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fe is nothing more than sensation soon as all the newspaper men ‘Were seated at their tables, an om- of Mr, Wallstein's department afound and took down the name of each reporter and the paper he Tebtesented. The whispered reason this was that a man supposed to be @ private detective had occupied s seat in the guise of a news- paperman last Friday and had taken notes upon the testimony of Police Capt. Alonzo P. Cooper, recently re- lieved of command of the Fourth Branch Detective Bureau by Com- @ilasioner Woods in connection with ‘the Cruger case. A little before 11 o'clock Mr. Cruger ame into the examination room ac- companied by his attorney, Terence J. McManus, and took a seat behind the Witness chair. He looked worn and hollow-eyed, the shadows under his btows deepened by the gold rimmed mpectacies he wore. Most of the time be kept his right side partly turned toward the neck-craning crowd of) spectators. Now and then he leaned forward and talked with Mr. McManus, Who made notes on a pad in his lap. DETECTIVE LAGARENNE CALLED AS FIRST WITNESS. ‘The first witness called was John L. Lagarenne, the Fourth Branch Bureau detective who was the first to be as- signed to the Cruger case by Capt Cooper on Feb, 14 last, the day after Ruth disappeared following her call at Alfredo Cocchi's shop to get her sharpened skates. ‘The examination of Lagarenne was short and confined only to the time “ at which he had received orders from thls superior to take up the Cruger case, which he sald was the morning of tho 14th. Mr. Cruger was then called, He gave his address in Claremont Ave- nue and his business as that of coal erchant in connection with Arthur M. Brown, @ You are the father of Ruth) Cruger. A. Yes, I am. Q. What was the first informaiton | you received about Ruth's disap- pearance? A, At about 7 P. M. on} Feb. 18. Q. Where were you? A.T was eating dinner In the Grand Hotel, 7 poston. I was there with my wife. ‘My three daughters, Ruth, Helen and | Christine were at home in New York. Q. What dtd you hear? A. Mr. Arthur M. Brown called me on the! telephone, about 7.20 o'clock. He) aid Ruth had gone out and failed to return, He sald it ought to be reported to the police but he didn’t teido it without my O. K. ‘TO REPORT CASE TO THE POLICE AT ONCE. Q. What did you y? A. I told} him to go ahead and report it at ‘once. &. Did he say how he had heard it? A. Yes, from my daughter Helen, 1 bad told my daughters that if any- thing untoward happened to call on Mr, Brown; #0 they telephoned him when Ruth didn't come home. Mr. Cruger then said that he had called up a number of friends here in New York, including Geo. H. Olney, an old commercial traveller. “Mr, Olney had been with Mr Brown when the first message was sent to me,” Mr. Cruger went on. “In all they sent me four messages.” Q. What were you told about Ruth's disappearance? A, That she had gone to get a pair of skates she had had sharpened and had not come home. Q. You suggested that an alarm be sent out? A. Yes, and Mr. Brown told me he had arranged with Mr. Olmey to have such an alarm sent out from Police Headquarters at mid- night. Later he telephoned ‘ne he was mugh put out because the alarm had ‘not been sent out. Q. Upon what did he base hig belief that a general alarm would be sent out wt midnight? A. I don't know, HURRIED HOME AND LEARNED OF VAIN SEARCH, Mr. Cruger then related that he Jeft Boston at 12.80 on the night of Feb. 18 and came swiftly to this elty. Q. What did Mr, Brown tell you when you arrived? A. That he had been in communication with several private detective agencies and had instituted @ search of hotels, hos pitals and other public ox, but| that nothing had resulted. “One of my daughters had been in the habit of going to the Notlok Kink,” Mr, Cruger went on, “and it was thought that Ruth had gone there, But investigation proved that she had not." Q, What did your daughter tell you about Ruth? A. That she had gone | 11 @o there and seek a young man My daughter Helen told mo that she thought Ruth might have gone to the Metropolitan Repair Shop (Alfredo Cocchi's place at No. 642 West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street) At this point Mr. Cruger was ex- cused from the stand to make way for Arthur M. Brown, who was ques- tioned about his receipt of informa tion from the Cruger girls about Ruth's disappearance. Ho related much corroboration of what Mr. Cruger had stated. alarm before twenty-four hours. He sald that time would have to elapse. Q. What else