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t the appointed time to receive the jong which you requested will goon be at hand. You will econ enter into the consideration of the evidence on the subiect (Yellow Dog funds and eampaign contributions). “Tn the meantime the District-At- torney, 1 have been informed, has been directing his attention to the Iaw on the subject, If he has any authorities on the subject he wishes to submit I wi) be only too jhappy to secelve them” District-Attorney Jerome replied to Judge O'Sullivan: “The legal questions involved are quite wife in scope. The presentment the Grand Jury filed wished to know if the cts assumed constituted larceny, and !f not !f they constituted any other crime, I am haying the authorities on the subject looked up in order to submit them to Your Honor. I think they will be ready a week from to-day. Jerome Needs Time. will take me, I think, about this time to get them In shape to submit them in the proper form, as I prefer to put them together in such a way as to minimize the work of the court. I do not care to present my personal view of the law, but the accepted authorities on the subject; that Is, not in the form ‘of an argumentative brief, for I have my own positive ideas on the subject. “But the time has now arrived for the Court to instruct the Grand Jury in its own way.” Judge O'Sullivan told the Grand Jury he. would give them full instructions on insurance matters a week froin to- day. After ithe indictments were handed $m to-day Mr. Jerome notified his for- me rassistan:, Mr. Rand, now attorney for the Mutual iteserve officers, and ths sent for his clients to meet him in court. « After the cases had been disposed of Mr. Rand notified the Coum that he deem engaged as counsel by offi- | GRADY MAKES FIRST MOVE IN INSURAMCE WAR Senator Gives Notice of Fight on Appeal as Bat- tle Crowd Gathers. (Special to The Evening World) ALBANY, March 8—Senator Thomas Grady, the Tammany leader of The upper house, served notice to-day that he ‘will oppose the passage of the bill reported by the Armstrong Committee repealing section 56 of the Insurance law, which compels the oonsent of the Attorney-General to act against com~- panies, This is the first move made by a member of the Legislature in the com- ing fight against the ten Armstrong bills, which will be opened to-morrow when the Insurance Commitwe of the Assembly will grant a hearing on all the measures. The committees will meet to-night to arrange details of the hearing at which more than fifty representatives of insurance companies will appear THE WORLD: THUKSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1006, _MRS. ROBERT SHAW AND W. W. ASTOR, JR. in Hl i a ai 2 Ni} gnc i oe Members of the Legislature who usvally go home on Thursday will re-| main here for the hearing. Insurance men are gathering from near and far. There are five life under- writers’ associations in the State, with! tals of the other Insurance companies whose indictment would be under dis- cussion, an dasked leave to suggest to the Court and Grang Jury what bear. in_gthe law had on tre oases involved. Sudze O'Sullivan turned down this lon with a vehement denial Mr. Rand said to the Court: “T have een retpined by persons who are in- terested In the Investization of the Grand Jury that 4s now under way or bout to begin. I would lke permis- |, sion from Your Honor to submit my ideas on the law governing the evbfect under Investiation.”” District-Attorney Jerome sald he could mot stand for any such procedure as it might taint every case under investiga- tion. Judge O'Sullivan agreed with the District-Attorney and sald that he could m2 hear of any such interference. gee SCANDAL CUT DOWN MUTUAL LIFE BUSINESS, "he widespread effect of the expo- Sure of scandal in the big life insur- ance companies was emphasized tn the report of the Mutual Life for 195, 1s- sued to-day, which shows a loss of $47,869,787 in new business written. This fa a little Jess than the New York Life lost in the same period, in new Dusiness, and a great deal less than the loss in business suffered by the Equi- table, which amounted to $80,000,000. he revelations concerning the Mutual und New York Life, however, came onths later than those as ‘to the Equitabie. Commissions and bonuses to Mutual @sents fell off $1,559,343, but salaries Abd agency allowances increased £5,- M2 ‘The total receinis were $65,031. Gui iudrease of {Ule.bes oFer the twelve months. of 1904, but disbursements for 186 exceeded the 1901 distursements Dy. $4,590,205, Despite the big falling off in new business the statement of the company shows an increase over 190 of %45,.