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LARM OUT FOR "SHEENY BENNY” ‘Aoting Inspector O'Brien Wants t Him for the Murder of “Hob- | nail” Reilly, Killed Yesterday Morning. QUARREL WAS OVER . “CHINESE-EYED FLOSSIE.” Benjamin Adelson, Which Is the Right Name of Wanted Man, Quarrelled with the Dead ' Man Over the Girl. ‘Acting Inspector Stephen O'Brien, Chiet of the Detective Bureau, ordered @ genera! alarm to be sent throughout the country to-day for Benjamin Adel- gon, alias “Sheeny Benny,’ wanted for the murder of James Reilly, allaa "'Hob- nail” Rellly, in ¢ront of No, § Doyers wtreet, Bvidence that Adelson shot and Killed Reilly was obtained by Detective-Ser- geants John McCauley and Michael Galvin, whom Inapector O'Brien put on the case. They learned that there had deen a quarrel between :Adelaon and Reilly in the rear of a saloon at No, 2 Pell street early yesterday morning, ‘Nhe photographs of both men are in the Rogues’ Gallery, and the police say that the waloon is run by a man also mith @ criniinal record, The row was over a youns woman known as ‘Cihi- nese-Hyed Flossie,” though her real name Js Flossie Rich. Bhe had been living with “Quirk” De ‘van, @ crook and a pal of Reilly, She twas sitting in the I*ell street salgon with Adelson when Reilly entered It, Ammodiately there was a quarrel, and Adelzon left the piace, vowing that he would kil! Reilly, A few hours later the two met on Doyers street, and Rellly wae slain. When the doteotives found the girl yeslentuy oth her eyes wore Mack and ha showed other evideyoes of having Deon vrutajly beaten, Nevertheless she Confeewed utter Ignorance of tie killing, ‘Nhe description of Adelgon sent out of @ man twenty-five years old, 6 feet 41-2 incher tall, weighing 130 pounds and of nent appearance, though he usually re er ear ara eceenise 6 mouth larwe, He has ecars on ‘his loft and right tem: bas pa RiaTd si} i Bs we . 688 In the Rogues’ Galleys nt STOOD FOR BATH BUT NOT FIRE Mary Stolte, Twice Driven Into River. by Her Husband, 0b- Jeoted When He Heaved a Hot Stove at Her. After being twice chased Into the North River trom the New York Cen- tral lighter Mohawk by her husband, | Mary Btolte lost her temper when he threw a hot stove at her, and had him arrested, The husband, Oscar Voss, was held in $1,000 bail by Magistrate Barlow in the West Side Court to-day, Voss and the woman were married in Gweden a year ago while Voss was on) @ visit to the old country, Upon her arrival in the United States Mary Joarnod that Voss had another wife in San Francisco, Nevertheless she con- tinued to live with hin, although she! Tesumed her maiden name, Both were employed on the barge, which Is lying at the foot of West ‘Dhirty-sixth street. Vose spent several hours yosterday in the “power-houses” @long Tenth avenue, absorbing five-cont whiskey, When he fell aboard the barge | late in the afternoon Mary ventured to remonstrate with him, Voss tore off most of her clothes and in fear of her lifo she jumped into the river, Sho was ressued by the erew et @ tug lying alongside the barge, 'Yhe capain wont aboard the barge and got Her some clothing, When she was able to walk sie wont back to the bare, | Voss, In the meaniiny:, had disappeared, | He’ returned in about an nour and | Once more Cansed hey Into tue river, | {roa Waich the tugboat crew rescued | her aga Was ed to suninon | Vows aut Naw, alu when she hud d Giotning sne went back wt Noes had aceoi ed a fe Bperardace in tae mean Unie, When he returned ugain in the even- dng Mary refused io jump into the river, Bhe armed herself with a butcher knife and a coliection of kltonen ucen- lik and deiied hia did, Picking up the Iittle stove, whic! was ved hot, he heaved |. at her, 8: managod to dodge the ms Voss ted, leaving her to ex! dlaze that threatened to barge. The tugboat people formed a guard for her all night. and Vy ehe went fn search of a police He waited et the barge until Voss appeared and placed him under arrest. ‘The hands of the man were shockingly burned. Ho bad no defense to make dn the pole! court, See “eee FALLS 11 STORIES 10 HIS DEATH, While opening an tron shutter on the eleventh floor of No, 120 Crosby street to-day Max Edelman, se old, of No, 24 Eldridge street, a porter, lost his balance and plunged headlong to the pavement below, Nearly every bone in his body was broken by tho tall, ‘The boy was employed by David Co- hen & Co, monufacturers of |i ties’ walsts, who ocoupy the two top floors | of the building, He was Joking with) geyeral of the girls as he got upon al chalr to fling open the shutter, He ‘threw all his foree