happened? A. I told Liout. Brown that something ought to be done at once, but I didn’t want any more publicity than was abso- lutely necessary, Ho insisted it was one of the rules not to send out an alarm before twenty-four hours, I said to him: “That's @ heli of a note, Do you mean to say you won't send out an alarm in this case for) {twenty-four hours? He sald it that done carefully and thoroughly because you'd feel cheap if the gir!’ body was found somewhere there. And he replied, ‘We don’t want any- thing ke that to happen,’ Q: When was the first time any momber of the Fourth Branch came to your house to see you? A. A short time after I had first reported the case there, At this point @ recess was taken. At the afternoon session Mr, Cru- ger resumed the stand. Hoe stated Q. Did you go to the police the! wasn’t customary, so I called up my that when Detective Lagarenne called night Ruth Cruger ‘Then I was sent into the rear | Q. What did he do? A. He wrote visit to the police, the former record down what I said on @ card, a yellow showing only the report of the case card. the following morning at the Fourth) Branch Bureau. Q. Were you alone? A, No, two members of my family were with me, I think, Mr, Brown said he preferred not to give the names of those with him “unless absolutely necessary.” Mr, Wallstein said it was necessary that he have proof that Mr. Brown went to the station at that time and the latter promised to consider the mat- | ter and decide afternoon, Q. Did you go to any other police station the night Ruth's disappear- ance was reported to you? A. Yes, to the West One Hundred and Fourth | Street Station, about or 11.80 o'clock. Q. Did you go there directly from the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street station? A. No, I went to the Notlek Rink to inquire for Ruth, SENT TO FLAT TO SEE YOUNG MAN. Q. Anywhere else? A. Yes, to an apartment house in West One Hun- dred and feventeenth Street. It had been suggested at the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Strect Station that by 4 o'clock this whose namb was given to me, Ther T found a young man who answere: | the description I had of him. Q. Who was with you when you | made these visits? A. A plain clothes | [man from the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Station. [ went back to that station with him and after that IT went to the West ae Hundred and Fourth Street Sta- tery Did you go to any other police) station? A, Yes, to the Fourth Branch Detective Bureau, Q. What timo was this? A, Some time after midnight. Q. What did you do? A. I went into @ rear room and made a statement to a man who took it down on a type- writer, Q Can you identify the man you! | talked with at the Wert One Hundred | Vabout thos | would Mr. Wallstein showed Mr, Brown the yellow card—Exhibit 1-—which had been produced during Friday's ex- amination of Capt. Cooper, and tho witness said it looked Mke the card, used in the Fourth Branch, Q. What time was thi midnight, Fob. 13. Q. When did you next go to the Fourth Branch? A. TI think the next | day, about 11 o'clock In the morning. | VISITED DETECTIVES WITH CRU- GER NEXT DAY, Q. Were you alone? A. Mr. Cruger | was with mo. Q. With whom did you and Mr. Cru- wer talk? A. Mr. Cruger talked with & man who may have been Detective Lagarenne. Q, What did you say? A. Nothing | much excopt to urge speeding up. Q. What did Mr, Cruger say? A. He asked the careful investigation of all the premises about 180 Clare- mont Avenue, all the vacant lots, the entire neighborhood, Q. Were you told that day if any information had been obtained as to where Ruth Cruger’s skates had been taken? A.1T think the shop which later turned out to be Cocehi's, was mentioned. Q Did Mr. A. About) | Cruger say anything Premises? A. Yes, he sald he wanted them thoroughly searched, He quoted a member of a family which had sald the girl might had fone there. Mr. Hrown sald that between his Visita to the Fourth Branch at mid-) night on Feb. 13 and at 11 o'clock on Fob. 14 he had phoned to several detective agencies, Later, ho sald it might have been 9.45 A. M. when he went to the Fourth Branch on Feb, 14. Q. Are you fhirly positive that the yellow record card was typed in the Fourth Branch at midnight, Feb. 18, and not in the morning of the 14? A. You, Q. dia tell not you the police you prefer sending out the alarm till you'd had a further talk with Mr. Cruger? A. I sald: “This and Twenty-fifth Street Station, A.