- 23847 In total premiums and annuity incomes. ‘The total assets of the com- Pany Amount ‘to $470,0S1,165.90. ‘The Stocks owned: by the company appre- giated in value more than 30,08 {n 195, and the market value of those Stocks on Dec, 31 was $73,$54,298,08, UST ONE SWEAR i ' MORE FROM MACK Poltee Commissioner Bingham made public to-day the following correspond- ence: Hon, James F. Mack, Third Deputy Po- Mc& Commissioner, New York City. _Dear Sir—I have the honor to request your resignation as Third Deputy Police Commissioner, to take effect at the close of office hours on Saturday, March 10, 1906, Regretting the nocessity of this action on my part and with friendliest regards to you personally, very respect- fully, your obedient servant, THHODORE A. BINGHAM, Police Commissioner, New York, Delivered 9.55 A. M., March 6. Under this is ente: the ‘book of eedings of yesterday's ate M1, Qinsi’s resignation as follows: Maren 5, 1906. T. A. Bingham, Police Cominjssioner, ‘ity of New York: ir: I herewith tender you my resigna- tion as ‘Mhind Deputy Police Com sioner, City of New York, to take effece immediately. Respectfully, | JAMES F. MACK, ‘Then there is a short letter accepting Mack's resignation, “He lies lke a hhrse-thief,” is the re- tort made to-day by ex-Third Deputy James F, Mack when told that Commis- | sioner Bingham had caused entries made | on the official police reoord to show that | the Commissioner asked for Mack's res- ignation. The entries were timed to the minute to show that they were all made befre early afternoon on the oth. Mack retorted that the record was made up daily at 4 o'oock. “I left for Clty Hall that morning to ask the M r to pull down ake | ham’s heavy fines,” sald Mack. ‘Fa ing to see the Mayor, I decided to| quit.” ——>—__—_ — GOSLIN’S “PAL” ARRESTED. Daliiwin Wanted in Buffalo Alleged Get-Rich-Quick Swindle. When Buffalo's Chief of Police to- day asked that Charles Baldwin be arrested, Detective Sergeant MoCon- ville didn't have much trouble in find- ing the man, Hé knows Baldwin from the days when Alfred R. Goslin and Col, Bob Ammon were flourishing and Baldwin was in on some of their schemes. He was arrested at his home, No, 48 Wie: Twentieth street, and held’ in ime Btreet Cour: to’ awalt the ar- ‘Wival ‘of'a detéctive from Buffalo, 4 @uthorities of that elty accu Bwindling through (a t-rich-quick” feuauci here at No. 22 Elie i In has y eity at No, 42 "roadway. Sh + PILOT! COMMIBSIONER CHosEN. for headquarters at New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Newburg.| These have united for the fight against} those portions of the bills that are ob- fectionable to them. and have estab-| lished the elves with headquarters at the Ten Eyck and will be the heating. represented at ey have named the follo | utive Committee to. arrange iter ee Speakers to be heard: F.C. MeMullen,| of Rochester, Chairman; W. C. John- son, of New York, Chairman of Legisiag tive Committee; ‘Lawrence Purdy, of New York; M. R. Miller, of Rochester; | H. C. Church and E. C. Fowler, of Buf. falo: P. Kidder and George Brainanl, of Syracuse, J. H. Quinlan and L. Pp. Gad~ ler. of Newburg, and H. H. | ‘iy. H. Cohn, of Senator Armstrong, Chairman he | Investigating Committee, belore®™ mates the hearing will be had to-morrow, an- nounced In the Senate at the close of the session to-day that It was the in-| tention of the committee to begin the| hearing to-morrow as soon as the two| houses have adjourned, He thought they might get to work. about 11 o'clock, He understood that most of those who were to appear would arrive to-night, Hi i ‘i my lil : i i i hn POLICE GRAFT LAID BARE BY BERTHE CLAICHE (Continued from First Page.) made in a pawnshop. in elther Sixth or Seventh avenue, between Twenty-| elghth and Twenty-ninth streets, and| the cartridges were bought in the same place, ‘Trusted policemen and attaches of the District-Attorney’s office are round- ing up the women