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‘And He Would Have a Commissioner Holding Office for Life. MANY ADVANTAGES Little Faith in Ability of Law- yers and Wall Street Mlen to Remodel Force. (Now that the Committee of Nine has begun work on the problem of reform- tng the Police Department, William & ‘every comes forth with a ¢ew remarks wlong the same line, It Js not likely Mhat the Committee of Nine will seek the advice of William 8. Devery, nor fie it Mkely that he will pine away over their omission, but, nevertheless, he in~ @tats that he knows more about police affairs than the Committee of Nine can ever hope to learn, His plan of reliet 1s the formation of f& State constabulary for all cttles of the first and second class in the State, to be under the guidance and control of a State Police Commissioner at Albany with a uniformed chief of polloo in each city, The State Com- missioner should have his possition for Ufe, removable only by the Governor ‘upon the establishment of charges of misconduct, William 8, Devery maintains that by his plan the State of New York would acquire a chaln of eMolent and trained police departments stretching from ‘the ocean to Lake rie, Necessity for calling out the militia In case of strikes and riots would be done away with, while rural communi- ties would be given the advantage of expert detective service in murder mysteries or other cases of crime, No Use for Politicians, “That's the only way you can get the po-lice force out of politics.” as. serts William § Devery, ‘Give the Btate Commissioner power to bring criminal proceedings against any poll- * telan or district leader or onganization foader that tries to steer a po-llceman into doing something ocfooked and You've got the politicians’ hands tied, ‘When you got the hooks of the poll- tictans off the po-lHce force you will Mave a force of clean, honest men olig their duty, They oan't do tt now, “A soheme like I have framed up would be a good thing for New ors, | Buftado, Rochester, Syracuse and every ‘other city in the State that has a pa: Yce force. They have their troubles as } Well as Now York, but they don't make such a holler about it.” “Don't you think your plan would bulla up a gigantic: politicat machine that would be of use to the party con- trolling the State?” William & was asked, “Not for a minute,” was the reply. “All that you'd have to do Js to get @ high-class man for State Commis- sioner, give him a life Job and give him @ salary that he could afford to work for, The law ought to be framed up 80 that there wouldn't bo any shifting of po-licemen from one city to another, mean that each po-lice force should be held in its own city, except in cases of tiots and sirikes, when men could be walled jn from other cities, In New York they might have a Deputy State Commissioner, but the force should be directly under a uniformed Chief, who das gone through the Department from the pavement up, Looking for a Life Job, “A po-liceman Is a po-liceman, like a Danker iis a banker or a preacher {s a preacher or a lawyer is a lawyer. Men KO on the police force to make {tt thee work as long as they live, They cough ‘up their little old 2 per cent of thelr pay for a pension, and they look ahead to that pension when ghey retire, hese gentiomen that are making hes about the po-tice force have ut headpicces for finance and law, ut when it comes to knowing anything about the po-lice they are shy, lf a Durch of po-licemen Would ge together and send a committee down in Wall Street to reform the Stock Exchange there would be n roar from the banketg, put some po-licemen know more about Wall sirect finniei-rs than the financerg Know about the po-lice business, “The first roll out of the box they taik about enlisting po-lcemen fo Nears, Ike soldiers are enlisted, Would be all to the bad. Unless you give po-licemen a reasonable cinoh on a life gob tiey would go through thelr en- etment Lke!an automobile through a pie wagon. Il would be a case of get all in sight while you're gettin’. In fites, homicides and cases where the po- Heeman had the run there wouldn't. be uch left behind if the men knew that they, was something el N » to work at y p Tt you put any hurdles in his way make him reach tn all directions, Met No Sherlock Halmes, “And they want a law so they can fire detective sergeants like you'd fire a window washer Want authority to hive he: 1 she-detectives out of law. off banks and business colleges. There's nothing Into tt. Twas ® policeman fv twentyelve years and 4 Aever ein avross a Sherlock’ Holmes or ‘a Itaffies, “Ninety-nine robberies out of a huns “More Than All Other Newspapers Combined.” LEGAL ADVICE