The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1919, Page 3

, os ) r\ | . \i NYE Employees’ Vote Is Unanimous ' for Bight-Hour Day and Better Conditions. At two meetings of the men and ‘Women employees of the B. R. T. at Baengerbund Hall, Brooklyn, last night and early this morning it was ‘wnanimously voted to demand %5 cents an hour for an eight-hour day for surface men, elevated guards ond conductors and. proportionate in- reases for men in the mechanical departments. A committee will be named to-day to wait on Receiver Garrison Monday and report to a mass-meeting of the car workers on Tuesday night, Dur- ing the first meeting a telegram wes Peoeived signed “Car Committee of New York,” said to represent. Man- hattan street and subway lines, read- ing: “It & strike order is issued we Now Yorkers of the biue, green and red Car lines will stick firmly together to ‘the end.” P. J. Shea of Detroit, Vice President of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Wiectric Railway Em- ployees, quieted those who were in favor of an immediate strike by de- claring that the meeting had not been called for that purpose but to cn- @eavor to get better working cond tions, Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, sald that the company had just got an increase of two cents for trans- fers and was looking for an increase of fares. He wanted to know low ‘much the employees were to get cut of this or was it all going to the offi- olals. “We want you,” he said, “to got decent treatment, wages and conii- tions, but your employers have r fused to listen to you in the pa —_—.— MANY PREFER WALKING TO PAYING FOR TRANSFER One Conductor Sells Ten in Time It Used to Take to Give Away 150. The second day of the two-cent transfer charge opened with auch bright, gol, weather, that many persons walked lo-day, instead of buying transfers, A Seventh Avenue conductor said he had sold only ten transfers in the time it used to take him to give away 160. ‘On a crowded car a man got @ trans- fer and when the condactor demanded two-cents advised him to “come and get i" The man didn’t pay, There were more complaints on the lower east side than elsewhere, but gen- erally They had been instructed lot the passengers have their own way in case of argument, but the order was 1" most of those who got _no transfers. ber, said he would rather than be bothered with RA tas SE MOTHER OUT, BARY POISONED ) Inquiry Seeks to Ran Down Gradge Hint. ‘The death of Solomon Kramer, nine months old, son of Abraham Kramer, of No. 589 SheMeld Avenue, Brooklyn, fm the Kings County Hospital, was under investigation by Detective ,Dougherty of the Miller Avenue station to- Mrs. Kramer, returning from shopipng yesterday, found the child Sereaming “and {rothing at the mouth. ‘The surgeons at the hospital said there ‘was evidence of poisoning by a strong ‘antiseptic preparation. Detective Dougherty said he was in- terested in having Medical Examiner Malien ald him in Je ning whether @ vraon who might have had a gru Against the Ki jas implicated In the child's TWO KILLED. ON TRESTLE. Hesband of W m Victim of ‘Train Tries to Drown Himself. MILFORD, Conn., Aug. 2.—Lewis J, ‘Tillman, twenty-seven, and Mrs. Daniel J, Donnegan, twenty-three, both of New Maven, were killed last night when they were struck by a Boston express train while walking across the Indian River trestle on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. After the accident the woman's husband, who had crossed safely, tried to end his life by jumping into the river, but was re- strained, ‘alnes “ Tillman, & foreman for the Winches- ter Repeating Arms Company, and Mr. and Mrs, Donnegan were returning from « crabbing excursion at Oyster River. Brought Back on Murder Charge. “famuel Price, colored, former jani- tor at No, 403 East 115th Street, wa rought back from Retterton, Md., to- lay to face trial on the eharge that he jurdered aud robbed Jacob. Price, ‘hite, an old clothes buyer, on May 19. dn Price America’s own, table drink with a flavor similar to coffee — INSTANT "THREE COPS WHEN. Law Had Required Policemen to Gaard Helpless Cripple 22 Months. ‘Mizs Rhoebe Williams, thirty-three years old, of No. 188 10th Street, Brooklyn, who was arrested on Rept. %, 1917, on @ complaint charging her with attempted suicide, was arraigned jon that complaint yesterday be‘ore Magistrate O'Neill in Holy Family Hospital. And—one year, ten months and five days after her alleged offenso— was discharged for lack of corrobora- tive evidence, Late yeqterday afternoon Detective William Forker of Inspector Bernird Hayes’s staff stepped up to the bench in the Fifth