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‘can to “a ne merely willing Sut eager to divide with the other, now on the 60 per cent, and how on the 4 per cent. basis, tf thereby ahey can prevent any outelder from {nterfering. * “In the political arena Murphy and Barnes are merely fighting for the gov fernmental gate receipta—the Governor- }ehip, the Mayoraltics, the legislative (dMces, the control of the canals, the prisons and the highways—contributed by the people of New York. They are it in insisting that the people shall have no more say as to the handling of the offices and other governmental gate receipts than ts implied in occasionally major and which the minor portion ef these receipts. “They are business on a 60 per cent. ond a 40 per cent. basis, each in turn getting the winner's oF the loser’s end, just eo long jubmit to thelr dominion foolish practice of ther except by put- ting the other in power.” SULZER ATTACKED FOR 6TAND- ING FOR PEOPLE. ing that the Progree- against Roosevelt “At this moment that which contains the most of menace to all our State js Tammany Hall, In New York City Progressives are doing all that we elect @ non-partisan ticket, headed by o truly Progressive Demo- erat, a tried and excellent public oM- cial, John Purroy Mitchel, #0 as to keep the municipal government out of th control of Tammany Hall, and make ft aa inetrument not only for securin, honesty in municipal affairs, but for bettering the living and working con- ditions of the men and women who toll with their hands. I wish to call the attention of the, conservatives who have professed much horror of the Progressive doc- ‘trine of the populer recall to just whet ae been done by Tammany in the ab- of the popular recall. I and interests of the State” jarde public oMciais the direct primaries and popull ernment on and, if necessary, Yudicial decision limiting ¢ under the Conetitution to @o social and industrial Justice, ——— PROGRESSIVES MEET TO CHOOSE TICKET. ROCHEFTHR, » Sept. 1.—Pro- Gremive leaders, State and national, in- cluding Theogere Roosevelt, are here for the State conference of the party to be held this afternoon to name candi- dates for Chier Judge and Associate Judge of the Court of Appenie and for- mmulate plans for the future of the party fm the State, About five hundred dele- gates are in attendance After @ meeting of the executive com- mittee lest night, which was attended by Col, Roosevelt, it wae predicted by a party leader that United States District Court Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Gamue| Seabury, both ef New York, would be nominated to-day Yor Chief Judge and Associate Judge veapectively. The names ef Virgil K. Kellogs of Watertown, a former Juige, and United States District Judge Thom. as Ives Chatfleld were also mentioned, Early to-day the endorsement of Asso- | clate Judge Wiliam K, Werner was oon- | sidered improbable, Th bile meeting of the State con- ference this afternoon was preceded by & conference of County Chairmen, a meeting of the Bxecutive Committee of the Progressive Btate Committee and meeting of the State Committes and len to perfect er GOV. SULZER GIES LE TO CHARGE consider whether you pre! the recall exercised by the people themselves at polla, or the recat! exercised by Mr. Murphy at the end of ® telephone. am not now discussing the merite of the charges nor the evidence against 1 am not now epeak- court of impeachment, of the alle- gations that will be considered by the court of impeachment. These alle- gations afford only the nominal reseon for his impeachment. 4 | | f : s fF tf F if i HF | | i i t H i i jan z PREACHING BULZER. “Our opponents have been fond of saying that as against the ‘hasty processes’ of pure democracy, which they assert we advocate, they believe im the ‘cautious processes of represent- look at what has been done in thie ease, A little group veting under the lawh of whe by no possibility can be held r mpensibie te the people, decreed that Gev. Guiser should be impeached. A committee, dominated by his enemies within bie own party, took up with amasing celerity a mass of defamatory * testimony and, without any opportunity for presentation of the other side, ot the establishment of an impartial tri- ‘unel, reported it to tne Assembly. “Instantly one of the allies introduced ® Fesolution of impeachment, a hurry call was sent out over the State, the necessary majority was dragged into the Assembly, and some twenty-four hours after the presentation of tho rea olution @n impeachment was vo! “Tammany furnished the immense ma- derity ,of votes; but when votes were lacking at any stage they were supplied