The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1906, Page 16

lished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 6 Park Row, New Tort Y Watered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. The Limitations of Lawyers. Otto Rosalsky is an influential citizen, an ex-judge, a district leader of spirit and independence and an able lawyer. the police trial of Schmittberger, Commissioner Bingham interrupted | his appearance as counsel by saying “Rats!” and “Make it short!” He was enraged when the “Commish” said to Schmittberger: “We would have finished much quicker if you had left your legal friend at the | door.” Both men were right. It is natural for a lawyer to want things done fawyer-fashion and precedent shape. It is natural for a Commissioner | to want to get at the facts quickly. If every policeman on trial could | drag out appeals like a Patrick murder casz, what would become of the | At a certain happy period there were in colonial Vermont 20,000 people with | © m0 lawyer among them. A murderer was about to be hanged one day when some} >? “Mr. Butt-in” found an old law-book. “See here!” he gasped. “It says he must | ‘De tried by a jury of his peers.” rs They were law-abiding people. The committee began drawing a jury. The; /. efowd murmured at the delay, but Ethan Allen got on a stump and said: “You've! come to see a hanging, and you shall see one. If nobody else is hanged !'ll be} hanged myself rather than disappoint you.” An hour later the murderer, tried by a jury in legal manner and found¢guilty ‘on sufficient sworn evidence, was hanged, : Bthan Allen never heard of the nine gods of war, but he once swore » “By the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” Five Indians danced to amuse the guests in the New York residence of a escendant of the Stuyvesants, Indians were no novelty to old Peter Stuyvesant,_ who was Governor of the colony 259 years ago. = Lest We Forget. A trial for manslaughter growing out of the Ifoquois Theatre dis- “ater is in-progress in Chicago, and the captain of the General Slocum is on trial in New York. Justice, leaden heeled, is still on the trail after two years, That is Something. * __ More to the purpose than even the prospect of some one’s going to | jail is the reminder that these belated trials give the public a chance to "ask whether any of the old conditions of negligence still obtain. + Suppose inspectors were to descend unheralded on all the theatres ‘and assembly halls, as bank examiners descend on banks, to make a thorough inspection. Would they find the safeguards as rigidly en- forced as they were just after the scare? Would the fireproofed scenery Stand their test?. Would the safety exits open easily? Is the fire drill efficient? Is the upper gallery overcrowded? Mr. Jerome seems to have evidence that the local street railway octopus “hired “eurities by the hundred million without trying to cheat trolley-cripplea | of fair damages for lost legs and arms? 4 caeaaeat The Chinatown Disgrace. 3s Chinatown an integral part of New York City, subject t and within its jurisdiction? Or is it a No Man’s teaene silly murder and thuggism? : The pistol fight growing out of the Chinese New Year’s celebratio in which two men were killed and two others fatally wounded, is another disgraceful episode in the long record of feud lawlessness. These out- breaks ‘of highbinder violence have becom: “Towed to continue? e ascandal. “Why are they al- Are the authorities powerless to cope with the handful of thugs who Naturally he was pained when, at! ‘Jurors by the year” as well as Inwyers. Wasn't it enough to issue watered se-| tharaday Evenings Januers 25, 1900: “Skiddoo!” — A Group ci Oddities By Je Campbell Cory. ; Tn Picture i} T= men form the nearest modern approach to feudal chivalry, They wre the: famous Bikaneer camel- men of India. They are warriora trained qs such from early youth, and retain all the traditions of medineval Knighthood. ‘They are almost the only armored force left on earth, ‘They dress in chain-mall, with helmet and visor, phated leg-plecés or greaves and breastplates. Their weapons are sclmeter and lance. ‘The camels they ride are of the “ractmg’’ variety, as different. ftom the ‘ordinary camel as a race-horae different from a Percheron, ‘Their uni. form, apart from armor, ts sage green and yellow tn coloz. ‘The tilustrations are from the London Sphere, The latest novelty in vegetables js a black potato, which has been sent to - a well-known seed merchant of London. This eccentric tuber came from the Congo, and is said to haye an excel- lent flavor. t is espectally recom- mended for ornamental cooling and in salads, $ “Itallan prisons got so full this year thet the Government had to pardon some of the occupants in order to make room for delinquents crowded out. Since last August, 1,596 prisoners have been pardoned and 3,072 have had their sentences re- duced, | ‘This mif}d-4ooking. Berlin's new Cache bespectacled persoa dral is not onty lighted throughout by electricity, but the same power tp used for ringing the peal of bells, an@ the organ {1s op- erated by a@ nine horse power moton with the Mongolian features und rather commonplace aspect is profeseedly ire reincarnation of a very holy delt: Buddha—and