Avenue Police Court, Brooklyn, and told the Magistrate how much everybody woutt appre- ciate it if he would authorize Miss bil prt discharge. “She jumped from a thi; story Window, Your Honor,” suid “Worker, “and was picked up in the street with arms, legs and thighs fractured, For nearly two years she hag been both patient and prisoner in Holy Family Hospital, and what worries the Boss —with policemen quitting every day on account of the cost o’ living and one thing and another—is that under the law it takes three cops a day to! guard a woman who cannot move without her crutches!” “You mean to say”— “I mean that a prisoner in a hos- pital is under police guard and the| guard works in shifts of eight hours. | ‘Three cops a day for one year, ten! months and seven days.” Magistrate O'Neil took stenographer John Cunningham, assistant clerk of court Kearng and the officer and went | to the hospital in his own car. Miss Williams was propped up in bed and “arraigned.” Nobody could testify oue way or another about the case, Since she went to the hospital her father died, He mother is living up-State. The Magistrate discharged her. In a few days she will join her mother in @ little village and .Inspector Barney Hayes's force will be increased by three, Cost Men $350,000 in Wages and Public About $1,000,000 in Extra Fares, CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Street car ser- vice was resumed to: y after a four- day strike of, surface and elevated car men, Resumption of traffic fol- lowed the announcement that the men had voted to accept the wage schedule of 65 cents an hour for 67 for the eleva on Monday by the theads of the unions and the companies, Hearings were bei ith Kun to-day by the State Public Utilities Commission to determine what raise in fa necessary to the 17 cents iners ein wages It is said a 7 cent fare on surface lines and an 8 cent fare on elevated roads will be granted. In addition a one-cent shes for transfers may be authorize: e employees originally 0} the the, en and the extra fares. of hat mia the GOMPERS’ CANDIDATE WINS. m $350,000 in wag: lic nearly $1,000,000 in AMSTERDAM, Friday, Aug. 1 (Asso- elated Press).—-W. A. Appleton, Secre- tary of the General Federation of Trades Unions of Great Britain, who to-day was elected Presidept of the Interna- tional Trade Union Federation, was pro- for the office by Samuel Gompers, dent of the American Federation of r. Appleton was chosen by 31 votes as aguinst 12 for President Oude- geest of the Dutch Labor Federation, Leon Jouhaux, the French labor lead- er, was chosen first vice presndent, re- ceiving 30 votes to 19 for Carl Rudolph Legien, President of the German Fed- eration of Trades Unions, M. Mertens, the Belgian leader, was elected second vice president. —=-——. FIREMEN OVERCOME BY-GAS, Twe Lost Consciousness im Small Biase in Baseme: ‘Two firemen of Engine Company No. 2 were overcome by illuminating gas while fighting @ small blaze in the basement of No, 141 West 4th Street last night, They were Lieut, William Murphy and Frank Reardon. ‘The fire in the basement occupied by the Dixy Auto Sales Company started in some rubb! arden a> SE CERTIFICATE FOR WOUNDED. War Department Approves Special Token tor Soldiers. WASHINGTON, Avg. 2.—A special certificate to be issued to soldiers wounded in the war with Germany has been approved by “the War Depart- ment. It will bear at the top. the legend “Columbia gives to her sons the accolade of the new chivalry of hu- manity,” and below the name, rank and unit of the soldier und the’ action in which he was wounded. te ar. x BROTHER AND SISTER DROWN mer, fourteen, and Evelyn, nine, while boating on a pond here last night, were drowned, the lad, a swimmer, Having in New Salvaging Submarine ‘ | | Aba OFFICER REVEALS) AUTO ARE MISSING) UNC tioned to Be | Disappearance at Same Time|Says Vi Gives Police and Parents a | i ' Ex Meaning, of , Prohibition Bill. An opinion by Blin Root, D. Guthrie and William L. regarding the legality of the sale beer with a weight content of 2.76 cent, aleohol was made public Tt te addressed to Christian W. genspan, by whom the test case for 2.75 per cent. beer was initiated: ‘The lawyers state a® 2 premise that ~~ this morning by @n officer acti: the Investigation of naval offenses. ‘The disclooures came while naval! Forrest, building contractor, No, 27 officers wore discussing the action of| Cambridge Street, that city, discov. Junior Lieut, Benoit J. Mitert’s|¢red that Marguerite, his seventeen- : change of front when he pleaded |7@*r-old daughter was gone, if>|the objects of the Volstead till are ruilty to aix specifications of forty. |%#ked