| | understood the plain clothes man) was nained O'Rellly, Q. What was said to you? A. That the disappearance was a matter for the Detcetive Bureau, Q. You,had spoken on the telephone | with Mr. Cruger placing the! matter in the hands of the police? A. You. I suggested doing this at once. Hut 1 was not of the mind to give it publicity, T took the matter up with my lawyer before I went to the police. Q. You gave the police Miss Crug- | ers name and a full deseript her? A. Yes, and a picture of her Q. What did you say further at the | One Hundred and Twenty-fitth Street about clothes man to go with you? A. I didn’t want a general alarm sent out until I got a formal O, K. from Mr Cruger, Upon consulting a police directory Mr, Walisteln showed the witness that there was no West One Hundred “nd Fourth Street out shortly after 1 o'clock to get skates which were belng sharpened: For Flavour > _ there is no tea to compare with Fresh from t r SAL Sunny Ceylon. Every packet alike~delicious!—Salada Tea Co.,1 | Ber and he were at the Fourth Branch n of |statement that he would be recalled, station? A. That I didn't want any|to the motoreyele shop on Keb, 14 at time lost }¥.80, what did she report to you’ AWAITED CRUGER'S O. K. FOR A|A. Phut the place was closed. She GENERAL ALARM, | went again at 10.80, 5 and lastly Q. Why did you ask for a plain-|at 280 o'clock, when the shop was open. Q. What did she tell you of this jlast visit? A, Se said she went in jand said, “1 wonder if my wister left & pair of skates here yesterday? The man said yes, a girl had been t kind of shoes did she police station, my daughter asked, and he| “Well, it might have been One| said, “Like yours.” when my daugh- Hundredth Street, It was in th |ter asked him when she had gone somewhere, It wasn't East One|away he said ‘At 1.20, She went One Hundred and Fourth Street, I'm jeast” His answers she said were sure, Mr. Brown told of giving a de- matter is up to you, but I think a airm ghould be sent out— '. Brown sald that when Mr, Cru- on the Mth the former, much to surprise, said he wanted the widest publicity in the case and wanted the newspapers to take it up Q. When did you next Fourth Branch? A. I think CRUGER RESUMES HIS STORY ON WITNESS STAND. Brown was excused with go to the On Feb, 16 or 17, Mr. the and Mr, Cruger again took his place in the witness chair Q. When your daughter Helen went |very ready. | Q. You've heard Mr, Brown's testi- | formation disappeared? lawyer and learned that it could be on him at about noon he was out, A. You, about 9.16 o'clock that night done. L went to the West One Hundred and of the office with a man who had been Twenty-fifth Street Police Station. | called to the desk by Lieut. Brown. This was the first mention of this) likewise when Lagarenne returned la ter with Detective Dillson, Q. With whom did they talk? A. With members of my family, Q. When did you first get your in- that Cocchi had disap- peared? A. On the evening of Feb. 15. A man who sald he was Martin Donovan, and described himself as « private detective of No, 3941 Manhat- tan Street, told me Cocchi had gone | away. Q. When did you next see Laga- renne??A, On Saturday morning, the ‘a7th, at my house, The members of |my family were in and out while he was there. Q. What conversation took place? A. I spoke of Cocchi’s disappearance. Lagarenne sald they had no report any charges against him, He was « perfectly reputable man, Lagarenne told me, Then I asked why Cocchi had gone away and he said he had trouble with hig wife and that private ing him, 1 said to him “a record of this will be had at some time.” him that Cocchi had been at that lo- cation for a year and a half, Q. Did he say how he knew that? | A. No. Tho witness told then of the visit to him of five newspapermen, who had told him that Coo eavory reputation, to see me,” he went on, “and all I told him was that I had been in« formed that Cocchi’s reputation wasn't what he, Lagarenne, sald it was, I didn’t tell him my source of information,’ Here Mr, Cruger was excused and Lagarenne was recalled, DIG UP MORE CELLARS USED BY coccHi. Alfredo Cocchi's confession has not | been officially communicated in detail to the District Attorney, It is re- ported from Bologna, Italy, that the himself yesterday. Inspector Faurot, n charge of the police investigation of, the police, continued to-day the work of digging up cellars in premises where Cocchi maintained motorcycle repair shops during his residence in New York, Heved that he took out his pers. In that event it is quite prob ble that Italy, under existing war clreumstances will hold that he In- tended to renounce his