SOCIETY of the United States, 32 Broudway, New York, Jan, 21st, 1905 To the Publishers of The World; We advertise frequently for canvassers, have tried yorlous newspapers, and find that we get more results from one advertisement in The World than in all the other journals combined, Evidently The World is the best advertising medium in New York, na well as, in our opinion, the most perfect newspaper, JOHN W. HAMILTON, President Legal Advice Society, oy + OFF COl the | 3| Baker at the Raymond Flats, No. + 5 are. committed’ by prafessional 08, ve’ It ls a detective's business to ever ‘tet “in tradi That's way to catch thieves, ‘Fou into a place that has ee the robber by @ n #0 Vasideg detective work on were all men who Duslneas oF yeata al 0 0 dred thiev know the, only can't «i . oar ing a atri tal Pourth of duly, More Common Senee: Needed. “Kt to the anvoltion of every intel gent po-lloeman to bea detective, Tako Qway ihe chance of winning out on ambition and you pee & bad po-lice- man out of him, Alka po-liceman or a detective needs is comman sense, He don't have to bo a college graduate or be able to tell how bong # ‘would take’ an automobile to go from here to the moon with gasoline sellin’ at 9 cents a gallon, They've mot a clvil-service in amination for po-licemen that is giving Ug tissue paner cops, “When I went on the force I was re tele ee aehoaee Tee jloatoes these days that do! i n't _welgh Bo more than @ broiler in @ ballet. It atron| man t it. Ti f jan to posure of a po-liceman's work, don't like po-licemen now for strengt! | &8 Much as they do for high f 8. ‘That's the reason why the sick llet keeps about 2% per cent. of the force | off duty every winter, — » “We ought to have 1,500 more po- Ucemen In New York right away. ¢ force \s no r than it waa at the time of conse ton, but New York is, growing at ‘the rate of 100,000 people a | year and we have a couple of hundred thousand translents to handle every day. y vi8h Mr. McAdoo enough po- Mcemen they’! get better results. Pooh-Poohe Trafflo Squad, “These traife regulations are all right. | but all the equestrian statues that Mr. McAdoo has put wp around the Worth monument and Herald Square and along Broadway and Pi Row ought to be yale en Let Nias pass Ailer regulating traffic, make every vehicle catry a numbered and give the po- ee power to take the number of any \driver that gets fresh, turn It into the station-house and have the captain sum- mon the driver and his boss to court. You wouldn't need any horseback po- Neemen getting In the way of street care, “There's lots of talk about the 'Sys- tem' In the department. Give me a in and I'll make the ‘By look ke a crippled Chinaman caught be: tween the lines in a Yale-Princeton foot- ball earns. When [ was Chit Police T didn't have a chance, I was Inter- fered with all the time, With a State Rink ‘ofice in’ MRubetry “ntrect and Shief's ice in Mul tired to interfere, the Chief could hand him a swift kick on the ankle, “With a Btate never ‘have to call out the In rloth or strikes, handled right can bre never fire a shot. from rtrike duty a lot of young M that belong to labor unions would join, where they can't now, From Pavement to Chief. "If we had a State po-lice force, whenever there was a big murder mya- tery or robbery in a small place, de- tectives could be sent from the nearest city of the first or second class to } | | | | work on It at the expense of the j county in which the orlme was commit. ted. We would get better res we do now, I was twenty-five the force, I worked my way avement to the office of Chief and | jad to study the vo-lHoe business to do iit. This State po-lice plan is the only may, to Knack out the political drag “Supposing,” it was suggested, “that we should eleot a Governor who could be reached and who would depose an | honest State Commissioner and put in | a crook?" ‘ | _“T was born and raised in this State,” was the reply, “and I never recollect ; that we elected a Governor who could | be reached," POLICE IN HUNT. "FORA Z. BAKER | Seek to Discover if Artist Knows) the Whereabouts of Pretty, Helen Newell, Who Is Missing from Home. | \ | ‘Through the efforts of Evening World reporters Alfred Z, Baker, the artist, for whom pretty Helen Newell, daugh- ter of Peter Newell, is sald to have left her home in Leonia, N. J., has been lo- cated, He !s stopping with a friend in | the Raymond Apartment Hotel, No, 42 East Twenty-elghth street, and to-day | the place ts ‘being watched by Central | OMce Detectives Jackson and Doolady, | who have orders to interrogate Baker ag to the whereabouts of the young woman, Peter Newell, the well-known magazine illustrator, has been notified and