against It, and when {t gave way ho fell over the ledge. Many of tho young women employees fainted and had to be taken to their Marmes, The body of the boy fell within a few feet of Polleeman Pevor Nathan, of the Mulberry street station, who su Oied An ambulance from St, Vincent's Hos- The remains were taken to the erry street station-house, enteen years |! FIRES SHOTS AT MANY CHILDREN Strange Man Asks Boys to Pick His Pockets for Fun, and Then Sends Bullets Among Them. et ‘The police are searching for the man who wantonly shot fifteen-year-old John Fredericks, of No, 403 West For- ty-fourth etreet, after jokingly inviting him and some other boys to try their hands at picking his pockets, The shooting occurred at Forty- fourth street and Ninth avenue last night, ‘The man wantod {9 apparantly 4& young fellow dressed in e gray sult without an overcoat, and has u belt strapped around his walst in which he carries two revolvers, Hoe eaw the poys playing in the street and walking up to the crowd exgla:med: “Here, boys, see If you are any good @t picking vockots," at the same time he held back lis coat and displayed several] bills of emall denominations @ucking from hte waistcoat. The boya, falling into the spirit of the joke, came toward him and as they did wo discovered the revolvers, This frightened them and they ran away, Without a word the man opened fire upon the retreating crowd, The first bullet ftew wide, but the second wound- ed_young Fredericks in the cheek. Dodging across the east side of Ninth avenue tho man then ran north with a crowd at his heels, At Forty-elghth wtrret he ran into a crowd of small girls playing in front of No. 409, ‘There he stopped and fired both pistols At the pursuing crowd, but hit nobody, The pursuers and girls fled screaming, while the man, pointing one of his Weapons at the ground, fired Into the vement, and then bolted into the jouse At No, 400, Bella See, fourteen years old, of No, 422 West Forty-cighth street, notified the police of the West Forty-seventh street station and detectives entered No. 409 and other houses in the block and searched the neighborhood for an hour, They found no trace of the man, WEALTHY WIDOW BAILS COACHMAN “Will $400,000 Be Enough?” the Sergeant of Police Is Asked When Amount Needed Is Just a $100 Bill. Michael Dempsey. conchman for Mrs. Anna Fraser, a wealthy widow, of No, Gi Madison avenue, was arraigned In Jefferson Market Police Court to-day charged with having been impolite to the carriage agent at the Waldorf-As- | m torla Just evening. Dempsey had dt his mistress to the hotel, and was waldng for her when the agent told him to “move on," Dompsey replied In n voice that was net in keop!ng With politeness, accord- ing to the agent's way of ‘hinking, and he had Polleeman Hunt take him, curr! nd alt, to the ¥ 'Thirsioth Stree: Pol ation, When Mrs, Fraser learned that her coachman had been arrested she hur- ‘pled to the gtation-house, She found her horses blanketed and under guard fa doorman ti front of the station- mpsey was in a cell, Vhat's the bail for this man." Mrs, asked the Bergeant js under $100 ball," reviled the at real estate answer the pur- avenue for t an In court, #s home, KILLED IN BED BY GAS, Michael Kilroy Asp Michael Kilroy, plutform man, of he Manhattan Frevated system, was agpayxlated by escaping § to-day in his room tn the furnished f Armstrong, No. Hundred and ‘Twenty wan Accidentally yxinted, One think street, Kilroy went mile and to-das strong family: sr as usual last * of the Arm= 14 coming from e Into found Kilroy d — CENTRAL PARK SUICIDE, the room a ladward yor ty dying at the Pree syterion Has a result of well {nilicted wounda, He was employed by Wile was forced to by reason of tee in Street entrance, He is tweniy vears Old, cuink restded at No, 316 Hast Hignty- fore ayygyt, LIVES OF THIRTY Quick-Witted Passenger, For- merly a Motorman, Runs Through a Runaway Car and Shuts Off Electricity. MAN AT THE MOTOR HURLED FROM HIS POST. Elderly Woman So Thankful to Joseph Bulger that When All ls Over She Hugs and Kisses Him. Thirty passengers on a runaway trolley car of the Union Railway, bound ¢rom Bedford Park to Mount Vernon last night, undoubtedly owe their lives to the presence of mind of Joseph Bul- ger, of No, 1100 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn. Bulger, formerly a motor- man, ran through the car and shut off the electriooty after the car had gone @ mile through the principal street of Mount Vernon at the rate of forty miles an hour, The oar stopped between Third and Fourth avenues. It had barely missed a halt dosen vehicles and a