by adherents of the Barnes Republican machine. “& report of a violent partisan com- by the Assembly on one day, and on the next day this ‘rep- reventative and deliberate body’ votes the impeachment uf the Governor of the Sate, and asserts that by thelr action ceased being In other words, under the ~forma of impeachment under the “forms of ‘representative gove: pent’ which we have bee: ured wy Our opponents ‘will prevent popular excenses,” tt ap- pears that a boss can in twenty-four hours, without any appeal to the people secure A recall of the Governor by the lower branch of tne Legislature." "We Progressives a4k that the people be given the opportunity In a euch case Ag thin themselves to pass judgment on the Governor in whatever way justice demands insteas of sermitting Judgment fo be passed upon hin) merely to gratify the piivate vengeance of the bosses ot Tammany Hal!.’ The remainder of Colone! Roosevelt's . mpeech War devoted to pix fam line Of attack. upon the “bi-partisan” com- binations of Republican and Demarratic bosses in city and mur‘cipal pwiltica, F and to the advocacy of a Progressive ; elt policies Lesislature iis fall. He replied tartly t some of the criticising of the Roose: in Dr. Schurman's address ag temporary Chairman of the Kepub- Hean Btate Convention in Carnegie Hall fost Tueaday and argued that the voters n@uld expect no gélict along either eco- pamio or politi ines from the present of a the Republican or porty in this wate. s%: de expleined at tength that the pres- MADE BY PE (Continued trem Firet Page) counsel to of Managers pro- that he will not make his appearance during the trial. Goon after the Governor heard of Henry Morgenthau'e testimony Gtarted on a long automobile ride ac- eompanted enly by the chauffeur. Oo his return to the People's House no BECOND SET OF LAWYERS AT WORK FOR SULZER. In preparing bis statement, or hie fenéing him before the Impeachment Court. They include Samuel L Brank- enstein, bis former law partner; Samuel Boll Thomas an4@ Col Alexander T. ‘Bacon. Bome of the testimony Geveloped againet Mr. Bulser yesterday is regarded ee more important than that involving campaign funda Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador to Turkey. testified thet Mr. ®uiser had asked him to “be easy with me” and to “treat the affair between us @4 personal.” This referred to the Mor- genthau contribution of $1,000 “without restrictions” during the Gubematoria: campaign. ‘Duncan W, Peck, State Superintendent of Public Works, testified that as re- cently as July 16, when ft became known the Frawley committee wanted te quee- thon him about hie $600 campaign contri- bution, the Governor sent for tim and eaid: ‘Do as T nball; deny 1" Mr Peck cald when he protested that he would be under oath the Governor ead: at's nothing: forwet It.”* SUBPOENA SERVED ON THE GOVERNOR'S SECRETARY, Chester ©. Platt, secretary to Gov. Hulser, waa subpoenaed to-day ax a witneas at the Impeachment trial of tho Governor, Platt was ordered to ap- Pear on next Monday to testify in re- lation to the Governor's alleged barter- ing of hin political influence tn comnec- tion with certain road improvements in the counties of Ensex, Warren and Greene. The subpoena ordered Platt to produce ail reports written by John N, Carlisle, Commiasioner of Highways, in connection with this proposed work The seventh article of the Impench- ment charges contains the allegation that the Governor promined Assembiy man HQ. Prime jr, @ anember from Kewex County, that if he would work for legislation in which the Governor wan interested he would sign # bill al- ady pasned by the Legislature appro- priating 690,000 for the Improvement of highways in Prime‘a section of the State, The Assembly Managera desire to know $f Carlisle secommended that | the bill be vetoed. Salzer's HUDSO Garrison, friend « State employee, must remain in the Albany County Penitentiary untu the Assembly managers soc fit to reloase or this session of the Legisiature ochrane, tnon's a a writ of habeas corpus, afternoon nite eas de- The Court ruled that the Assembly had acted an @ court. ond therefore he had no right to interfere with ite ruling, The Court also denied anu) plication to admit Garrison to holding that to do would “defeat the ends of justice” rison was re- turned to the Alban¥ County Peniten- ent situation “eo damaging to the honor would be avoided if there were at this time in in the =e coe OF OORIN'S RY WN SUHMI CASE SHONTS FOREMAN | Dower of the people themaelves to pass overrule any right One-of 80 Prominent Citizens to Investigate Murder of Girl by Priest. MURET WON'T CONFESS. Fake Dentist Says