whose names bave been furnished by Berthe Claivhe, They are promised absolute immunity and} protection from the revenge of men whose careers might be spoiled by their cuarges, but cven under those conditions it Is hard to get them to talk, Fear Police Revenge. “Berthe,”” said one of the women to @ policeman who went after her last| night, “is going to do a long stretch | in jail, She will be fed and cictned and taken care of. I have to stay right there in the Tenderloin, This is my life. | It Is too late for me to get out of it— in fact I don’t care about getting out of it. If 1 squeal agatnst ‘the polive they ‘will get me sooner or later, ‘They may lay dead for a couple of years, but they'll get me.” Despite the difhculty of socuring testimony from the women of the pavement, there is ample evidence to corroborate Berthe Claiche. Comimis- sioner Bingham, who frankly confesses he doesn't know anything about New York, was overwhelmed with amaze: ment’ when he learned, what. I» com: mon gossip in the ‘Tenderivia,, that certain plain clothes men and even un- iformed officers live vith ‘Tenderloin Women and spend thelr earnings Many women of the Tenderioin, Berthe he told Assistant District-Attorney Ely, have police protection. ‘They are known in their haunts as “Cop so-and- go's girl," and are more or less immune from arrest. The Claiche girl asserts some women ire arrested time after time, while others are scarcely ever molested unless a new man wanders into the precinct and takes ic woon himself to plck up some unfortunate who may accost him and take her to the etation-house, Gives Details of Crimes. Occasion the seething corruption in the Tenderloin bubbles over and the public 1s momentarily enlightened as to the Inner life of the distrfct. A few years ago a policeman attached to the Tenderloin precinct committed sutelde | and it Was discovered that he was not only living with a woman of the quar-| ter, but was a devil worshipper. ot long ago a young Japanese wom-| living with a plain-clothes man of Tenderloin, was mysteriously shot In phe flat they occupled, They were alone in the house, ‘The girl sald rself, and the man {s still harge that policemen | spot drunken men and send women after them for purposes of robbery {# an old story in the Tenderloin, but she goes into detail The sums of money she ment aa having been stolen . by women and divided with poltcemen ‘are amazing, District-Attorney Jerome con-+ ducted an exhaustive Investizition alone this line about a year ago, us the result of a confession made by a vrisuuer in the Tombs. According to Berihe Claiche, a woman te seldom arrested when she has any money. The passage of a $5 bill to ti cor- rupt policeman insures a chance to cape. The women, If they 1 would rither pay than. sil! ‘As soon as she ts arrestel gates herself to pay $5 to a bondsman, unless she prefers to remain locked up. over night. If che wants anything while In her cell she has to pay to get it. A messenger to carry word of the arrest to the man who cwrs bor oss a dollar, The police court fine is ge! erally $5. Some Magistrates make a ractice of sending old offenders to the sland for six months, and when these | Magistintes are sitting in Jefferson Market or the West Side Courts the policemen with grudges against women seize upon the opportunity to send them away. Honest Police Rejoice. Altogether the confession of Berthe Claiose is a most unsavory arraignment | of certain members of the Police De- partment. The honest men on the force are glad that {t has been made, They can be counted on to help drive out the grafters who take monoy from women ‘Abraham Levy will hold another aultation with Commissioner B ative to the Ciniche charges to-day. The Commissioner [s heart and soul with the investigation and tne transfer of twenty-three men, some of whom had uty in the Tender'oin for years, to oth ay shows how other prSELD WY speere e is stirred up. Meerthe Cigicho ‘was, cheerful In her oril inthe ‘Tombs to-day. Ghe has taken the step the, ‘Tender John oman alwave fenrs ta talee—she Has “squealed on the cops." Now that she has told what she fond fa off her mind she !s prepared to fo all in-her, power to bring the men she accuser to fustice. Berthe’s Police Record. Bertha Claiche confessed to her rec- ord and the