Italian eltiz- first pa- tection of the Itallan government. With the City of New Yor State of New York, throu Whitman, ahd the United States, through the Department of State. asking for the prospect that he will come back fron Bologna 1s considered favorable, A probable development during the lay ty the suspension of ten or a dozen motorcycle policemen, Commissioner Woods is also hoping Bologna certain additional details ct Cocehi's confession, for which he ht cabled, He Is especially anxious to know whether Cocchi had accomplices in his crime and by what means or with whose help he was enabled to make his geiaway. is confirmed, ML. to do anything about him or make! detectives and reporters were annoy- | ip being made up now and an answ r | Mr, Cruger said Laquienne had told) 1 had an un-| “Tat was before Lagarenne came) self-confessed murderer tried to kill) enship and is not entitied to the pro-| return of Cocchi, the |, | to recelve from | ‘ATHER OF SLAIN GIRL WHO TELLS ON STAN: OF POLICE BUNGLING HENRY D. CRUGER be dicen nad POTATOES PLACED ON EMBARGO LIST BY THE PENN. RR. | Sidings Aeiady Cl Glutted With} Tubers—First Time They ! Have Been Barred. ! | | AS a result of the exposure in The Evening World several.days ago that) the Pennsylvania Railroad yards in| Jersey Clty w lutted with cars of| potatoes that system has put an em- bargo on the receipts of potatoes at! iis eastern terminal, ‘The embargo is |for five days, ‘The Pennsylvania has| | warned all shippers that the embargo | jis in effect, The actual number of| cars in the tracks when a reporter for The Evening World made a tour} was estimated at 200, but additional receipts ran that up to 800, This ig the first time in the history of the that an embargo has been put on the shipment of pota- toes by any road. busin, It as often hap- | pened that potatoes would be in-| cluded in a temporary embargo on | i} | feneral freight shipments, but never before has an embargo been levelled Gov, Whitman to-day brought the | At potatoes ont State of New York Into the effort to s 1s another proof of the re- procure the return of Coc to this |Feated statements of The Evening| city for trial. The Governor, in scek- | World that there never had been any ing inform: h was requested} excuse for the present extortionate | by the De of State, wired | pric | District Attorney Swann to find | t is & moat remarkable occur- | whether Cocchi ever applied for his | rence,” one of the best known potato | first citizenship papers, lexperts, suid to-day, “I don't know] It is known that Cocchi was not a! know what effect it will h on| citizen of this country but {t is be-| prices, but it is certainly unusual.” ———- AUTO DRIVEN BY WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURES BOY Skull Fractured and He Has Other Injuries—Woman at «Wheel Gets Away. playing in the street shortiy ck to-day, Francis Hughes, of No, West One Hun His While Sixtieth Strect, was knocked down by an automobile at St. Nicholas | Avenue and One Hundred and Sixtieth Street. The boy ts in St. La “| Hospital suffering from a fractured |shull and internal injuries that may cause death, Persons who witness the aceldent say th ecar was driven |by a woman, It was later found on |tracing the number that the car was owned by Susan R. Lawson of No. 701 West One Hundred and Seventy-ninth st | seription of Ruth Cruger at the sta-|mony about your visit with him to re ion that night. the Fourth Branch? A. You, and he'a| Representative men and women| the woman who drove the car at rae | 4 will meet Thursday evening with time of the accident got away, at did you do before you went | one day in error, My first visit there] Mrs, Grace Humiston and map out eiperneee to the Fourth Branch? A. 1 tele- | was on the morntng of Feb, 15. & method of combating the White} a) saw § | honed to $100 Spring (Police Head-| @. What was the first use you| Slave evil. ease TGF aremek Racoviey Ee) quarters) lade garth hea baation vote A The meeting is the result of a con- | House of Lor |imade o ation your daugh- | ference last night at Mrs. Humiston’s | ‘LONDON, June 25,—Significant inal. Q. What did you ask then? A,|ter Helen gave you on Feb. 14? A. | office hi rty-second | cation of even greater democrat mn Whether anythitg had been heard of|{ called up the Fourth Branch on the} § snolaged | of the British governmental system wa 2 missing girl, 1 was again. directed | telephone r Miss) contained In an announcement of Bon to the Fourth Branch. Q. What did you > ALT told |i; ‘ of |/E@w in the House of Commons to-day