looked upon by T'b- etans with « rever- ence amounting to awe. He is the Tash! Lama of Tibst, and fe the first of his kind to submi: to the ignominy cf by- ing photograpred. He 1s only twenty- two years old, and clearly ramanders his former godlike incarnations. ‘1c joture 1s reprodussd from a photograph hundred thousand ts Jin the Illustrated the estimate of the London News. number of the fam- ous Rocky Ford cantaloupes shipped from the Rocky Ford district of Colorado 4 jast season. Seven hundred cars were sent out, as against 592 cars the previous year. The town of Love- locke, in Central Ne- vada, ran so short of fuel the other day that the inhabitants had to pull down some of thelr build ings and uso the material for fuel. The meroury was 30 below. _—— SS = Twelve milion six ‘A cross tetween a racing shell and a rowing machine has been invented hy ® German crew trainer, The boat is shaped ike a long box, rigged like a shell. ‘Nhe boat is fastened to a dock by its stern, the crew take their places and the ~ “coach,” standing on the dock, acts as coxswain, Letters from the People # *¥, Answers to Questions Panama Canal digging complication be Porarily solved. If the work is unpleas-) more worthy of imitation. Also, I be simplified by maxing United suites cOu- | ant or perilous tt will act as a deter-| Heve that Napoleon was a greater gen- | t age for a young) Victs dig it. Let each State send half | rent to crime, . SALUTAS. |-ral than Welllagton; that he was a its convicts io Panama for the pur- ie Compariven hain’ greater strategist and had a greater pose, sound-bodied. men alone being ‘ sent. Let them receive double the pay they get for prison work, and let faith- ful labor ‘there double commutation privileges. Thus the canal can be dug After Sixteen, To the Editor of The Evening World: What is Une earll mian to put a “Mr.” ‘bis calling card instead of ‘Master’? before his name on Convict Labor for Canal. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wortd: I am deeply interested in the sugges- periodically drench this part of the city in blood? We i ‘extirpated only to give place toa San neighborhood ? ca iota eras i Martin Hewitt begen life as @,law clerk, but qutokly developed such re- talents for the ferreting out of complicated mysteries that he took tp the trade of private detective. His business was always conducted with- ut the help of professional assistants. He maintained that he had no “aya- fem” doyond a judicious use of ordinary faculties, The folowing eaperioncca Weere narrated by Howitt to Me friend Brett, a newspaper man, “Were all your servants at home the day the brooen waa pened? * eaten | “OD, yea; I made inquiry the | eit.” re a —_—_——— “Very good! What next?’ CHAPTER II. ‘Tevterday—and this is whet made Me send for you. My late wife's aleter The Match Cine. came here laet Tuesday, and we gave OWITT nodded. “Yes,” ho eaia,|her the room from which Mrs. Heath “A spent match, of course?” lost her bracelet. Bhe had with her a “Yes,” of course” replied gir | very old-fashioned brooch, containing a Wemes, “a spent matoh. Bhe noticed miniature of her father and eet in gront & with three very fine briltiants and « few smaller stones. Here wo are, though, at the Croft. I'll tel you the Test indoors.” ipliins cover pip Sareatlen 7 Hewitt la(d hfs hand on the Baronet’s "article was talom. I mentioned it to| [TU “Don't pull up, Sir James,” ne ; ene Test tan eta te sald. ‘Drive a little further. I should ey % seemed significant.” Uke to have a general idea of the whole » “Bearesiy."” said Hewitt, shaking his Read. “‘Scarcely so far to be called yesterday after- *) noon, as my élater-in-law was changin: her dress, she left her room for a ino ment to speak to my daughter in her “Well, at any ‘te: Gence ap-|FO7™M, almPst adjoining. She was gone : no more than three minutes, to me so fur that it struck me | most, but on her return the, oes chy be worth while to describe the |'which had teen lett ‘on the table, hai jtghlad aberlnd reac they | S228, Now, the window was shut fast, @nd had not b | soma trace it it it had been pawned. | course, the door was ohen’ bur wo woe They had tried that, of course, over the my daughter's, and anybody walking ear must Nave been heard. But tt tet without axy reset but 1 fan | strangest cireumstance, and ong thet shot e wonh making fi, e kes me wonder whether [ Mead might poseitly load us on the tra, been awake trday or nit, was James Norris se's head again there lay a used match on the Sit. AB nearly as possible, where och had been—a was broad rubbed his nose and looked ‘ually before hin, Li —curlous ft in London—at a shop in ‘he sald. A Wing tine? But that was some time be- f fits: Yagee than you shall see for ‘and the pawnbroker had clean tor- til you could examine ite My you could examine it. My @8 about the woman's appear- had heard of your nav mame and address she gave That vou whould he catied tn Bo tlt wes the end of that | want se, 1 did exn the servants left you rout the thing’ he the brooch was lost A ut iA fe ned, her sister when a mother died and left it. It’s al. meayn Wekett: most worse than the Heaths’ bracelet pd without risking good men's lives, and |that Gladstone was a greater man and| found something like gold dust in the) thon (recently made by a reader and approved by other readers) that q No. 1 The Lenten Croft Robberics SOLVED BY problem of conyict labor will be tem-|meihoda were more moral and just, 8. J., New Milford, 4 Partin ttewitt, lavestigator. By Arthur Morrison, —>No0. | with things, | can assure you. See What afraid to come near the place, And I “No. Why do you ask?” architect» the builder, if you pleage—] found?" ladies In tthe space of one year robbed another in this. mysterious | pete back v. By the way, | Sir James; or, say, puttin another| .""Not a word: Bove? knows bat nin my house Lena't tind | were you, thinking of having any aera: coach-house. oF something. ‘Because I| relatives and Lioyd. 