confession shows that sit- ting in a trial court was no new ex- erfence to her when she was arrilgned for the murder of Gendron. Before coming to this country she was con- vieted of theft In Paris, On Noy, 18, 1902, she was convicted be- fore Justice Wyatt. in Special Sessions, in this city, of running a disorderly re- sort at No. 34 West Sixty-fourth street and sentenced to thirty days on the island. Policemen Hawthorne and Day secured her conviction. She was then known ag Bertha Gendron. ‘The French Consul aided in convicting her becauay sho had Uving in her house a little French girl named Helena Schott, who went under the name of Carmen Gep- | dron. This girl was a member cf a prom- inent family in France and was abduct- ed for immoral purpos She was de- morted by the authorities after Barthe Claiche was sent to the Island. GERMAN “BIS AUF” MEANS PLAIN EXCEPT. Justice McCall, After Hearing Many Experts, Finally Decides on Translation, On the meaning of the German word “bis auf" hangs the declston rendered to-day by Justice MeCall, In the Su- preme Court, In a lawsuit over $16,088 on a contract made between a German lawyer and ints client. yer, Max Reinach, and his client, Hans Karl Frost, sued hig widow, Theresa Reinach. claiming @ balance of $10,000 under a contract by whieh Frost sold “the Prinzen Palais is dead, the German banks and lawyers’ of- fices to testify in support of this translation. Mrs, Relnach contended that although “bis aut’ did mean “up to” in Eng- Nigh, the “up to’ in this case was equiv- alent to “except, She exhibited 'receipta for various gums pald by her late husband and by herself as executrix aggregating ex- actly $4,000. One receipt was for “the balance of $1,300 ‘bis auf’ #400."" A late receipt. was for the $00, Her banker and jawyer and school teacher experts supported her transla- tions and Interpretations, and Casscl's| and Fliegel’s and other German-English dictionaries were appealed to. But Justice McCall was unable to decide with all dia learned but contradictory assistance whether “bis au f in that contract meant that Reinach had paid only $4,000 of the 3,000 marks $19,666.25. in United States money purchase price for the Prinzen Palais or liad paid ali but that $4,000 when he in Schleswig, province of | Schieswis- Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, inher- ited by me from my father, and mor- gaged for 16,000 marks to "Max Rein- Alta bpevial | mse of the Chamber A gon Vernon H. eat ay % ait } 000 marks and aokowledaes the, of the pur- nike price bis au! ¥ fxed bis aut eof tivo] dF oat, claimed, that." mmengs el Sele tiesuiehane priae Da ar wom te ae “ * froma CAMB ob aD fad Baila, dled, Justice McCall finally called in two conceded experts—Martin Tisen and George von Skal, They both said that the, widow's. contension was right, and to-day Justice Mo: 80 decided, giy- ing judgment for Mre, Reinach. signature nows and the} jag mth wl Rete LN MEY TOL Ht HAPPIES Husband Says Had He Been Poor They Would Not Have Separated. “Too much money was the root of all evil in my domestte relations,” sald James P. McQuade, of No, 2% Central Park West, to-day. “When I married my wife she was the daughter of a boarding-house keeper in Philadelphia, Prosperity went to her head, She's in Atlantic City now, with two maids to t on her and an income of $533 a month, yet she sues me for alimony. If I had been a poor man I believe we would be living together happily." MeQuade, who 18 prominent in the affairs of the National Condult and Ca- ble Company, had just heard Justice Garretson in Special Term of the Su- Freme Court, in Brooklyn, set aside pro- ceedings thus far held in the suit brought against aim by Mrs, Sarah Mc- Quade, of No, 235 Madison avenue, Man- hattan. The Justice omered that, the entire case should be reheard in Rock- land County in May. This step was taken after the defendant stated that he had never been served with the com- plaint in the action, Only a summons had been handed to him, and the trial had been taken up before Justice Burr, in brooklyn, without nis nuvwledge, Wael Ae teueiVed oruers arouga Accor: y USvOlne LO appeur and suuw cause he siuula Huy v8 cuinpeied to pay wuimony, dhe Husband's side of tha litigation is -explasicd in part vy nis counsel, 14. G. backus. meguade says