Q. What happened when you went| whoever answered that my daughter | the People Committee, {that the Government “had deci to to the Fourth Branch? A. spoke|had located the place where Ruth |! |summon @ conference to deal with the | with Lieut, Brawn about sending out|bad gone for her s WILL HAVE MISS BOOTH's AID] {uture, composition of the House of an alarm for Ruth Cruger, and there| Q, What did y IN WHITE SLAVE WAR. tile telnllea OC sau Hckiek Choe Was an argument about Web. 187 A. A reporter Mrs. Humiston announced she pad! (icy, Peete ah er As | Q. What do you mean by an argu-|that morning and osked for | enitsted the services of Commander |™*"' Bt Lae y wu-|that morning Ked for & ple- | Evangeline Booth of the Salvation About sending out the! ture of Ruth, I told the reporter | Army in a crusade sho. intenda| », 1 \¢ = : [something like this: "Here's an at- [launching against the white slave | fivestiuion, presumably commana tractive girl, who Went to this shop, | {alile, he las become convinced |ing with: the New Tork authoritian ts | ; fu from her investigations that this | establish this fact haming It, to leave her skates, ‘There | traffic is flourishing pot only in, New | — It Understood that the Italian | are & lot of loiterers about the place. | York but in Cincinnati and in South Mt Healt iirat belead the Ques loiterces see her go in and know | America. Mtizenship of the ty peer Pee RE spa “For three hours to-day 1 was in to murder In New York ot Sow, when she} conference with Miss Booth,” said back heets with | Mrs, Humiston ¢ xeation from | "Miss Booth assured me that the Think ‘i | Salvation Army will offer every co- vAS! GTON 2 ; me. }operation in my effort to save girls. Wanhy TON, JUNO Bie Stato | Mr. « n said that in his |Bhe sald she knew thore were girls | Department has requested the Italian | visit to the Fourth branch on Beb, | chained in cellars not only in New| Government to forward a copy of the 15 at 945 o'clock, he told District | Y9rk but tn Cincinnatl, We Intend to| confession of Alfredo Coceht, in whi ; istrict | oxnose tho evils of the system and eee |e admitted that he had killed ‘Ruth | jSergeant Lagarenne the same sort | that young xirls of this city get pro- | "User Jof suppositious story tection, are o's inmate at Co ; pry somewhat indefinite a | Q. What did you say to Lagarenne? Italy heretofore “has ‘construed he Low THA A. L told bim Ew a most careful | © Ams) treaiy Wik ine nia State fo equire such an extradition, but in view he G d f search of the neighborhood in which Tor Pago |Of the new relations brought about by ardens o my daughter had been last seen tl wi) make OGL es che Wa, St some Ukelthood sais, pointed out that there were a lot of {th nt to foree timations. from ramshackle places thereabouts and!!! i Taallan Mixstor Hudson Si. Ne ; euched here that Govehi | tion might be aecc Mew Yorks § icant jots and I said fo him, ‘I want Puch reached cltize: ent circumstances, ‘she came again Feb. | skates. ' tor | Towels, POLICE SOUGHT COCCHI AS rT ‘* MISSING PERSON, ”* NOT COCCHI DECLARES RUTH CRUGER [S HS ONLY VICTIM inate Tries to Kill Himself After Adding to His Previous Confession. BOLOGNA, Italy, June 25,—After having been again interrogated by Judge Zucconi, Alfredo Cocchi tried to Kill himseif by dashing his head against the stone wall of his cell. Guards quickly overpowered him. For some time he was in a frenzy, but became quiet when the jallers produced a atraitjacket and threat- ened him with it. Ttallan law forbids the giving out of an official version of an interrogation, but, according to an unofficial ver- sion, Cocchi said to Judge Zucconl while recounting bis history in America: “My machine shop gave me a satis- factory position, I earned sometimes $100 a week. I had never seen Ruth Cruger before she came to my shop to have her skates sharpened. From the very boginning I felt something strange when her dark, penetrating eyes were fixed on mine. “I was still more disconcerted when 13 to get her An overpowering attraction the young woman seized me, What happened afterward seems like a dream, My memory at this point falls mo utterly. In view presented, it must be true I at- tacked and killed her, But, God help me, I didn’t mean to, My will power could not resist any more. When I j returned home I was like a person in '& trance, I remember speaking of this peculiar mental®condition, and thought I was ill “I began to realize the gravity of my position the morning of Feb, 15, when newspaper reporters camo to my shop to make inquiries and