He Knows of Nothing That Would Help Inquiry. Coroner Feinberg announced to-lay that Theodore P. Phonta, Preattent of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., han @greed (0 act as foreman of the Cor- ener’ jury which ts to hear evidence again Hane Schmidt at the inquest fnto the murder of Anna Aumueller next Friday. Mr. Shonts ts one of eighty prominent citizens for whom esummonnes fo gerve on the jury have been imued. Among them are Robert L. Gerry, No. 816 Fifth avenue; Charles G. Dickey, No. % Hast Fitty-first street; Harry Payne Whitney, No, #1 Fifth avenw Henry Siegel, No. 600 Fifth avenue; Latham Reed, No. 161 Fast Fifty-sixth wtreet; William J, Riker, No. 16 Fast Fifty-fftth street; George W. Fairchild, No, 47 Went Thirty-tourth street; How- ard Perry Weir, No. 317 Lenox avenue; Mortimer Regensbu No. 4 Weat ‘Thiety-fourth street, and Vincent Astor. ‘Dr. A. Rosa Diefendort was added to the staff of allentste who are to deter- mine the question of Schinidt'’s mental condition for the information of the Disteiot-Attorney. Dr. Diefendorf was formerly at the head of the medical staff of the Middletown Insane Asylu Joneph Vitale, a prisoner in the Tombs on a charge of abduction, tried to com- mM& suicide by hanging last night in his cell, which fs three cella removed from that occupied by Schmidt. He was @ut down In time to save hin life. Now there are two guards on the tier, one watching Vitale, the other watching Nat. Mope that “Dr. Ernest A, Muret would confess to facts that would ald ate in ite case againat Schmidt immed to-day by the following le not considered neo- essarily final, however. Muret mentions the. revolver case, but says nothing about the forty-seven years he may get in the Federai Court on the counterte! ing and conspiracy charges, It ie un- the prosecutors 4!@ not expect to tell anything about the murder, but believe Muret can divulge much Schmidt's life habits that will ald them in es! hing his ganity and sending him to the chair, —————aie—aeeee STOLEN PEARL NECKLACE SOLO FOR $700,000 Gems Picked Up in London Street After Robbery Bought for a “Celebrated Personage,” BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 27.~It was @nnounced here to-day that the famous Pearl necklace, then valued at $625,000 which was stolen from the matis whil being transported from Paris to Lon- don on July 16, and most of the pearia of which were ploked up by @ workman on a London mdewalk on Sept, 16, has been sold by Mile. du Monceau de Bergendael of this city, acting for a “colebrated personage,” for $700,000, The contract with Max Ma: London dealer in precious stone: lates that if the two pearia when the necklace was found ahi later he recovered and added to. the nesklace the prive shall be increased to 9760, 000, ——___ THAW PLANS TAXPAYER'S SUIT TO GET HOME CONCORD NOM, Sept. 2.—tn order {to bring whout Mis legal removal to | Pennsylvania tn the event that tie re eet of the New York authorities for extradition ia denied by Gov. Felker, taxpayer's sult against the State of New York ts planned by Harry K Thaw, ee Thaw said to-day that a report had reached him from New York that Wil- Ham Travers Jerome intended to take no further atepe in the case here if the Executive refused to grant extradition, Replying (0 the suggestion that this might necessitate his permanent resi dence in New Hampshire, ‘Thaw said he was confident that a taxpaye: to prevent further e xpense 10 New York ‘lon account of @ citizen of another - | State would bring about his legal ri | moval to hia home State. ‘And that is the one thing my mother and T wieh,” he added, Mrs. ‘Mary ©. Thaw, mother of the fugitive, left for her home in Pennayl- vania to-day. Harry Thaw denied him. y self to all callers during the morning and was in close conference with hia New York lawyers, Vorhaus and Relig and with T. Rt. EB. Molnnes of Ottawa, who hax made a study of the lawa under which Thaw was deported from Canada, Abstt i hed ri urea uy 5 cy ing at the Lib- erty Theatre, will Be stver, words and music complet wortew's Sunday Wor, anaemic | DOCK COMMISSIONER | SMITH’S DAUGHTER | 1S A BRIDE TO-DAY. | AYWARD SMITH @ sy wacmy, ‘This afternoon nt 4 o'clock Miss Made- Jeine Hayward Smith, younger daughter of Dock Commissioner and Mrs, R. A. C. Smith, will be married to Irvin Willams Day, also of this city, son of Mr. and Mra, J. Francia Day of Utica, N. ¥. The ceremony will be performed in Christ Church, Greenwich, Conm., the Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks of St. Bartholomew's Church officiating. After an extensive wedding trip the couple will make their home in this olty. “CHEMICAL” ABE