ne lived happy with oi wife at ther hand- Siwe Mansion in Nyack at the race vi WOON & your, UNG his sister law imvyeu an, drouse started 1. deay, mcQuade Cale Wome Yue igi: | Qiu said Ue Waee sister use yer UU} or fe Would, Me was tne one who got! val, wus rst Cacre Wag a Sp UURBe OF iepartes In) Walci. china bowl nit him on the h and another artic of ovirtu, emploved in eu of a Vocal tort, broke seVera! of his rive. ihe sister-in-law a had for assault and battery. su her husowud »: home for, $80,000, valued at “$20,000, ble ‘sum. By the terms of a dof Ws property, drawn in he claims she receives the bulk of available income, while he gets only uses. and for a : anid attembt to sfoure it ots now Ar hti TRAIN WRECKERS ARE CAUGHT AS LYER ESCAPES |Express Near Disaster, a Pulls Up Short, Scat- FATAL SHOT HITS tering Passengers. (Special to The Evening World.) PASSAIC, N. J., March §—Rushing i at full speed what seemed certain ge, distruction early to-day, the Buffalo flier. east bound, on the Lackawanna atactiv: 7 i | Raliroad, was by the rapld action of , Detectiv es Caught Two in 4 the neer brought to a sudden stop ae ; 95 within a few feet of a heap of fron Vacant Lot with $2,500 girders und stones, placed on tae 1 tracks by wreckers to derail the cars. Worth of Loot, The vivient juit sent the passengers | flying from their seats and berths, 4 \ ore Lege es tog! BUMber suflering shock and bruisers. Jnte, stenting of @ truck with its) “All, however, fearful of a wreck, |horses and a load worth $2,500, to-day| All : 1 in the probable fatal shooting |2UtTied from the cars, Just in t.me to ‘alleged robbers, and the|fee the train hands drug four men ecreet companion, ‘The Injurea| from a clump of bushes at the track man is Henry Samuels, twenty-two|#de where were hiding, expecting years old, who was shot in the back|to see the $ smashed. jby Detective Sergeant Dugan as he} The men admitted that they had (was trying to get away, Samuel|tried to wreck the train, and were neken. cighteen véirs old also of}turned over to the police, to whom No. 174 Clinton street, was arraigned! ames 2s John Bond, 4 ae sex nent Cas : ‘rank Wilsinzak and | The truck 1s owned Alexander all foreigners, ‘The Robb, of No. 34 Ferry street, Hobo- Ith being proreanone ken, and was driven by Thomas Kelley, | ‘abd | qdaanieied’ to. dail of No, 463 First street, Hoboken, It| navel “ was loaded with three boxes of linen, Detective Jesse McCumsey, of Ho- three bales of woolen goods and two my says thin Is. oF . Says th nly one of gover |boxes uf bronze gold paint, the prop empts to wreck the Buffalo. express {erty of John Copstick, who has a|!*\_tlis elty. factory at Monticello, N, J., and an) 7 he, ctrmpt at wrecking was made office at Franklin and Church streets,| f1oboken at630, but was ruaning sixty: Manhattan, two “minutos behind schedule and Kell t the truck at Grand and Crosby streets, when it disappear (Rotified the Mulberry street station an |the empty truck was found three hours | Tenth street, | and Kinsler speeding to make up time, Rushing down from Paterson the en- id the throttle wide open, but cn thy because every engineer cw that there had been Jons on the track near this city 1 umes tly. went to No. 405 Bast | . \Phird str found Samuels | the Lrighton Worsted Mills the and. Schenten goods. on. it| © {tie obstruction on the wagon. Schencken stumbled and fell, | © 1 save his big engine \elving Kinsler a chance to grab him, nd. She ground down Samuels was climbing fe when n with the heavy Dugan ordered him to hat. Samuels nans behind her, but was paid no attention and Dugan fired. The & lengtt: from the heap, boy fell In a heap on the other stde of 1 {0 consist of girders, |the fence. was tal t) Bellevue, i=pla tes, 61 and a couple of blocks all so arranged that had the kg struck them the flanges eon lifted clear of the steel and the chanecs would bs a thou- sand to one that the engine would have where his con The polics say that encken broke {down afterwards and confessed to theft and to a burglary on Greene street when $6,000 worth of sill} gertous, a month age P| ’ cars Wa atone aliens, Feugtere es one into the ditch, dragging the cars Jeently in & warehouse In Williamsburg, | “4h. Fosse ate ot i} Ww arre: bre made. “heneken’: ate be or rpc t but mh arrests