po- lcemen questioned n I felt then as if I were lost. My only anxicty was to escape. I secured a passport, which 1 kept among my papers, and succeeded in reaching Italy. On my arrival 1 was overcome by remorse. I cannot myself believe that my hith- erto unblemished life has been de- stroyed forever, This ts my first offense, but it is of such a nature that 1 cannot belleve it to be true. The greatest punishment is to think what suffering and agony my wife and children are undergoing, as, not- withstanding our misunderstandings, we love each other most tenderly,” Previously Cocchi had taken a dif- bee ferent line, and declared he had been induced to kill Miss Cruger ause of insults she offered his nationality,” He is being guarded most care- fully and is not allowed to have in his possession any article with which he might make away with himself, bed sheets, suspenders, belt d any cloth with which he might make a rope to hang himself ve been taken away from him, So ‘oo have the metal knives, forks and spoons with which prisoners are usually provided, Cocch! Is in deadly fear that the {talian Government may permit his extradition to America, He bursts |into fits of hysteria when he thinks of that possibility, and he talks of the capital punishment which pre- vails in the United States, But his moods he {s so cheerful Again, is plu despondenc Signor Venturini, counsel for Cocchi, asserted to-day it was im- possible to say much about the case until he had been permitted to see the evidence from the United States and also to learn what witnesses would say in favor of Coccht, “Often persons are accused of crimes under such peculiar circum- stances that they cannot produce any facts to defend themselves,” said Sig- ange, that d Sometimes ho sings, into deep nor Venturini, “Thus their depositions are harm- |ful to themselves, while evidence gathered by friends throws an e rely different light on the alle crime, In any case the extradition of Cocchi is absolutely Impossible un- der our penal c« one? AQUEDUCT | CT WINNERS. 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Roeux, Loos and Hooge, where we raided enemy trenches, killing many and taking several prisoners,” Field Marshal Haig reported. “East of Ver- melles in @ raid wo captured fifteen | prisoners and two trench mortars, remaining in the enemy trenches over two hours, blowing up a dugout and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. jouthwest of Lens and northwest of Warneton successful minor opera- CLOSING QUOTATIONS. With wet ctmagne from previous clodug, |. jot Laat, ch’ BI + ys 41h Low. Allip Chalmers pt mers pd Heet Sugar } N ‘ Kan. 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Here prisoners were brought In, while dur- ing a period of two and a half hours, the British remained in the enem; trenches, Heavy casuatties were In- flicted upon the Germans and thelt) dugouts were bombarded. iH Two more raids were carried out” east of Roeux and in the region of; Vendhuille, while a local push north-* \ west of Warneton secured two ad.) vance post In this affair a bem d | of Germans were killed. PARIS, June 2%—Sharp artitlory ! fighting was in progress con' during the night near Froidment 4 Farm and Chevreux, says to-day's of+ } ficial statement. Following is the text of the War. Office statement: “Unusually active artillery fighting , continued during the night in the sec- tor between Royere and Froldmont } Farms, and also near Hurtebise and} east of Chevreux. Two surprise at- | tacks against our trenches cast off Thovreux cost the enemy losses with- out any other result. German at-j} tacks on our small posts in tha” Woevre and In the region of St, Mihlel » were-checked completely, BBRLIN, June 2 (via London)i— ‘The artillery engagements in’ the? Dunes sector in Belgium and between the Livers Yser and Lys increased in! intensity yesterday afternoon and? continued into the night, army head: j quarters announced to-day, nu wy Pt BANKING AND FINANCIAL, } OOO t ? ‘ Nothing so Interest- ing as High Interest U.S, STEAMSHIP 60, is paying dividends which amount to 19% on the investment You Should study hoag dee Stocks immediately. We furnis detailed information on requeah, 1,8. 8,, £2 Schmidt & Deery 30 Broad St., New York Tel. Broud 6242, DIED. WILLIAM BROWN, THE FUNERAL CHURCH. 66th and O7th ats, Time rat adway, ERCKENS.—June 22, after a short ity JOHN ASTOR ERCKENS, aged The 65 ¥ at German Club. Monday morning, private. O'BRIEN, bia late residence, 112 West 59th at, 10.30, Cant. 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