ds anxjous to confront the man whom he accuses of luring away his daughter, i} When Helen Newell left Leonia lant) Satunlay, {t has been learned, she mado inquiries concerning a place shat] sha knew only as the Raymond, | On| Saturday night a young girl answering her description came and asked 183) Weat One Hundred and Bleventh street, Harlem. Thé employees at this place say Whe girl finally decided to try the Raymond Apartments in Bast Twenty: el@hth street, | Inquires by Fyening World reporters | proved that Baker had been at the} | Raymond apartments as late as 3 | terday forenoon, According to Manager Caldwell and. the switchboard operator of the Ray-! mond, Baker had been stopping for several days with his friend, a Dr, Cowles, who had bachelor apartments there, Yesterday noon the two went out together and have not returned since, according to the hotel people. Privr to Saturday, the hotel people sald, Baker had been receiving numer- ous express packages from yanlous stores, Tle did not stay there long, | some days Just coming in for his mail, they sald. Who or what Dr, Cowles Is no one veemed to Know, as he regis- tered with no initials and gave nobody | any intimation of his business. At his former addr in the Hat- fleld apartments in East Twenty-ninth street, It was sald that Dr, Cowles was | an Insurance company examiner, me a JUDGE MURRAY CONFIRMED. ALBANY, Feb, 2.—-The Senate to-aay confirmed the nomination of Charles | H. M oT ban Judge of the ate ree we would eats Militia |. ‘being dropped into water, dissolved and AYS ODELL Ex-Governor Believes Commissioner Should Control Dismissals. HAVE MORE POWER| Judictal Interference, He Says, Prevents Proper Assertion of Authority, "I am not holding any seances here on legislative or other matters, but If the members of the Legislature want my views I'll give them freely,” Former Gov, Odell. fraeh from New- burg, 90 expressed himaelf at the Fifth Avenwe Hotel to-day when asked if he was in town for tha purpose of framing up new legislative measures, He said: *T am not the Jeyislature, Tt is for the Legisiature alone to legis! ‘The former Governor had something Interesting, too, to say about the Po- Nee Department, "I am Jn favor of granting the head Of the Police Department absolute au- thority,” sald Mr, Odell, “I am also in favor of a limited term of service for policé captains in command of precincts, These captains like the Com- misaloner. should be held wholly re- sponsible for police conditions, and the courts should not interfere; that re- ®ponsibility might be shifted,” Shake-Ups Are Futile, “I obeerve that Senator Relnos has been studying police conditions also and that he suggests placing the depart- Ment on @ military basis, I don't quite understand what he moans by a ‘mili- tary basis,’ but I would certainly favor sending police precinct commanders to precinota for a defintte and positive term, “Keep the captain in the precinct, and if he goes wrong punish him or dismiss him, Shake-ups, so called, ef- fect nothing, They accomplish nothing but diseatiafaction and are in my judg- ment a direct blow at discipline, The Impression, too, prevails thet these shake-ups and transfers are not always done for the ‘ of the service, “Will legisl affecting the Police Aaeer tment be bad this winter?” was were mer private citizen here to attend only to my duties as chairman of the Republican State Committee.” BOY OF 14 FACES MURDER CHARGE Young Manzetta Sobs in His Father’s Arms When Brought Into \Court for .Killing of Another Boy in Street Fight. In ‘the Chiktren's Court to-day a boy of fourteen years, @obbing in grief and terror, was arraigned and remanded to the coroner on @ charge of murder. He was Lindo Mansetta, and as he was ‘brought into court and met his father he threw himself with a scream {nto his father’s arms and, sobbing "IT didn't go to do it! I didn’t go to Kill him,” clung in terror with his anne about his futher’s neck until he was removed by force to be arraigned, Later he was allowed to walk beside his father as far as the “'L'' station on his way downtown, ‘I'he father was 80 overcome, however, that, at the sta- tlon, he left the boy to the police and folbowed on a later car, Mangetta haa been in the country but a few months, He and his victim, Ulisso Alleva, represent two distinct types of the race, Alleva, who was sixteen years old, was slightly bullt, studious, hard-working and quiet in manner, He worked In his father's store at No, 112 Mulberry street, and In rooms above lived the Manzettas, Lindo {a coarse-featured and sullen, Ho hae refused to work, though his father supports the family as a day Jaborer, The two boys became frien but. “elashed,'' as boys will, and in & fight m Monday Mansetta was knocked down, He was twitted for this by on- Jookers and sald to have replied with a threat to kill Alleva, Yesterday he bought a knife, a dan- serous weapon, with a long blade hooked like a pruning knite, Last night the boys met In front of Allleva's storu. | There was a quarrel and a “mlx-up.'