were made. Schencken's| daa was. on duty watching fife te jpicture is in the Rerues’ Gallery as a truck thief, the police say. MINERS MUST CUT train wreckers, but was further down At’ the first shriek of whistle, when the brakes were app! he started up the track, and as he ran aw four men break cover between him and the train, which was hidden behind the DEMANDS OR STRIKE, | ‘i: Nimans jromugnt fiieue Ta eee NEW SUBWAY LINK TO OPEN. Trains Will Ron to Ship Canal on March 12, The first passenger train will be run over the section of the subway between One Hundred apd Fifty-seventh street and the Ship Canal, on the Broadway diviston of the subway, on March 12 at 6 o'clock A. M, Whe service will be by a shuttle’ train running north to ‘Two Hundred and ‘wen! will be made fr (Special to The Evening World) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 8,—Sev- eral of anthracite eal companies th which, confident that there would be no strike, had placed orders for dynamite and powder for April delivery have dur- ling the past cuple of days cancelled the delivery: notice and ordered the ex- |plosives herd until further notice |Pothis is additional eviderrsa, fe: the operators expect a strike, ae! >see. this] bellef has grown wince the mine work: ers demands were recelved, Before that time few of the operators delleved there world be @ titun, but ew, unless the miners back down con- siderably. a strike is sti) ha able, as raat te ole eune THIEE CAUGHT "AFTER CHASE THROUGH STREET At Work on Flat Door When Woman Occu- pant Arrived Home. After an exciting chase of five blocks this afternoon Louls N. Elmore was caught and charged with attempting to break and enter the flat of Mrs. Au- gusta Hahn, of No. 72 West One Hun- dred and Eighteenth street. Elmore was also Identified by Mrs, Freda Bauer, of No, 63 West One Hundred and Elgh- teenth street, as the man who on Fed. 22 was seen looting her flat and escaped after a chas». Mrs, Hahn had been out. As she reached the top floor she saw a man working at the lock of her door and called tp him. Without a word he turned and bolted past her. She dropped her bundles and chased him down the five flors to the street. He ran across to Fifth avenue, with Mrs. Hahn tn close pursuit. By the time the chase reachel the avenue there Were fully a hundred peo- of the West One Hundred sixth street station, The man turned down Fifth avenue to One Hundred and Fourteenth street and then over to Lenox avenue. where Fox caught him. When he was brought back Mrs. Hahn {dentified him as the man who ad tried to force her door. As the police were leading him away Mrs. Bauer broke them the crowd and {dentifled him. At the police sta- tion he gave his name as Louia N. Bl- more, a musician, of No. 20% Lenox man Fox, and Twent! avenue, The police oelleve the name a fietitioes one. A iimmsy wae fy in his possession, also @ lst of 100 ad dresses of prominent Harlem people. In the Harlem Court he was held for examination. BUSINESS WAS BAD, SO HE SHOT HIMSELF. Wife Heard the Report and Found Margoninsky Staggering in Room. Despondent because his business was not going as we'l as he wished, Moses Margoninsky, « paper box manufact- urer, shot himself to-day in the parior of his home at No. 78 Prospect ave- nue, the Bronx, His wife was in the sitting room when he walked past h and into the parior, A moment later she- heard a spat, she found her bu bana staggering “about the room sui clits had shot himse:t on the right aldo dete” hymerical “when. Dr. “Gians came to remo (Rien wounded man to Lebanon Hi pers His chances of re- ASSEMBLY HITS HAINES. ALBANY, March 8—The Assembly delivered a blow at Prealdent Haings of the Society for the. Provention ee ee ee HAD TOO MUCH ple in the running, among them Police- cme BO-CENT GAS PASSES SENATE; STOCK UNLOADED Legislators Send Selling Orders to Wall Street Before Voting. (Special to The Evening Worl!) ALBANY, March 8—The Senate to- day passed the elghty-cent gas bill by a vote of 44 yeas to 3 nays. Senators McCarren, Cassidy and Coggeshall voted in the negative, Every Tammany man voted for tho bill, though none of them gave any explanation for his flop, as did Gard- ener (Republican), of Kings, and I nan, of Queens. There was tio debate on the measure, it simpiy being called up in its