New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-26
CRIME.
ROBBERY IN JoHN-sT.

ROBBERY IN JOHN-Sl'
On Saturday noon sneak-thief entered the
store OF Messrs Subway & Co.. the second floor Of
No "a John-s, and stole ll00 worth OF gold chains
The prOprietors were absent at the time.
BASEMENT ROW.
Margaret Nolan and Mary Stanton, inmates
OF the low basement saloon No rs Chathams yesterday
morning engaged in nght during which Margaret DIT
under the from tumbler Both women were ar
rested, and yesterday committed to the Tombs
sTABBING AFFRAY IN A SALOON.
On Saturday night, Joseph BreydOn and
AIonEo Jefferson, with several Others had fight In the
saloon No, 34S East Twenty-seyenthst during which
Jefferson slightly wounded in the NECK ana arm ana
BreydOn received severe scalp wound foVo ouikeon
Purdy dressed the wounds OF the men.
THEFT FROM A DRAWER.
On Saturday JnTee men onJoIcu IIe store of
David Brown No 1876 Chrystiest and while two of the
number kept MI Brown in conversation by pricing
various kinds Of the third stole from drawer te7
prisoner gave the name of John Milton he com
mitted
Arrest OF FoRGERs.
! On Friday afternoon, j. Booth called at the
ewelry store Of Edward Jumps No 25 Maidenane, and
selected diamond jewelry to the amount OF t,ln CO.
In payment, he rendered check for that amount pur
porting to be drawn on the Ocean National Bank by H. b.
BurntOn, No. 100 FultOnst and made payable 10 tho
order Of Booth. The check was not certified aud Mr.
Ocean Bank The paying-isleT thought u all right and
when the check shown him. pronounced forgery.
In the mean time the woudbe purchaser had departed
Detective McCarty called In, and while consulting
lad called with order for the property. At tho sug
geston OF MeCarty fictitious package was put up and
given TO the boy, who was followed In COrtandtst the
boy met by Gotlieb Inges, who pointed Booth
Both men then taken into custody aud Saturday
taken before Justice Bowling at the Tombs Booth
there gave the name Of James Watson Both we're
mitted
CITIZENS CLUBBED BY POLICEMEN.
On Saturday, Giuseppe Martini, an elderly Ital-
IAN accompanied by Capt Jourdan Of the Sixth Precinct
called Inspector Diks and made complaint against
PatrOlman Alfred L. Battersby OF the Eighteenth Pre-.
cinct, whom he charged with having beaten HIM IN a
brutal manner. Martini who 10 assistant foreman Of
gang Of street cleaners, and whom Capt Jourdan
scribes an industrious, temperate man. said that Ire
sitting, early on Saturday at the Of Thrdave
and Seventeenthst when the officer came up and de-
manding bis business struck him on the with his
club Martini demonstrated, and told the officer he
waiting for the return OF some OF his men, and again
struck several times by the officer The complaint was
received. and the referred 70 the Board Police
Commissioners. james Wilson and Charles and William
Berry complained that on Friday evening" while passing
through Greenwhieh.st, near Morrisst, they had a
wOrdy alteration with women, during which Pa.
troman John L. Lockwood OF the Twenty seventh Pre-.
cnct came up, and ordering them to move on struck
Charles Berry on the back, uTDg him seriously, and
also struck Wilson the This case has also been
referred 70 the Police Commissioners.