hundred commuters who alighted from the 6,56 train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Luckily no one waa hurt. Two women passengers fainted from fright. After it was all over the passengers gathered around Bulger and showered ‘im with thanks, One man suggested that @ collection be taken up to buy Bulger @ presont, but he refused to al- low it. With tears streaming down her face, an elderly woman edged her way Unrough the crowd and kissed Bulger, “IT was on that car you stopped, and 1 want to anne you for saving my ” she oi fe," . "No thanks necessary, my good woman, I am glad I was able to be of service to you,” Bulger replied, The acctdant was due to the faot that the Motorman was thrown from the car by a lurch while attempting to shut an ene gate, His absence was not noticed until the conductor rang the bell twice to stop the car at a steep Incline at Ninth avenue, A cry of “The motorman ts off!” threw into a pantie all the passengers except Bulger, who ran forward, wrenched open front door which was fastened on t! outs.de ,shut off the power and applied the brakes, Although he Is a powerful man the car ran two blocks further before he could ston tt. FEARSCHOOLGIRL HAS ENDED LIFE Mamie Nealis, Aged 17, Falling of Promotion ‘with Class, Dis- appears, and Mother Believes She Has Killed Herself. No trace has yet been found of Mamie Nealls, the seventeen-year-olf echoolgir! who disappeared from her home, No, 1911 Madison a@venue, on Tuesday morning last, and to-day her mother sald ahe belleved the girl had made away with herself. Mamie went to Publle School No, 168, on West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, while her brothers, John and Daniel, went to Publle School No, 18% on Weat One Hundred and Sixteenth street, The boys were in the greduating clasa, and Mr. and Mrs, Nealls thought that thelr daughter was also in the gradu- ating class at her achool, It seems, however, that the girl had deceived her mother on this matter and was still a class below. The boys were graduated on Monday last, but the girl Gidn't. even gain promotion, Instead of. telling her parents about It she started back for @chool on Tuesday orning, but did not reach there, Noth- {ng has been yecn of’ her since, “When Mamie went away,” sald Mrs. Nealis to-day, "she wore only a blue sult, Bho left her furs home and also her pocketbook, in which she had $5, She/was a quiot «irl, loath to make friends and apt to be morose when things went against her, I am afraid her shame at having deceived us and then failing to even gain promotion was too much for her, I know her woll enough to know that she would make away with herself, and cannot holp be- Heving that she has done so, If she has not she need not fear to come home, for we have freoly forgiven her everything.” ‘A general alarin has been sent out for the girl, Mer father is a policeman at- tached to the Hast Sixty-seventh street station, ns BRIDGE FULL, WITH RUSSIAN TROOPS, Thirty Men and Horses Thrown Into Froxen River, Breaking ‘Through Ice—One Drowned, ST, PEVARSBURG, Feb, 2—The sus- pension fo spanning the Pontanka River collapsed early to-day while a de- tnohment of dragoons was crossing. |'Thirty men and horses were precipi |tated Into tho frozen river, together JWwith a naniber of cabs, wagons, &o. ‘The Ico wt that point belng weak, tho greatest excitement —prevalied, — but ry y help was forthcoaing and the | vic ume of the acctlent were rescued, avith phe oxception of one dragoon ‘The chains on both banks bivke, and HA a Bid ae AAS) ella lal) the briige fell body with the wholo toatl thereon at the time. The cavalry horses. territied, Jumpad over the rail of the bridge onto the lee, whioh gaye way | ‘The river Is narrow at that point, and! Ste Persona Injured by a Train tle moo managed to scramble ashore with the vgestance of ¥ ses of the acehlert The Montankn ie iy river six miles (Hong, Will sod with other waterwa ciading | canals, soul h 4 tie to drain. tie marshes of the Neve Riyer GRASH OF CARS Fourth Avenue Trolley Hurls Crosstown Horse Car {ror Traok, Throwing Down Pas- sengers, Breaking Windows. MOTORMAN SAYS HE LOST CONTROL OF THE BRAKES Vainly Signals Driver of Car tc Stop—Vehiole Carried Alony Sixty Feet by Force of the Collision, Tn @ collision between a Fourth ave: nue trolley car, bound south, end c Spring street crosstown horse, oar ‘bound west, to-day nine persons were #0 badly hurt that they had to be treatec by surxgons and taken home tn amu lances or to hcepitals, and a score 0 others suffered minor bruises and outs The Injured were: Cohen, Lewis, seventeen, of