HELD ON EXTORTION CHARGE Alleged “Yesky Nigger” Gangster Implicated by Horse Poisoner’s Disclosures. Abraham Smith, who says he is a milk dealer, but who, the police say, is known as “Chemical Abe," a member of the Yesky Nigger horse poisoning gang and the man who prepared the death tablets for horses, was arrested thie afternoon at his home, No. 40 East Houston atreet, by Detectives Thomas and Russo of Dis- trict-Attorney Whitman's office. He was taken before Judge Mulqueen of General Sessions, who held him in $25,000 bal! until Monday, when he will be arraigned to plead to an indiotment charging him with attempted extortion. Smith was implicated In Yeaky Nig- ger’s confession, the police learning trom Nigger, they say, that about @ year ago Smith tried to extort $00 from Jacob Smith, @ liveryman with a dozen horses, at Nov 240 Division street. According to the police, “Chemica! Ave" threatened TRAUTWEIN ADRIFT AS ATTORNEY AND BANKER LEAVE HIM |Constable Finds Raab, Missing Heir, at Great Neck Estate. CANNOT GET OFFICE: Head of Estates Settlement Corporation Advised to Con- fess to Surety Company. George Read, an acquaintance of Ed- win Elliott Trautwem, who te changed with having foisted a fake heir upon the estate of John Crowley In an affi- Gavit filed in the Surrogate’s office by Joseph Kettner, who oonteases that he wae the fake heir, had been missing from his home, No. % Hamilton place, for several weeks untit Inst night. Raab recently inherited an cetate worth §400,000 left by his father and when he disappeared hin wife asked friends to locate him, fearing that be might have met with harm. She ap- pealel to two of her husband's friends, They knew that Raab had been ac- quainted with Trautwein and yesterday morning they went to Merman Roth, formerly Trautwein's attorney, and de- manded to know where Raab was. They had been “tipped off” that Raab being harbored at Trautwein's estate in Great Neck. CONSTABLE SEARCHES FOR RAAB WITH ARREST WARRANT. Roth told the two friends that he had heard that Raab was at Traut- wein's home. In a big touring car the friends went to Great Neck late last night, appeared before Justice of the Peace Will Dodge and obtained a war- rant for Raab's arrest on @ charge of disorderly conduct. A constable wan detailed to accompany the party. They went to the Trautwein home. A woman who said she was Miss Paine opened the door for the constable, and EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 97, 1918. BROOKLYN BURGLAR CAUGHT AFTER LOSS OF SIO GENS Detectives Find Loot in Room of Prisoner and Say Trio Confess. At last the police of Brooklyn have Aucceeded in rounding up the gang of burglars who have been making good at théir profession during the past six monthe and have cleaned up about $10,000 worth of jeweiry. Up im the St. Mark section, which Includes Brooklyn and New York ave- nues and Park piace, they have hardly nisaed @ house, and the one question the inhabitant of this section were ask- Ing each other was: “Did thay get you yet?" In fact there have been no lene than twenty burglaries during the past two weeks and the police, determined to make one Inst effort to put a atop to It, have had a dozen detectives on duty in this neighborhood. They were rewarded last night when Detectives MacKirdy, Reynolds and Bryne of the Atlantic avenue station arrested Gamuel Duval, nineteen years, and his wife, twenty years old, of No, 83 Windsor place. Duval was held on a charge of burglary and his wife as a material witness. It {# eupposed Duval made certain admigsiona to the police, for later detectives arrested Frank Kline of No. 96 Third avenue and Joseph Bragini of 27 Stuyvesant atreet, Man- They were also charged with The quartet wan first taken Avenue Court. According to detec: tives they have all confessed. While waiting to be arraigned about thirty people were lined up outside the court waiting to identify the stuff which had been taken from Duv: Prominent among these were Kenneth Howard of No. %8 Brooklyn avenue and Secretary to the late T. F. Ryan, whone home wus touched about a week ago for about $60 worth of stuff; George Ken- nedy of No, 1138 Sterling place, who loat about $800 worth of jewelry; T. Hopacar O'Brien, also of Sterling place, and Henry Steigiitz of No. 20 Hrooklyn ave- hue, whose home was burglarized on the evening of Sept. 21, when the thieves got when they asked to see Raab she told them he Was not in the house, They in- sisted upon making a search, and going upstairs they found Raab asleep in @ room, He was taken back to New York, and he and his wife were reunited at the Knickerbocker Hotel last night Raab made