The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1911, Page 4

ne Sg ES ere \NuAD OF PRISONS WHO RESIGNS OFFICE WHILE UNDER FIRE. SUPT. COLUNS, HEAD OF PRISONS ESA OFF Roosevelt's Friend Suddenly Quits While State Investi- gation Is Urder Way. ; SAID HE WOULD STICK. | Had Refused to Get Out When Goy. Dix Called for His Resignation Last January. ALBANY, April %—Cornettue V. Col- lina of Troy, State Superintendent of Primona for thirteen years, has re- signed. His resignation, which reached Gov. Dix to-day, takes effect immedi. | ately, Supt. Collins was appointed Maron 9, 198, by Gov. Black to succesd Austin jas served un- t, Odeli, Hig- gina, Hughes, White and Dix. His last Teappointment was by Gov. Hughes and his term would heave expired in 1913. ‘The position pays 06,00 per annum and the term is five years. Collins had supervision over the four Btate prisons, Sing Sing, Auburn, Clin- ton and Great Meadows, and of the Matteawan and Dannemora State Hos- Ditals tor the Criminal Insane. He was @ member of the State Parole Board and was Chairman of the Commission on New Prisons appointed by Gov. Hughes to select the site for the new prison to take the place of Sing Bing. Was Asked to Get Out. Boon after Gov. Dix assumed office im January he requested Supt. Colina to resign, but the Superintendent re- tueed. On Jan. § the Governor an- notinced that he had appointed William Church Osborn his legal adviser and George ©. Van Kennan of Ogdensbure to investigate the management and af- falre of the State Commission in Lun- acy, the state prisons and reformatories anf the Excise and Highway Depart- mente. The Prison Department was the firet to be investigated, expert accountants | \ from the Sta.e Comptroller's office hav- Ing been put on the books in the vark| 4 owe prisons early in Mebruary. 4 On April 13 Commissioners Osborn and | Van Aennan cave a public hearing at Sing Sing Prison and the following week | +) the Inves*tzation was continued at Clin- ton Prison by Mr. Van Kennan, C-V~COLLII Comanisstoner; Daniel B. Conway, for- mer Mayor of Troy, and Col. Joseph F. , Superintendent of State Itefor- matories at Elmira and Napanoch, WALLSTREET Decided improvements waa mantfoate’ in the stock market during the after- . Lad by Steel, stocks began an up- ward movement at midday that culmt- nated at highest prices of the day at the close. Gains were from 1 to 2 points with abou teverything traded tn display- ing some amount of gain. A pronounced buying demand for bonds was @ noteworthy factor In giv Ing impetus to the demand for stocks that was in progress throughout the day. The Quotations, Today's highest, Jowent and last prices of stock and of oe! changes aa compared with Joulenlay + Gnal figures are as follows. High, ay Big & low ( Sth tle ttt! rs Peere ere erees Fer Fre. The Comminsioners plan to visit Au- t urn Prison in the near future, As a hat! result of tho investigations at Sing ; Bing and Clinton Prisons, alleged ir- ittes in the purchase of supplies 14 loped, but no charges had } been preferred against Supt. Collin +1 In hia letter to the Governor, the a Superintendent gave no reason for his + & resignation, but {ft {s understood a| \! ie business opportunity was presented | i 3 which, 1 accepted, made it imperative for him to sever his connection with the Department at once. Ho was not| . 3 in Albany to-day. + % Mr, Collins member of the Re- + publican State Committee and political | t 2 leader of Ren: or nty, He took | + 8 @n active part in the campaign just fall % and wes Theodore Roosevelt's “right |} , % hand man” at the Republican State r 2 Convention a Saratoga when t a Roosevelt wrested the tempora t? manship from Vice-1 ae the candidate of the + ou led by William Barne + man of the State Republica 2 After Collins's Job, The general impression p Collins resigned under fir 1 that the Anvestigation would have resulted in charges to bring about his removal resented to the Sen | Betore leaving for New York at noon | Policeman Carr of the West One Hun today Gov. Dix made public Superin. | dred and Twenty-ffth street station saw tendent Collins's letter two men loitering near a hallway in near One Hundred and | THEY CARRIED A JIMMY. evalls that | Pair Lottering t Locked Up on % which says ° | Twenty-fifth street, early this morning, "The Governor had no comment to jana iach sis approached they started to Sthe ime remarding the resixnation, | run, Care ordered them to halt, and ninsioner ‘Van Kennan sata that| Waen? p with them saw one at the resignation would have no effect on | e™? to conceal a burglar’s jimmy the Investigation of the department now | under his coat, under way, which would be continued| At the police station the men ga’ “without change.” \their names as 1co Esposato of } Three candidates for the vacancy |i13 East One Hundred and Twelftn heave been mentioned: Th * Mott Ow-| street and John Antico of No, 411 East borne of Auburn, State, ad Gamelone Hu red and Sixth street. 