The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-30

The police Of the Twentieth ward yesterday arrested
man named John Mendes warrant issued by Justice
February last past then situated At No $50 Eighth ave.
by the affidavit Of Mr. James G. Elliott of No IS Broad.
way, agent for the Granite Fire Insurance Company,
Utica, that about the 18th day of December, 1852,
ker, for policy of insurance of 81 900 his stock
and furniture, then in the premises No. $50 Eighth
given for $1,O0s. On the 9th of February last
the fire occurred under such circumstances of suspicion
as induced Mr. Elliott to make the complaint; II was
also shown that there much ers of proper
ty in the store than was alleged to be BY Mendez.
was also shown by the affidavit Of Bernard Wartman,
accuseds store that he Mendez the evening Of the
fire. leave the premises only very short period before the
alarm Of fire was given and Mendez store discovered to
Mrs. Sarah Pumer who resided the store Of Mem
dez at the time the FIRE occurred testes that she
Mendez that evening, short time before the fire.
from the yard into the store and after she went
down stairs and found that Mendez had left she returned
back to her room and almost Immediately after return
she heard the alarm Of fire. and down stairs and dis
covered the stors Of Mendez to be on fire. Under the
suspicious circumstance Of the FIRE occurring SO soon
after Mendezs retirement from the store together with
all the other facts in the the magistrate ordered the
arrest of Mendez and placed the whole matter under
Stuart who detained him for further hearing
The Case Of the australian 7cks-In the matter Of Mr.
John Erer who stands charged with selling spurious
passage tickets for Australia in the bark Mary Parker
after the decision of Justice McGrath in holding him to
bail eight complaints to the amount Of - 000 writ
Of habeds corpus application Of his counsel grant
ed yesterday by Judge Roosevelt, who reduced the
amount bail to $780, and ordered that any Of the
order Mr. Eler was taken before Justice Osborn who
took the required amount of ball. and liberated the 40
cused from custody
Yesterday officers Campbell and Spicsr arrested German
named George Feuchtinger and also lawyer,
charged with obtaining from Philip Conrad resident Of
Bridgeport Connecticut, the sum Of five hundred dollars
by Of fraud and threatening letters declaring
posture Of certain matters If the amount Of money
CURED not paid It appears by the aadavts on file
in the police court that all the parties were Germans
city which he complied with, and arrived here
the 10th nst and put at No lib Third street. at
which house was residing young German woman named
bad charged him with being the father Of an Legitimate
child and that unless he signed paper, acknowledging
The proposition was to pay 900 to the woman and
81 500 in securities for the support of the child when
born; and If he refused to comply, Feuchtinger, who
stated he connected with one of the German
newspapers Of this city, would have him published
Under fear Of exposure. and being stranger in
to BRIDGEPORT and not sending the money as per agree
ment he alleges he received another letter from Feucht
niger asking for $780, under threat Of exposure in the
newspapers. Conrad becoming alarmed sent the money
by Christopher Zeer who paid the amount 70 Feuehtin
ger On the examination before the magi srate the law
agency in the matter was therefore liberated from
the complaint but Feuchtinger held to bail in the
sum Of $500 to answer the charge at court.
An Unnatural Mother-AHempt to Destroy her Child-
Yesterday morning, Of the policemen OF the Eigh
tenth ward was the dock foot of Twenty eighth
street, East river, he observed q acting very
strangely and followed her down, when all at she
made attempt to throw her child into the river The
officer being closer to her than che anticipated seized
hold OF her. and thus saved the life Of the infant The
unnatural parent conveyed 70 the station house.
where she gave the Of Mrs. Kane; and in reply to
the inquiry made to her motive Of attempting to de-
sroy her child she said that her husband away in
the country and that she had become miserably poor
and Destitute and had not food to sustain herself and
child and therefore thought the child would be better
Oh dead than alive. The police captain detained the
mother and sent the child which about
two years old, to the Almshouse.
NEW York, March 20, 1852
wish to correct statement in your Police report Of
this morning. headed "A Terrible Assault upon Boy"
My George Wilson flying kite on the top o. my
factory In Thirteenth street. and tho boy Durham com
menced to throw blocks Of wood at him. at the same time
boy my employ, with his head streaming with blood
from deep cut (caused he says, by the boy Dunham
inflicted the terrible wound In young Dunhams head No
clubs beating took place, my roof being about nine
feet above the roof Of There was no sesrcnG
my son has not been absent from shop or home since
the ARRAY You VIII oblige by correcting that missste
ment, and let the world know the truth Respectfully
yours, HY. WILSON, ~ HAST Inirtesntn strsess
THREE MURDERS IN KENTuCKY-James Price,
Il Clay county, KY, killed Lewis Stiven, Of Man
chester, Ky, In an array. WIN. White also killed
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