a statement to his wife and friends as to how he got into the Traut- wein home and told them something of the financial transactions he had with Trautwein while in his home. The friends and Mra, Raab refused to tell what had happened to Raab. The Estate's Liquidation Corporation, the concern under whose name Traut- wein operated, is no mote. The bn! furniture and other belongings of the corporation are in storage, having been Placed there when the corporation was refused an office in the Emigrant Bank Building in Chambers street. At the office of the superintendent of the bank Dullding it was stated thie morning that Trautweirl had applied for an office the building and was told thet he or to poison all his horses if Hmith did not deliver the money. The liveryman balked, however, and Abe never made good his threat, a SUSPECTED POOLROOM STOPPED BY POLICE Shoppers’ Messenger Company Raided, but No Arrests Made. Under the name of the Shoppers’ Messenger Company, the police belleve that a poviroom nae operated on the second floor of the three-story of- fice building at No, 6% Weat Fifty. eighth street for several months. They Visited the place yesterday and confle- cuted two telephones and pwitchvoards and two telegraph instrumenta) which proved not to be connected with any outside wires, They alwo got a lot of racing ahe A tip hed the Bast Fifty-firat street station that the poolroom was in operation, and Sergt. O'Sullivan and [ tectives Levins and Vesey went there. ‘Through & frosted glass door giving into a second room the policeman saw sev- eral men hurrying about as though seeking ® way out and they smashed ik, There were seven men in the Because they had seen no o} place a het the policemen dared not ar- rest any one, and they did not even take the namen of the men they found inside, But they stripped the rooms of thelr furnishings and carted everything to the atation, es LONGWORTHS DEPART FOR CANAL INSPECTION Will View Finishing Touches at Panama and See Oceans Joined, The United Fruit steamship Carrillo walled to-day for Panama, and among those on board were ex-Congressman Nicholas L. Longworth and his wife, who Was Alice Roosevelt, The Lona- worths sail to see the finishing touches put on the Panama Canal and to see | the first stream of water let into the They Intend to be on board the |firet boat which will go through the canal. . in the magasine of to- | 4ay- Also on the Carrillo was Mf J. del Plas, general manager of theFrench line, who arrived tn this count yeater- M. Plas is going for a general inepection of the cane hin firm was not wanted. Then the e: Pressmen in charge of the furniture were instructs’ to drive to a storage warehouse. “We heard a great deal about the af- fairs of the Extate's Liquidation Cor- poration end Mr. s'rautwein, and as most of our information reflected dis- credit upon the concern threw ‘Trautwein's account out of our bank. He tried weveral times after that to atart an account with us, but we re fused him.” was the statement made at Bischoft's banking house at No, 237 Broad wi ROTH WITHDRAWS AS TRAUT. WEIN'S ATTORNEY. Herman L, Roth, who was Traut- Wwein'a attorney until yesterday morn- ing. when he hastily withdrew as the accused's counsel, @eald today that he had found that Trautwein needed something more than a lawyer, ‘The National Surety Company had been pressing Trautwein for an ac- counting in the John Crowley estate and other estates he had handled, and he came to me and sald he was in trouble and wanted me to etraighten things out for him," said Roth to-day, “1 went over the books and found them in an awful state. Away with things to the value of about ‘f100, Duval and Kline only recently were discharged from Blmira, and the police believe they organized these extensive burglaries while they were confined in that institution. DRIVER'S SPINE BROKEN IN CRASH OF WAGONS Mistaken Signal Cause of Colli- sion—Terrified Horse Runs Away. An express truck, driven by John Feinan of No. 474 Columbus avenue, ran into a milk wagon driven by Harry Sale of No. 91 Union avenue to-day at Be wen avenue amd One Hundred and For- .ty-ninth street, the Bronx. The driver of the milk wagon, crossing One Hun- @red and Forty-ninth street, misunder- Btood the driver's signal. The shat, of the truck ripped into the side of the milk wagon, turning it over. Salz, sitting inside the wagon was caught and pinned under th® wagon and @ masa of milk cans, The horse of the milk jon dragged the wreck- age and the driver twenty feet and then ‘oroke the harness and ran until stopped @ block away. The wagon was lifted from Salzs by a score of men, He was unconscious, Dr. Balvini, who