the police to find her, to prohibit the mle of ini EP five im the charge on which he was| At about the same time Michael | beverages, to regulate the oi belie trtéd. Connelly, iron manufacturer, No, 286! ture, sale and wie of high proof «pir: — ‘The officer referred to remarked |80uth Burnett street, Kast Orange, | Ite for other than beverage purposes, — mornths: Soe can use tis favorite automo- bead! beeen the bose d and we of in weventeen-year-old son, it in ‘ecalled indust alcohol. ‘ viously and the pias of Bilert yeaors| Vinee'it, were gone. Ho asked the| But, according to the opinion, ft day wilt not ond the ‘Third Navai|>2liee to find them, “seems clear that the provisions of — District savestt ‘The Navy |_ Chl of Police ONeill, confronted | title 1. of the Volstead Bill would BS 1 | Depattment has an abundasice of| "itt the Job of finding one girl, one !enlarge the scope and operation” of the charges to try yet. There are many boy and one automobile, decided that | Wartime Prohibition Bilk ‘The lawyers meen ahs Soave tried, tb pet tut of the the first of the three to look for ought | recite that the United States Court of dervied taht have, been beet to be the auto, Autos are large ob- |the Southern District of New York has Jecte which frequently need gasoline | ruled that the wartime prohibition aot Boe aaa aaatees sn ulm, the Chet waren DF [prehiie “only Intseting mal anki 3 n against them are austained through | arcu te ast thele mon seatiotne sce {vinous Natiors and dove not theretery 1 BURED ALE INGRAVES THEY DUG I RUSSIA German Red Cross Workers Claim Czech Troops Shot Down Prisoners. “You are in a Siberian prison. You look out the window. Czech troops are lining up Bolshevist prisoners. ‘They are given picks and shovels. “Dig your graves,’ is the order. “They dig. And when a big hole !s made the Czechs shoot the prisoners. Some fall dead. Others are wounded. They fall into the grave, The Czechs jump in and bayonet them. The hole is filled up while the mortally wounded are still alive and in their death agony.” Such is the story of Julius Baer, member of the German Red Cross Commission to Siberia, a former wealthy chemical manufacturer of Germany, told here to-day before leaving on the Oscar Il. for the Fatherland via Sweden. Mr. Baer Is one of thirty-six who have been spending ten days at the Pennsylvania Hotel under escort of Department of Justice agents. They are returning home after being pris- oners: the Kolchak Government at Oms! ince Red Cross work- ers are in the party. Two members of the Swedish Red Cross, six of the Austrian Red Cross and German officers and civilians who were prisoners of the revolutionary Governments of Russia for five years are in the party, They came here from Vladivostok, The women Red Cross workers re- port that they took money and sup- plics into Russia in 1915, but that these were stolen after being dis- tributed. Miss Marie Wenzel be- moans the fact that Germans were compelled to live on cabbage and soup. Sister Elsa Brandstrom, daughter of the former Swedish a bassador to Petrograd, protested obtained the release of the party through Capt. Schuyler of the U. 8. Army in the American Embassy at Stockholm. The party stayed in Viadivostok five weeks before getting @ steamer, Among th in the party are Baroness Lena von Wedekind, Count Haver Scholffgotech, Dr. Wilhelm Bultmann, Dr. Walter Arndt and Dr. Leopold Petri. —_—__ TWO TRUCKS HIT CHILD. Rap Ov. im Struck Mary old, of No 139 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, war run down by a truck in Montrose Avenue near Leonard Street to-day she dropped from the end of mobile on whic hshe was st ride. The chaueur of the truck, John O. Scollon, of No. 415 West 26th Street, Manhattan, put the child into the car of Louls Katzwa, of No. 764 Williams Avenue, and started for St. ‘athe - rine'’s Hospital. In front of the 8 st fon Katzwa's cab was hit xax Oil truck and was hurled against an electric light pole, MY Was cure OA to the ital “In an” ambulance,” Her leg broken and probably Will have to be amputated <n i. COURT WARNS CONEY GIRLS. Brooklyn advised by lagistrate Dale to-day to beware of “young fellows with high collars and Senate voted for ratification Thuradi Nebraska is the fourteenth Stats ratty, ‘The | boy tried to save his slater. fine sults’—thus avolding the predica- Pa Sst ment of Dorothy Pailipa, who jtian't. 14th State for 5 rothy, age sixteen, No, 389 Put- 5 bacon rere gk ive be nam Avenue, and Robert Beckman, | WASHINGTO! —Sportamen a vatified the Federal Wansan|cighteen, No. 808 Rockaway Avenue. | und business concerns interested tn to-day ratified