! ‘Then Alleya fell to the walk with a terrible stab wound in the groin. He was unconscious when the ambulance arrived, but recovered at the Hudson Strect Hospital long enough to identify Mangzetta, who had been arrested as this assailant, Manzetta at first denied the charge, but after Alleva had died broke down and admitted the stabbing, He denied any intent to Kill, “He's just a greenhorn.” sald Alleya's father. "Maybe he didn't know any better,” ee $18,891,419 FOR STATE EXPENSES ALBANY, Feb. he annual appro- priation bill was Introduced in. prelim- inary form in the Assembly to-day by Chairman Rogers, of the Ways and Means Committee, In an explanatory statement Mr. Rogers reported the total of this year's bill at $18,891,419, as com- pared with last year's total of 17,991,330, an Apparent increase In direct appropri ations of over $900,000, ‘The re-appropriations are less by about $70,000, The chief tiem in the In- crease ts $399,840 for the Department of Education — ——_— Fresh Air in Tablets, Fresh-alr tableta are a preparation discovered by a French selentist, He discovered that he could combine cer- tain chemicals Into a tablet which, on gave forth pure oxygen, at me, 1’ 4 "Prue, | a ee see “AGED P Nor ag oun AG we Loos . = I vont know HOW STRONG Tami Kot HOW POLICE HUNT FOR THE LONE BANDIT Inspector O’Brien Says He Is Doing Every- thing He Can. That the Woers highwayman, for whose capture The World offers §1,000 reward, will in all likelihood ehoot one or more citizens accidentally is the fear of Inapector of Police Btephen O'Brien, the new head of the Detective Bureau, The Inspector doesn't consider the man © skilled crook, but one who belongs In the same category as the fool who handles firearms with the recklessness that ends with the explanation when somebody has been Killed, “I didn't mean to ehoot,”@or "I didn’t know it was loaded," “What are you doing, Inspector O'Brien, to capture this Woers hold- up man?" was asked at Police Head- quarters to-day by a reporter of The Evening World, who explained that the interrogation was not prompted by any baiting motive. “What am I doing?" repeated the in- epector, "Everything that a man can do, who is anxious to do his duty and protect life and property. I have men Alstributed !n a logical way on the case and not the lightest clue comes to this office that is not followed to the end, Of course, you do not expect me to tell you what clues we have nor the ines along which we are working nor {€ we suspect any particular man, That would be a foolish thing on my part to reveal and if such a request was made T would laugh at it. Wants to Put Him In Cell, “However, there !s much to It-no man In New York would be better pleased to get this fellow than I, I don't mean to arrest him myself or to have the credit for it, but to know that he has been put out of business. I am afraid that he will kill somebody before he stops. He will be arrested In time, He cannot get away, but will we be able to get him before he shoots somebody? That 1s the question, and {t cannot be answered too soon to sult me, i “If somebody ts shot It will, not be an act of premeditation on this young fel- low's part, He Isn't out to kill, and when the case is closed we will prob- ably find that he has been making these raids more for the sensation to be had from it than anything else. "f am pretty thoroughly convinced that our man is a tyro ac the trade he has taken up, He has got very tile morey go far, and in most of his tricks he bas les any quantity of plunder alin by him—stuff that he might have taken away without any more “trouble or in- convenience than It cost to move off with the money, A trained crook wouldn't pass up $5,000 worth of jew. elry.” “Money has to g9 \ 4 pawnshop to get rid of Jewelry, and that's where the police foanie in,” was suggested, “Don't you think, Inspector, that the fact that this fellow only goes after me would Indicate that he js a traine crook-—one wise in hig generation an the ways of the police?” Crook Takes All He Can, "No, 1 don't,’ said O'Brien, “A crook, as my experience runs, usually tries (0 [get off with as much as he possibly jean, ‘They figure that it Isn't wise to | carry the piteher to the well too often, | Besides, another thing that argues that this Woergz fellow Is a tyro is the bold