No, § ‘Willett street, Hirsohkopt, Max, forty-two, of No 18 Pitt sires, Mustachano, Tony, thirty, af No, % Broome street. O'Keefe, Timothy, twenty-five, of No. 960 Lorimer street, Brooklyn, Honsner, Max, nineteen, of No. 20 De lancey stremt, Singer, Morris, twenty-four, of 43 Faet Houston street, Btillner, Sophia, forty-five, No, 112 Suf- folk street, Zwilling, Dora, forty-three, of No, 1h Allen street, Driver Mistakes Signal, ‘The trolley ‘oar was coming feet, and because of the 'ce on the rails Rass inyesen lost control of the brakes. He signalled, sp he alleges, for the drive of the ‘horay car to stop, O'Kee’e miu took the gignal and whipped up hi. horses to ao ahead, The car got di rectly on the tmoka In front of the trolley, when it was struck full force oth horses were hurled from thei feet, and, struggling, they broke th traces that bound them to the car, The horse car was thrown from it: ress’ trucks and carried far down the street, The passengers, hurled fron their seats, fell In a heap screaming. with glass from the shattered windows falling about their heads and bodies. The conductor was pitched through o window of the horse car and fell on thx rails directly in front of the oncominu trolley car, He welzed the front of the car with his hands and was pushed ahead untll the motorman reached ove: the dashboard and pulled him to safety Passengers Flung to Floor. O'Keofe, the driver of the horse oar was hurled against an elevated road pillar and was uncongclous, With the exception of O'Keefe and Cohen ail o/ the injured passengers were sent © their homes, The two named were badly hurt and were taken to Gouvern- eur Hospital, After the accident the horses of the crosstown car began w wild run down the Bowery, They ran for several blocks before they were caught, Rasmussen was later arraigned in thc Tombs Court and held by Magistrate Pool in $1,000 ball for examination on Baturday, At the request of a repre- sentative of the New York City Rall- way Company the policeman who ar- raigned Rasmussen told the Court tha) none of the gers was seriously Injured and Rasmueion was paroled in the custody of the company's men, GROKER STAYS IN SEGLUSION He Bears Up Bravely Under His Affliction, but Will See Only " His Relatives and Most Inti- mate Friends. No Richard Croker nemiined in sectu- elon to-day with the body of his boy, Frank, at the family residence, No. 6 Hest Sgventy-fourth street, He re- celved none but his most Intimate friends, and will not ibe seen in public unth after the funeral, gihich will »¢ held to-morrow morning at 10.80 o'clock ‘rom the Church of St. Ignatius Loy- vla, at Elghty-fourth street and Park avenue, Rey. Father McKinnon, the pastor, will celebrate a solemn requiem tah mass, Arghbishop Farley will pro- nounce the benediction. John Room the undertaker In charge, has made ail his plans for the funeral, which will be very largely attended, Father Ducey, of St, Leo's, called ait the Croker home timciay, He spent neany twe hours with Mr, Croker, who foels tho keenest grief over the un- thmely death of this boy. But the stern old ctleftain of Tammany shows no signs of breaking down, “From the reports in some of the papers," sald John Fox, President of the | Demooratic Clind, to-day, “it might be jInferred that Mr. Croker hag become ;decrept!, Nothing could be further | from the truth, “Mr. Croker's hair is whiter than tt was when he went away. but he is still a strong and vigorous man. better color in ‘his face than he has shown In years. His sorrow ov er the death of Frank Is deep, but ho 13 the kind of a man who can’ suffer and not show I." No plans have been made for Mr Croker's return to Ireland, but he has told he friends that he will not remain long In New York, He may be accom- med from New York by one/of his j old frienda ——— | Hurling a Street Car Fitty Peet, | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb, 2,-8!x | pessons were Injured, four probab’s fatally, tonight when a Grand Rapids ‘and Thdlana” pa {into A sirget car [street crossing, tonsed Atty heer, nger train crashed the West Leonass The was streot car uw RE OME eh SATE CT) Cee Thee ah eps ee) OM Le Cae P Tee My e Wye yy He has a} time you use flavor with ALL GROCERS. Wash Dress Fabrics, Special attention is directed to the large and varied assortment of Novelties, now being shown, included in which are the fash- fonable Shrunken Linen Sultinge, dull finish, in white and colors; also, French Gazines in plain colors and etripes---this fabric confined to Arnold, Constable & Co,.., ..,,,,Price 6c, yard. 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