the Federal Woman|were arraigned on a charge of Vag-|cvition will be given an opportunite Suffrage amendment when the House] rancy In the Flatbuah Court this | Sviation s pportunity by a vote of 94 to 0 passed a joint|morning. The girl and the Beckman|to acquire modern seaplanes at low Fasolution. providing. ratification, y had met at Coney Island. rices when the Navy Department sells 0 to Coney again,” od Men and Women in’ Street ‘Clothes Explore Sea’s Bot- tom in Invention Expected to Rescue $6,000,000,000 ~ Worth of Ships. The exhibition by Simon Lake, in- ventor of submarines, of his cruising diving bell, was generally discussed by wrecking and salvage experts in this elty to-day. Lake gave a dem- onstration yesterday off Penfield Reef, near Bridgeport, Conn., of his newest craft, the Argosy-Angonaut TIL, with which he expects to raise $6,000,000,000 worth of ships sunk during the war, Guests at the demonstration walked from the deck of the boat through an fron tube to a diving bell with alr locks which was pressed down to the bottom of the Sound, Wearing their ordinary street clothes, they walked on the damp sand at the bottom. Afterward, when they had removed their ghoes and stockings, the bottom of the sea searcher was so raised that, thirty feet.iunder water, the ‘party, of which four were women, waded along with “killies” nibbling ‘their ankles, and picked up starfish on periwinkles dnd lots of new lar salvage boats, according to Lake, can guck up untold treasure in the way of wrecked cargoes through tubes like those of dredging boats. ‘The chip is to begin operations next week on salvaging 4,000 tons of coal sunk off Norwalk harbor. OFICERS BEATE N HOLDUP, BLANE TWO THEY ARREST Steamship Men Demand Police Squad Help Them to Catch Assailants. | | Two of the alleged gang which has been terrorizing the’ neighborhood of 11th Avenue in the lower Forties, near where a short time ago Former Sheriff Griffenhagen was held up and robbed, were held for assault this morning in the Jefferson Market Police Court, as @ result of the determined efforts of Lieuts. J, A, Mayo and Lester Owen of the U. 8, Shipping Board's steamer West Modus. The officers were of a party at- tacked by more than a score of young roughs, while they were returning to thelr ships last night, James May- bury, cook of the Modus, is in Bellevue, and two others of the crew, in addi- tion to the officers and the mate, were badly beaten by the gang who used blackjacks, bricks and knuckte dusters. As soon as Mayo and Owens had their injuries attended to, they went tc the West 87th Street police station and demanded that they be given a squad of police to arrest their assall- ants, Peter Youngeworth, of No. 544 Eleventh Avenue, and James Max- well of No, 618 Eleventh Avenue were arrested, “Assaults of the kind on men from the ships have been frequent,” said Lieut. Mayo this morning, “and there is no police protection whatever. Now we have insisged upon @ regular patrbl in the neighborhood while sveamers are in the docks. Men of the crews run up to Eleventh Ave- nue for a glass of beer, and whon they refuse to buy a drins or give money to these loafers they are set upon and beaten.” an Laan EE 265 SEAPLANES AT AUCTION. The Argosy-Argonaut ITL and simi- } AUTOKILLS GIRL ASSHE STEPS OFF CARIN BROOKLYN Two Bronk Girls Are Injured, One Seriously, as Auto . Turns Turtle. One girl was killed, two injured and a woman burt in motot mis- haps early to-day. Charlotte Bierschank, sixteen years oid, stepped off a trolley car in front of the Young Woman's Home, No. 49 Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn, where she lived, and was struck oy an automobile driven by Otto Neu- man, No. 1047 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, who has just returned from service in France, She died before reaching the Greenpoint Hospital, Dorothy Sanders, eighteen, No. 1944 , Wilkins Avenue, and Pauline Tannen- baum, twenty, No. 4452 Wilkins Ave- nue, the Bronx, were injured when an automobile in which they were riding turned over at Boston Road and 180th Street, Catherine Felman, No. 4438 White Plains Avenue, owner, who was on a back seat, and William Sulsberger, the driver, were not hurt. The accident was caused by the swerving of the car to avoid hitting & motorcycle. Miss Sanders was taken to Fordham Hospital in a serious condition from internal in- juries and a broken collar bone. Miss Tannenbaum went home. Mrs. Nellie Goddard, forty-one, No. LAN Ridgewood Avenue, Richmond inl, her was cut by flying ne whe husband's automobile collided with one driven by Louis Verbi of No, 277 West 116th Street and Con- course