way he goes about it, A crook wants to do things just as quietly as possible, but our young friend walks up to a door and says to the people he 1s going to rob, ‘Here Lam, ‘Take a, good look going to rob you, olor, but How many peor tells no tales, but a crook st id OLICE “Just ACTORINE” b BY ca Kf Bia dase Le La berfbabbintmreaieh: . ENENG aa 4 LiKE A FEATS OF Commissioner McAdoo's physical ex- amination for aged and decrepit In- spectors wasn't the gigantic success, ; from the Commissioner's point of view, \that was expected. If Mr, McAdoo | | Wants to get rid of some of the unl- | | formed gray heads he wip have to hit! upon some new device, for the bunch yesterdna turned out to be a lot of acrgbaly and professional strong men, Tt 4@ ourrently reported that when In- Spector Druhan, the firat to be placed upon the griddle, entered the examin- ation room, he grabbed a lead puper | Welght, bit it in ‘half and then yelled | | for an entree of pigiron, ‘The surgeons | calmed the Inspector down som jt and after assuring him that a vaudevitie Performance was not necessary, asked him to reveal hisright bicep, The In-/ night angle and there was a ripping of cloth as the bunch of muscles tore its way through his uniform, Does a Lightning Stunt, “Can you lift a man?” moekly asked | one ofthe surgeons, "Can I?" roared the Inapector, and) gratfoing the cler of the Board, he) swung him twice around his head, it {a reported, and then deposited him in his seat again in such*a position that the | clerk was able to go on with his write | ‘ng at the exact place that he quit aj) minute before, | “How is your ‘heart?’ ventured | | another surgeon, reaching for a atetho- moope, “In the right vlace, pal,” answered Druhan, and the doctor confirmed him a moment later, informing the Board that the thumps of the Inspector's heart! through the stethoscope reminded him of his boyhood days when he played the bass drum in the Silver Cornet Band of Painted Post, N, Y, “Can you take a hurdie?" asked an- other member of the Board, “I eats them,’ replied the Inspector, and he dashed seven times around the room, leaping over tables and chairs until his portly, form was merely a blur to the visions of the medical men, | When he stopped a surgeon rushed | forward to get his respiration and another reached for this pulse, “Normal!"' they chorused in disgust, ‘and Inspectan Druhan walked out, | the examination being conelyded Inspector Blbert O, Smith is not or- dinarily a spectacular person, but it ts waid that he entered the examination wom on his hands and when requested to resume his feet did so backward, Smith as a Jumper. “Gentlemen, I'm a pretty old man," sald the Inspector In a feable voice, und then to prove it he jumped in the alr, cracked his he ogether thre tlmes and sald If the Board really want- ed to see him do {t he would make it four, The Board didn't want to see It, so they asked the Inspector about his general health, “Never betier, | | { | he sald; "Just look, INSPECTOR before the Roard of Police Surgeons | anector swung his mighty right into a HK AGED INSPECTORS DO STRONG MEN. +—_——_—— Graybeards Whom Commisstoner McAdoo Regards as Decrepit Said to Have Performed Acrobatic Feats Before Board of Surgeons, at this,” and setting his legs rigid he leaned forward and toucied his hands to the floor, repeating the performance elght times, until the Board called him off, They examined the ancient heart vf ithe ancient Smith and found It beat- ing tke @ trip-hammer, They tested his lungs and sald they were ay hard aaa football, They put him, over the hurdles and the took them like \e~ chaser, When they told him he hg NH Hike eg the Ins ir picked up bounds of old records and rals Up from his houlder fifteen tim thing any harder for Cortright Gets a Chance. Inspector Cortright went in ordeal grinning, The old waterant oat a ‘thought he had a stack of poltce uty left in thm, and the board 80 oo when he ot through, Inspector cee is entered the examination room 8 sf relone @nd looked around for ae fo break, The Board, which waa ig a trifle disgusted, alsed him up 84 @ possible wotim, but the Inspector read {t in their eyes, and proceeded to convince ‘them of their mistake. They ikea him to jump over a chair, The inspector ined four of them up in a bunch and took the entire four trom 4 stand, He came down as Ughtly as a Ke on a rug, Te WAS @ strip of carpet on th Inspector tell down on it loor nnd th in ckward without even crackl. hi head righ lege bate sted tt around his | Then he threw his he lobe of his left er his shoulder, twi heck ond scratched ti ona, the Bole ce his shoo, ) the contortioniat, ti that," sald the In tor ‘when, i