took him to LAncoin Hos- Pital, said that his spine was broke: and that there wan little chance of aa ing his life, WALDO GLEARS COPS AS GAYNOR INSTRUCTED Dismisses Charges in Case of Brooklyn Boy Who Played Ball. Police Commissioner Waldo to-day disnmMened the «! ys that were brought against the three Meutenants and fit- “E tried to help ‘Trautwein to traighten things out but @ few days ago things began to pile up aguinet Trautwein eo fast and seemed so con- vincing that I told him he was, 1 thought, beyond the afd of @ lawyer and 1 told him to go to the onal Surety Company and make @ clean breast of everything. If the charges made against him are true Trautwein has committed perjury, forgery and grand larceny. 1 do not know where he is as he hasn't been at my office since I washed my hands of the whole cane.” Ee FOURTH L. |. WRECK DEATH, John Hackman, forty-five years old, of Beechhurat, L. I, died in the Flush. iT Hospital from @ broken back re. ceived in the Long Island Ratiroad wreck at Col Point last Monday, He is the fourth victim and the free Passenger to die, The other three vic- time were the two motormen and a con- ductor off duty, Hackman was in the firet car of the train bound for New York, Although back Was broken, the doctor, ry an not! death she fainted the care of S doctor. aa salesman for a whol: Manhattan, e- teen patrolmen of the Propect Park station following the arrest on June 1 last of Herman Alberta of No. 0 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. Patrolman Farley took the jad tn cus- tody in Prospect Park for throwing a ball, ‘The boy wrote to Mayor Gaynor com- plaining of ill treatment by the police, As @ renult charges were brought against fifteen patroimen who had made similar arrests and three lieu- tenants, Heyes, Wiggins and Wash- burn, who entertained them. In diemissing the charges to-day the Commiasioner etated that just before the late Mayor sailed he asked that if the policemen were found guilty of the charges they be It with ently. pen is WOMAN DEAD ON TRACKS. Chicago Coron: Mard CHICAGO, Sept. 27—The mutilated ody of a well dressed women wee found on the tracke of the Elgin, Jollet and Eastern Railroad early to-day near Wayne, Il., under cireumatances which made the Coroner suspect murder, Workmen at @ stock farm ahout @ quarter of a mile away assert they heard screams from that direction af an Interurden car from Chicago had This gave rise to the suspicion that the woman was Yourdered and on the tracks, Tae only clue the victim's identification s on which is ved ‘o mia ener! IS NOW ON THE OUTSIDE OF MILADY'S tly She Calls It a “Safe Keep! Pocket” and the Slit Skirt Is Responsible for Change, | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. %7.—The “firet national bank” has a new location, It used to be inside, but now it Is on the outside, and has @ snap-buttoned flap. Tt even has a new name. It used to be called just “stocking,” but now under its modern development it ie known by the euphonious appellation “aafe-keep pock- on” Yoo, ite true. The old fashioned de- pository of our grandmothers iiss been superseded. Those who know say thet ‘the latest production of the dressmaker, ithe elashed ekirt, 1s responsible, and have chalked up another argument against (to men, at leant) style. The new stocking, which has juat made ite appearance, i awfully hard for a mere man to describe. You know they are made with a band at the top. Well, that band has been made some- what wider and a trifle heavier, ton has deen added. That really ia all there tn to it. After all, it would seem to be more convenient than the old way, and then there ie room for powder, puff, rouge, mirror and @uch necessary accessories. erial! Oh, silk of course! Who would have @ new-fangied stocking in anything else? Why are the mfe-keep pockets need- ed? Well, the slashed skirt is the an- ewer. ROB STRANGER OF $25, BUT OVERLOOK $2,190 Larger Sum in Visitor's Inside Pocket—He'll Stay in at Nights Now. Upon being rescued from the hante of strong-arm men in a street on the east side early to-day, Marl Sherwood, @ merchant of Honesdale, Pa., reached into the inside pocket of his coat, drew out @ wallet and counted the contents, Amounting to $2,100 in bills, Replacing he wallet Mr. Sherwood buttoned hin coat and asked for a police escort to the Northwestern Hotel at Chambers and Went streets. “All they got was $6. I was carrying it In my pants pocket,” said the man from Honesdale. “I guess 14 better not go out nights in New York.” Mr. Sherwood came to town day. Late In the afternoon he went to Coney Inland, and it was long after midni¢ht When he got