Avenue, the Bronx. NEIGHBORS BREAK DOOR TO SAVE TWO CHILDREN Parents Both Away, Babies Were Crying and There Was Odor of Gas; Court Holds Father, Tenants of the apartment house, No. 118 Van Horne Street, J broke In the door of th Mrs, Margaret Knapp, 22 years old, when they heard her two vhildren, Michael, four years old, and Margaret, one, crying, and detected the odor of Mri Knapp was away at the 4s was her husband, Joseph. ‘The young mother was detained thts th @ of disorderly con- duct, Mrs, Knapp declaring, accord- ing to the police, that he had been neglectful and cruel to her and the family. The children this morning showed little effects from thelr ex- perience. GERMAN CHARTER ADOPTED; * WOMEN ARE GIVEN VOTE New Constitution Also Provides for Councils of Workers and Employers. BERLIN, Aug. 1.—The black, red and gold fag of the new German Republic floated for the first time over the Na- tional Assembly at Weimar to-day fifth anniversary of declaration ef war, The constitution of the new regime, adopted yesterday, provides the basis of @ genuine democracy, with mea and Germeny's first ployers’ ‘The processes for free economic development aro outlined, to be elaborated further with respect to financial and taxation at the next session of the will be built at Card Place, Wimhurat, The or- der for the bridge was signed by Pub- 5 machines at auction im the ni future. Secretary Daniels has hor! the sale, r lic. Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon thig morning, ty owners pro- Wesled agains! | wae Bilert was in the Naval Reserve in| But Sow Yorker's Daughter Stirred . the | trials. ‘The end is not yet. We still have a mass of dita to present. It became known through the sam source that one of the violations to be investigated through court mar- tial was that of selling the questions for examinations and the answers to them, Another matter to be inquired ‘nto is the sale of Government supplies and waste, Seven officers and men have already been convicted on charges growing out of the organised sale of promo- tions, exemptions and assignments in the Third Naval District during the force, The tetal amount the Navy Department alleges Ellert realized was between $18,000 and $25,000, the bribes ranging from $50 to $2,500. The investigation began Nov. 18. The six specifications to which Eligrt pleaded guilty summed up and included nearly all the allegations which were given in detail! in those that had gone before. ‘Two of the six included the names of twenty-four youths, most of them around to set their men watching fur the auto. He thinks that if the auto ie found the rest of the job may be 1d the police. that his deuguter © police and Mr. Connelly’s eon were friends and bad grown childhood in the same neigh! He did not suggest (hat there was ything sentimental ship, but ti bad been ‘good friends. piss “egingead A ck and supposedly gone to ‘The Connelly doy la a spirited young person. M he . re dressed up in his older brother's arm: wniform, Nook his father’ omen bile and drove it to Philadelphia. There was a smash-up. He left t! ear and boarded a train for Was ington, where the police, a! quest of his father, gat! and shipped him home. He was put TO SIT IN WOMEN'S COURT Will Sit Only in the Domestic Re+ from moneyed families, who by Ei- Jert's plen had puld for safe places while their country wae at war, Some of them, seeing the di draw close, had paid to for aa- mission to the Naval Reserves, and once in had paid again for reoom- mendation to a shore berth in New York City. Capt. Roy C. Smith, President of the Bilert Court, sald to-day that reply had been received from t} navy officials in Washington ad what course the courtmartial shoul ursue on Ellert’s plea of guilty. Bourt was adjourned to-day untill Monde tood that the maximum penalty een years’ Imprisonment on each count. 4 —_—_——S KIDNAPING MYSTERY FADES. U_ Frisco Sleuths, Howe SAM FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.