nes Untangled himeelf, “and 1 can ehow you aN oat if eet, ike oar In" form they examined Nhs vent nnd ‘other oncans and sent him forth vindicated. Kane Takes the Hurdle When Inspector James Kan Queens, came {i . Ticked thelr iipa with cine, as , they saw one in m, The Inspector waddled to “the of the floor, stood erect for w » wave @ leap forward, landed ‘omach, rebounded to his feat fo attention with hand at Out brea! ertion, of si hungry for a viet! pune Uke @ hogs Wits 2 m @. jut he never can jump,” said one of the surgeons, so they put him to the hurdles, The Inspector took the hurdles, but not with the grace of a Cortright ora Druhan, Cold truth demands that {t be recorded that he was puffing Ike & xrampus when he finished, But he was strong, and he proved it by num- erous feats that would have been hard for a man twenty years hig junior, When they put Kane to the test of touching the floor with his hands the Inspector fell down, for stomach Stood in the way and ref to b shoved aside. The Inspector tried hard, but the nearest he could get was two feet from the carpet. However, he of- ‘ered to do ft backward, and would have {f the board would have allowed it, but the board would not, They saw a pos- sible victim In Kane, and they didn't want to forget that he couldn't touch the floor with his hands dn more brillant feats, The Inspectors are all anxiously awa't= Ing the verdict of the board, especially Kane, who feels that that single faill- ure is a blot on ‘his police record. 1¢ Commissioner McAdoo wants to get rid of his gray-headed inspectors he will pave to give them something beside a physical examination. for the five that the tests yeaterday could Hek any eleven men dn the department, regard lesa of welght, age or size. auch ¢ of the si he has In his hand lev “Well, the ieatifle: made In this fellows w conelusive evidence (hat |iusked to look at They are matances look at pron at the gun at them?" we have kofs pretty people he part ot him the a“ ibe ut the thong that is worrying me he handles his) gun veld tip, in the nn Dr, Talbot, whom hi My’ offlee Yesterday Ry with me, and he sald that w held up he was not so muc the young fellow as he was might shoot accidentally, He sale \the thief hand wobbled from de 1 what he feared every mon by was in e) . case j ni fo would be shot and that it would be done acadentall | That's the W with kids who go Jout on these hold-up jobs, ‘They got hervous, The gun ts’ tn the ‘hand ‘A finger is on tho trigger, The victim Aa Be. thoroughly cowed’ and willing to submit to any demand, but he may Pen RT oe a ee Con My eee CUR Ore yme unfortunate move and the 8 pistol goes off, That's y of all such Gases,” iat do you think of the theory that this robber belongs to the uptown cliss—that he ls not the Kind to be found in the Bowery? "ideation doesn't count with me in cases, T could introduce you to \ thausand crooks Who have fine voices ind use better Knglish and bétter gram. sory." or To Make Cloth Waterproof, Cloth may be rendered waterproof by | ubbing the under side with a lump ot) peeswax untll the surface presents a. uniform white or grayish appearance, DO SANDOW ST H) bruised, some bleeding from re | Bellif's place, began a serenad is! han walked half a block away, when a the | than a good Miny college profes: | Brougwe mig MAMMA AND MID : Hoesy HoRse TWO SHOT IN RAGE RIOT Neapolitans and Sicillans Meet In Furious Battle and Polloe Have Hard Time to Quel Them. Eleventh etreet and First avenue early to-day, and when the smoke from their more who had battied had been beaten back by the police two men lay on the sidewalk shot and thirteen others, some ‘ata wounds, were in the clutches of the police, The others, many of whom left trails of blood, took to thelr heels and nought refuge in the neighboring tene- ‘ments, Seldom have the police had a more furlous riot, to quell, for the Sicilian hates the Neapolitan, and last night when fifty or more Neapolitans gath- ered in the liquor store of Vito De Bel- ila, No, 174 First avenue, to have a housewarming, the place just having opened, the Sicilians, strong in number and bitter in hate, went forth on mur- der ‘bent, Policeman Stops Singing, With guitar and mandolin the Nea- politans made mualc and sang until long after closing hours, Hearing the sounds of revelry in the store Policoman Mona- han, of the Fifth street station, knocked t the door, which waa locked. He called out: “It ls time for closing, that noise!’ The Noapolitans filed out into tho atreet, and standing in front of De Mona- No more of gmail boy ran up to him breathless and excited, “Phe Sloilians are coming to kil) the singers!" he sald, Gang of Fifty Fighters. 