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CO. 148 Filth Avenue Immediately opposite the Sth Avenue Entrance to Lord & Taylor Booklet and Color Cards on Request Dives From Fourth Story Win- |Stone Cutter Had Run in ‘| nour of the time he walked over the fire- minute or ¢wo when Bs plight wee dts covered. Had be not been weakened dy Miness, he could undoubtedly have Pulled himself up @o as te catoh hold of ‘one of the iron supports of the fire es- cape. He had probably etruggied in vein to 40 this while the house was being searched for him. The widow said to-day that her hus- band had walked in his sleep ever wince he was stricken with the ner vous maledy that made him an invalid, He complained of nightmares that turned him oo14 and made hie heart stop beating. Invariably, he said, some hideous monster, armed with weird weapons, was pursuing him and {t was only on guch occasions that wot out of bed and walked in his sleep Several times he ran in his #leep, de ascending three filghts of stairs and finally stumbling and falling, which awakened him. Mra, MoWilliame eaid she felt eure that ft was under such circumstances that her husband plunged over the fire- escape early to-day, awaking to find himeelf dangting above a sheer drop of fitty feet. In such a position, with the blood spurting into his throat, it was {mpoesible for him to utter a cry, pit Mente Aen “PINOCHLE” DEACON MELDS GAME IN CHURCH ROW. Hackensack Pastor Tells Roscoe Congregation’s Vote for Dis- missal Is Void. (Spectal to The Evening World). ACK, April 26.—James the “Pinoshie” Deacon of the h Hackensack Reformed floor rear fire escape, He dangled, ut-| Church, was in ¢ triumphant mood to- terly hetpless, in this fashion until the day when the pastor called upon him draining of blood from his heart caused | and admit... that the recent action of death, the congregation in voting him out of McWilliams undoubtedly leaped from | office was null and void. the window of his home while suffering | Air. Roscoe ‘ast week tendered his from @ walking nigthmare. He had resignation as a deaoon, after the ac- been @ nervous invalid for ten weeks tion of the congregation, but, claiming ‘and on several occasions had wandered there was nothing from which Mr, into the hallway and down the atairs| Roscoe could resign, Pastor Duryea re- of the four-story flathouse, aceking, he | fused to accept it. sald afterward, to escape from one of | Mr, Roscoe now has the resignation the monstrous phantoms that peopled |in his pocket, and to-day claimed he his dreams. will keep it until he gets good and ready The plight of the somnambulist was |to tender It, This deacon was asked not discovered until M.1. Herbert Ella: | to resign all, after confessing h worth, who lives on the third floor, hap- | played pinochie for money, but he has : refused to do a0. pened to glance out her rear window. igure sw! TiiWe RONKIA 2 Then abe saw a white figure awingine| Voie WIEE DRINKS POISON. in mid-air, Wife Had Just Left Him. ‘The sleep walker was a stone cutter, fifty years old. His wife had been nure- ing him since hia nerves suffered a col- pase and he was able to sleep only in fitful nightmares, She had been at his pedside last night until within half an MAN DIES HANGING BY ONE FOOT FROM HG FIRE-ESGAPE dow, Dangles Head Down, While Family Searches, NOT A CRY FROM HIM. Slumber From Monstrous Nightmare Phantoms. ‘While the mombers of half a dosen farnities in the Mlathouse at No. 90 West | Forty-third street searched for George MeWlliiama, who vanished from his apartment on the top floor shortly after 2 o'clock to-day without making & sound, the man was suspended by one foot from a projecting rod of the fourth to See Mrs, Alice Pribis took her three-year- old daughter to a kindergarten th! morning, telephoned to her husband, business, then bought @ solution of car- bolls acid in @ drug store. When escape and turned the air in such @ way | Joseph reached his flat at No. 8 St. that his foot caught on a projecting iron! Mark's place, he was just in time to rod and became wedged under one of} see his wife awallow the poison from @ the stanchions of the fire escape. Their | cup. only child, Herbert McWilliams, # youth| ‘The solution was not strong, and Mra. of twenty, slept in @ nearby room. Pribis may recover. She was taken to Returning, Mra, McWilliams found the | Bellevue Hospital, Pribis told the police bed empty. She went to the window] he and his wife have been quarreling of the rear room, which is used as a|fOr @ month because she insisted on a making money for herself by doing em- parlor, and looked out, She saw noth | /o\4ery work instead of taking care of Rousing her ing and heard no sound. her tome, fon, she went into the hall, calling for continence her husband, Neighbors were aroused | peo to Be Police Mast and joined in the search, The entire building was explored, even the cellar. vere going out into | Isworth discovered | the pendant white figure and screamed. Several men lifted the body by the aid/ of ropes, It was not thought the man| was dead and an ambulance was cailed | from Flower Hospital. Assistant District-Attos Peter Smith of Kings County has declined an appointment to the Brooklyn magis- terial bench, The Mayor, while on the Supreme Court bench, was tmpressed with the manner in which Mr. Smith presented his cases, and remembered him when it came to making up the Hist of nominees for the police court bench vacancle: Waleh oce: a . Struggied In Vain. Str Binith deulven, We mays, (0. 65 nat Surgeon Crooks said that the stone! nis work in the District-Attorney's cutter had probally been dead only a! office. VANILLA EXTRACT You have to eat anyhow. Why not put a few of the Premier claims to the test? If these claims are true, you ought to know it. If you find them false, Premier will gladly re- imburse you. In the meantime, we tell you earnestly that your experience with Premier Products will be a happy one. 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