+Virginia Byington, the nine-year-old daughter of W. H. Byington, formerly of New York, who threw the entire detective force of San Francisco into @ furore over her Tnysterious _ disa; rance from the Fairmont. i wt night, ended to her parents’ apartmen' this her ‘mor: ine Feported that she had nl she fone to. Merkely to spend the night with fri ‘lends. Mr. By! formerly was vice-presl- Oe ah ele eran li oe Fal doa 512 Fifth Avenue, COURT PITIES PRISONERS. Magistrate Asks tigate Policemen’s Conduct. ‘Two prisoners appeared to-day In the Fifth Avenue Court, Brooklyn, so badly battered that Magistrate O'Neill wrote letters about them to Police Commis- sioner Enright, asking for an investiga- (ton, ‘The prisoners were Hans Miland, twenty-nine, of No. 418 334 Street Brooklyn, arrested for disorderly con- duct. by Patrolman Salvatore Menié! of the Fourth Avenue Station and Freder- Ick: Erfekson, twentyseven, arrested by Patrolman Hen. Wilder of the Wilson Avenue siation on @ similar complaint. The policemen sald they were com: pelied to use their sticks. Each prisoner presented what Magistrat O'Neill de- scribed in hia letters as a “terrible speo- tacle.” Reading to Pronk thems! Law © PHILADELPHIA, Deading, Lord Clilef Justice of England, will preside as Honorary President at the next meeting of International Law, Association on Oct. § in Plymouth, England, it was announced here to-day nels Rawle of the association's ecutive Committee. Young Widew Asks Control of Estate of Millions, Consuela Careras de Arocena, young widow of Ra: & petition to adm! rix of his whieh ahe says is worth $1, in per- sonal property end m s more in other holdings. Arocena died June 13 last at the Plaza Hotel His home lations Court, It Is Stated, Stated. After @ mooting of City Magistrates yesterday in the office of Chief Mag- latrate McAdoo, it was learned that Magistrate Mancuso hereafter will sit in the Domestic Relations Court, Manhattan, instead of the Women's tions in his court of “pitt cou disorderly conduct. Magistrate Mancuso Offers Corree- A Record of Reversals. of The Brening World: Reading the evening edition of The New York World of July 31, I ob-|© served an acco’ said paper of the reversals had by the Court of General Sessions from my judgments. You stated in the said publication that there were seventeen reversals and seven ap- peals pending from the period com- mencing Aug. 8, 1818 to July 10, 1! I beg to call your attention to th fact that the cases reported by you are in the majority erroneous and that the information which you av to the public was incorrect, as a care- ful investigation and’ examination of the court records will disclose, It appears that this publication wa: done with a malicious intent to in- jure me in the eyes of the public. ‘The number of reversals of the cases Published by you in yesterday's eve- Bing edition are in fact six and not seventeen, In the case of Sam Nikition, a case of seditious remarks, Judge Crain re- versed my judgment of conviction and ordered a new trail, The said new trial is now pending in the Mag- latrates’ ‘ourt, Hatriot, whereas in your publfcation no such statement appears that id case is still pending, In the cases of Louis Jackson, John Downing, George Irving, Charies Easter, Henry Reld, Jacob Simon, Farley Cooper, James Cook, Bugen: Brown and William Teller, you have published the seme prohibit non-intoxicatingbeer.” 2.76 per cent. of aleohol by shall be declared “intoxicat! al until takes assertions orde; John Vice President of the Ce tional Bank of Virgini cause wh: examination aa to in ‘The new legislation “of the Volstead * though not in fact, the Eighteenth ‘The opin wells on the repeated Preside: ton. o' nt that (he it published in the ti nepan will be ~ judge Davis SEEKS $20,000 ASSETS. Surrogate Cohalan to-day signed an rin discovery proceedings directing |. Bergen, seventy-seven years olf, | / " he should no! ye ae al his possession, which were care by his brother, $eorme who diea in this eity ig a A papers set for! The former alleges Mr. Bei case the nineteen defendants were ar- rested charged with the offense of what ts commonly known as crap shooting. Of the nineteen defendants some were affirmed and others were reversed by Judge Melntyre. How- ever, John Downing and Jacob Simon were affirmed, In the case of Louise Browni: appeare that the de! obtained ma m In the cases of Sally Kobin you have reported these two a# separate and distinct cases, whereas the court records wil! show that same was one case and should have been #o reported by you. Of the cases puDlished by you it ap- pears from the records of the Aj Bureau of our office that the following reversals were had: 1, John Coyle. 3. Lallian Kahn and Sallie Kobin. Helen Edwards, Warren C, Blackman, 6. Elsie Rogers, ‘The others are still pending. was in the city of Torreon, Mexico. oo Roy's Shall Fractured in Fall from Swing. Hdwin Crosby,-ten years old, of No. 16 Hast 41st Street, fell fro ma swing in the yard to-day and suffered i was taken ork bl hah a a ia ‘Trusting that you will retract or correct the erroneous statement pub- shed by you regarding the disposl- tion of these cases, I am yours very truly, ¥.x. bar: (this try y Magi , New York, Aug 1, his possession assets of hii eatat 2 fuses to turn over to valued at $20, the estate,