4 Hardly had Monahan telephoned be- fore @ company of fifty or more men filed silently down the street, heeded for the liquor store in front of which the Neapolitans were still singing their Itallan love sonnets, First there was {and interruption as snawhbaliz wel hurled into the ranks of the aliy Then there came a shower of rock id then revolvers were drawn, Shot after shot was fired, until the street rang | with the report of revolvers. The min | oame together with a clash, some way- ing revolvers, some stilettoes, some clubs, und some used thelr fists, ‘The reserves ran in among the fight- ing men, but It was no easy matter to part them, as they struggled to Mel ‘and injure, ‘The police after a hard fight beat back the opposing aldes. Some of them took to thelr heels, A number ot the Neapolitans took refuge in De Bellis's saloon, barred and barricaded | dcors and windows, The pollee knocked | to be admitted, and when they were re- ‘used they beat down the doora and | rushed In, Hand-to-Hand Battle. There was a hand-to-hand ‘battle tn the dark. The police beat the men Into ‘submission and arrested De Bellls and six companions. On the atreet they came upon Lione Nenervo, a coal dealer, of No, 316 Forty-fifth street, shot through the | head, and Angello Labella, a coal dealer, {of No. 128 Rast Fourteenth street, who | was groaning with a bullet wound In hia leg. ‘These two men were taken to Bellevue Hospital, ears oaidamippess neers GERMAN PRINCE IMPROVES. POTSDAM, Feb, 2.—A bulletin fasued | to-day states that the general condition 'Phis method, it is sald, renders the cloth | of Prince Eltel-Friedrich ls good, ‘The waterproof, wa to aie, practically leaving it pore although still | highest temperaturs boulieta ‘waa 98) aud since Neapolitans and sictilans fought at | Now, revolvers cleared and one hundred. or POLICE TURNS TABLE! ae Intoxication, Says Of- ficer Assaulted Hin man Knocked at Door, pi After Patrolman Brophy, of One Hundred and Twenty-fitth Btation, had made charges of into tign and disorderly conduct agats Atgust Muller, forty-three. years old baker, of No, 1307 Amsterdam uM \n the Harlem Court to-day, the) tabl were turned, and Muller made | “ charges against Brophy of @4 breaking into his home, as well toxlcation, i Miller had a black eye contused face when arraigned on | charges, Brophy had several te and contustons on hie face Plaining the marke of hia_ polloeman sald that Muller him, when he went to arrest 416 o'clock this mornin, Muller denied the charge, that he and his wife were i hight, and left the ayvels at 118 4 to go home. At One Huhé 1 ‘Dwenty-aixth street and ” avenue they saw Brophy the corner talking to a wouen, BM Muller alleged, was intoxtonted,! as they passed “butted"’ into : and told him to be careful, the patrolman welzed dim, broke away and went home About 3 o'vlock Brophy and patrolman knocked at his door, Mmushed his way in, and seised the throst, Both n n mrabbed him, and pull street, and ag Brophy, hel further” alle ie 4 a in at the face, and Muller the station and locked uns Intoxication and disorder! “Lf this ts trae,” the. © is ‘the moat, timate ot ran chisens ot this clty, i th force thelr way Into ‘priv aasanlt ti panta,"' Muller ‘and tol witnesses to court to-n and his wife were also witnesses bo FAME DETECT 1 4 i ayy Man Who Posed as One rome’s Staff Is ; Attempting to Collect BI mail from a Woman, } When Superintendent two detectives of the Sootety Prevention of Crime raided disorderty house in Weat street early to-day they custody a nian wlio, one of mates sald, posed as rep trict-Attorney Jerome's office. tried to get $10 from her of arresting her if she did him the money, . The man said he was Grace, of No, 4% West #0 street, He was about twen years old and a Mexican, © pockets were found a cheap ba tered Detective,” several pat mth ond fake detective agency 6 was locked up in the West eniii atreet station 4s & eu json, y In the house Superintondent: tock and his two detectives Anna Brown, who was jbeing the proprietor, and ten 1: All were locked in the West seventh street station, GRATEFULTOCUTI |For Instant Relief and Speedy 6 of Raw and Scaly ee os Itching Day and Wight, es ee “T wish you would publish ter so that’ others suffering as I Bay maybehelped, For monthaawfiuleon covered my face and neck, bi ing, itching terribly in an | breaking open, and running bl | matter, I had tried many, reme but was growing worse, when I | with Cuticura, The first application gave nie instant relief, and whem Dl used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, | was Sota ntetel yeu reoy (sig Nellie Vander Wiele, Lakesid ‘The Russian-Japancee wat AR ds