back to the Brooklyn Bridge. He didn't know where hin hotel was and asked directions from one Arthur Peterson and one John Lee, Instead of guiding him to the North- wemtern Hotel they steered him over to- ward the great east side, In front of No. 19 Madison street they «rabbed him, and one of the two got the $2. But Deetctive McKie had been trailing the trio and nabbed Peterson and Lee. They were arraigned tn Centre stre: Police Court to-day charged with high- way robbery, Peterson protesting his innocence. THUGS BEAT, STRIP AND ROB RAILROAD WATCHMAN Battle One. Assailant Caught With the Stolen Clothing. William Ladens, employed as a watch- man at the Meadow shops of the Penn- Just west of Jersey City on wny Meadows, was beaten, stripped and robbed by three men early this morning. His shoute brought two ratiroad detectives to his ald. ‘They caught a man who is looked up at Kearny, N. J. He dente he had part In the affair, but the railroad men exhibit Laden's shoes and his rail- road pass as evidence, saying they found them upon the prisoner. Ladens halted the men entering th yards about the shops, and while o1 of them parieyed with him the othe worked around to his side, and then all three jumped upon him. Ladens shouted for help and attracted the at- After Is tention of Charles Farley and John ‘Murtagh, two detectives who were watching in the yards between the Manhattan Transfer for men stripped Ladens to his undershirt, taking hia clothing, his re- volver and watch, ‘The captured man gave the name of rd Hogan. He said he was tw. ty-five years old, had no home, but used to live in Jersey Cit ot Clearing House banks and trust com- panies for the week shows that they hold @11,04,060 reserve In excess of legal requirements. This ie an Increase of $988,600 from last week. DYSPEPSIA 8. co $$$ RST NATIONAL BAM’ DOG LEADS TOBODY “OF MAN IN BUSHES;-~ SUPPOSED SUICIDE Torn Check and Hotel Receipt Identify Him as Charles Goodrich of Jersey. DEAD SEVERAL HOURS Autopsy To Show if Marks on Lips Were Caused by |” Poison. A body, believed to have been that of Charles A. Goodrich of Blalratown, N. J., was found in a clump of bushes near the One Hundred and Forty-fourth street entrance to Riverside Park at @awn to<day. The police are awaiting the findings of an autopsy to confirm thetr belief that he committed suicide. Charlies Brude of No. @1 West One Hundred and Forty-second street took his dog out for a walk at 6.80 o'clock and as he was passing a heavy patoh of shrubbery he was attracted by the actions of the beast. Following the dog straining at the jeash, Brude came upon the body of a man, nearly concealed the greenery. He notified Policemi Yost of the West One Hundred and ‘Twenty-fitth street station and the po- iceman in turn, called an ambulance from the Knickerbocker Hoapita!. Dr. Nardello said that the man had been dead several hours, CHECK IS MADE OUT BY G00D- 4 RICH. 7 ‘The police found near the body the fragments of a torn check on the First National Bank of Blairstown to the order of self and signed aries Goodrich.” The amount was %0. There Was also a torn receipt from Mills Hotel No, 3, at Seventh avenue and Thirty-seventh street, for two nights’ lodging. The clerk of the hotel spi that Charles Goodrich had registered there on Thuraday. In the pockets of the gray and black the dead man wore were 1% pounds weight and five feet eight and one-half inches tall. He had red- diah-brown close-cropped hair ané a small moustache of the same apior. There were marka about the ips that le@ the police to delieve he had taken potson, but this fact cannot be verified until an autopsy has been performed. OMcers of the Blairstown Piret Na- tional Rank said to-day that Goodrich had been a baker in town up to two montha ago, when he sold his business and moved away. The 900 check drawn to himeelf, which was found in fragments by the dead man'e side, 4 not represent the closing of his aecount with the bank, it was added. IDENTITY MADE ABQOLUTE BY SEVERAL WITNESSES. Irving Wilke, elevator boy im an Apartment house at No, 3876 Broa way, called at the Harlem Morgue, where the body wes removed, and verified the identification aa being that of Charl Goodrich. He said the jad man had lived in apartments there with his wife several months and that yesterday Mrs, Goodrich left on @ trip to Rochester, where she was woing to visit friends, A sent to her, at Rochester, to-day. \ man who made the suit which Goodrich wore went up from the cleth- ing store of Kiee & Cu, ot Lafayette and Fourth strots, and ndded Me werd to the Kenti lon by the elevator boy. 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