regular order and moved to w cox, Republican, of Cayuga, the only prominent representative Sen- ator who led the fight against S-cent gas last year {) make an explanation. It was in effect that while he stili thought it unjust to compel the com- punies to sell at a price which would leave them. no profits, he bowed to the will of the majority. The five Tammany tors who yoted agalnst the ill Ia. r—Foley, Riordan, Fitzgerald, Martin and Haw- kins—were guyed by some of thelr as- soclatts as they switched around to-day. “Did you get your orders this year? : Sen askel a representative Senator as Rior- din votd for the bill. “If you did he's! changed hig rnind since the last time.” It develoned to-day that some of the Senators, anticipating the passage of the bill have been selling gas stocks short for the last two weeks. A big rush of selling orders were wired York last night. State Commission has already or- dered the reduction In the price of gas §/ cents. The Gas Trust will fight yoth projects In the courts. WALDO AS JUDGE IN 408 MACK GAVE UP First Deputy, Nervous but, Natty, Listens to Complaints Against the Bad Cops. First Dep Police Commissioner Waldo sat as tral judge at Pollce Headquarters to-day. The resignation of Deputy Mack left the alternative of either Gen, Bnghampor Deputy Waldo hearing complaint There were sixty-flve policemen up for trial. Many complaints were adjourned. Deputy Waldo was on time at 1) o'clock. He was dressed in a neat- fitting blue sack sult and black four- Inshand tle. He seemed to be a trifle nervous, = The first case called was that of Leo Shentield. of the West One Hund- redth street station, who was thirty- one minutes late from roll call. ehendala blamed it on the alarm ‘Anything further to submit," asked aldo, replied Shenfield. ‘Nothing further,’ Decision was reserved. James P. O'Connor, of the West ‘Thirty-seventh street station. was chare- ed with arresting Morris Sabaduski without cause Several witnesses, were present to testify for the complainant. “De tu know the accuse If so, id Deputy Waldo. dently been pre- ‘This question had pared for he read it. The complainant didn’t understand the question, Then it was explained to_him. ‘The policeman after a long mfxup showed a letter from a Magiatrate jus- titying the arrest and the complaint was dismissed. Sergt. John L. Maher was also charged with having Megally detained Sabadusk| and failed to give him a recelpt for money and jewelry found on his person. Mr. Singer sail that when he was searched {n the station-house his money was taken from him by order «f the sergeant. He did not get a chance to first how much he had. On the last part he complaint Maher was found guilty and decision reserved. Thomas #. ealy, of the Traffic squad, was charged ‘with refusing to give protection to citizens fram strikers Rt a building in course of erection at Forty-first t and Seventh avenue. Case dismissed. \ John F. Ryan, of the Eldridge street station wae absent one hour from, his home when on sick leave. The patrol- man said he was after medicine. took you ah hour to get yt medicine Ald it? asked Mr, Waldo. fnd you guilty. Ten days. ‘A second complaint aguinst Ryan was for falling to report at the station- ftouse on time while he was on the sick list, On this charge he cot one dav ‘Tie other cases were unimportant. —_—————— CURIOUS CHANGE Caused by Food, “A few months ago,” writes a N. Y. State woman, “I was the victim of a stomach s0 disordered that I could | eat scarcely any sort of food without suffering great distress. In time an eruption appeared, of a most painful nature, which cevered my whole body, and which the doctors said was erysipelas, and prescribed for it ac- cordingly. “Their medicines gave me no relief, however, my condition growing worse day by day, At last it occurred to me that possibly the derangement of my stomach was the cause of the trouble, The doctors sald that that organ was like a piece of raw beet, I made a complete change in my diet, and put myself on a straight regimen of Grape-Nuts food, Ina day or two I began to improve, my diges- tion gradually came back, all the ner- yousness and headaches disappeared, And within 10 days the so-called ery lag pagsed away and has never returned. 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