1 took wer Ie People will’ be| tions or edittons_made-to.jour house?” one, As. n aad altogether I'm not pleased the lef! A Thought for To-Day. VEL the undiscouraged, resolute. struggling soul of man; Fiissce former armies failed? Then we send fresh armies—and fresh again ;) Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new; Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clapping hands, the loud applause; Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious, unconvinced at last; 4 Struggling to-day the samo—batiling the same. To the Editor of The Evening World: Bee wets L. D., Syracuse. N.Y. Speaking of the comparison between | g, s, a Gladstone and Bismarck and between eee y OSI Ce) WAN Mareet MEX. ‘ ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wort: Napoleon and “Vellington I believe} 1 have dug a well in my yard and @ very low cost, and the present | stitesman than Bismarck; that his| water. Where can I get it tested? ' . I. —WALT WHITMAN, A New Detective Series Author of ‘‘Tales of Mean Streets.’? Mttle diaguise, be the architect all Hewitt examtned the match a Bopha, sit do. te yourpieese:, 12 sou | ‘it w busses very ttle, te, remarks can only find this thief and put an end | “It woultl to have gone out at to this horrible state of affairs, you'll| once Could you hear tt struck?’ ao i ico I've over| “I heard nothing whatever; y sluely nothing,” 1 "IE you 1 E : i re a3 4 5 : : : aa i i y 3 AS le i Eg 5, i i f ges me ee i nis 5 e ; B : | 3 if i by ie inl : 4 : Z iz 3 j 5 5 laze! thers syst nt, proton. OF" bank: ae ; r just at. p . Sir james; eee seo, And we must Jamnes Hrewits Payer ee ae to consider the robberies ‘@ lump. | Baronst who was etanding by the dcor we are at the lodge gate again, |—'J think we will see the other room 4 ner—the man who left |and take a walk outside the house, if || li | ) - = i f WH the iaader by he jaya an the arse ova: | You Pleasr, gunpone by jhe by, that i {| | i, & re ! there i no «etting ‘at the mitches i i} - sion bie wigs lett behind on the first and second oc | i | i . Hi nodded in the Mtrection of ly | i | : Hn f whan ano, woe ‘ol ‘a. box. border. | Calons il a ‘ ; ” . a fir James ans-vered. “Certain- Cees Will YOU ae a ne Re-| ly not here. ‘The Scotland Yard man ember th Yhg alterations 1 think, | may have kept his,” 5 T well Book AeWb| ciiod cresented po peculinn featiess ——] —! e! 0 jar. wre. ek the toge ABT ne eye K'taw fect below the Window. the roof My sister-in-law? Mrs, of, tive billiard room was visible, ern sisting largely of skylights, yea! jyou shall come to her. room at shun tateiy”uaht wale a bons - | certained a no imniture a ‘ , Thank you And 2 think Mra Caxe-| ings hil not been materially chiaged ner ‘sighted, and a boy from. the|lnce the socond robhery. and exprested r ea and dog cart away, | Dis devire to see une windows from the ener ever hie, wished ta naam the nainey OF ick and energetic lady of middie}ever, he wi know ru of vel slightly on|&nY persons who were known to hav age. (Se bent her pews, name, and [een bout the house on’ the: occasions said: "T must thank you, Mr. tial toy Apa Wivee: Taare Maha Noi nine Your very Prompt Mei you can at-| James.” he said. \iegin with yourself, ford in tracing the thiet who has my ince, Where were vou ‘at thess property— whoever it may be—will raaie on Mrs, Heath lost her bracelet 2 ine moat sratestt, Sm caren ee asi in Tagley wood’ all the afternoon, ready (om waa on the kécond floar—| When Mrs, Armitaze was robbed T be. top, an on Dart of the bullds| Heve T was comewhere about the place Ane alight centision of simall| most of the time she was out. Yestar- I wae down at ve mm, ir es. of dress WAS Observable in| (ay Twin Gent neds I don't know art darts ct the Tom aquired Hewitt, “ta| whether vou call thowe susplolous move- ) as Ht was at th 1, many uf 5 SESRY aaa aacng, St Se te tiny Gat eal Posy ane et, ak by ering: hae noe Died another foun and. put | muBnE.the batter recall thowe of the reg reall to some oA sctide a yout Rnowscge-aiw aod sund—m Roe f renning| House on. wt eael ; “Any help in t Kk t full” ; Hewitt stort | defor «fund aatant| "Well, you Know, it'squite Imposaibte y help in tracing the thief will make me most gratefu table. en A wer’ for ail bis servents. You'll wet it by direct question! “ ‘he observed, “exactly where it was sD aaa See daa don’t euspectiany of, teams a8 i to wi only. iean't 4 do nochng!! | “S think you might uc least consider] come to look around. You haven't told)" “Ah, well, we'll see. 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