The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-05
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, February

NEW L DIRK, EeDIuary -4s
r. B Pente, the Park Bank robber,
was yesterday sentenced to five years
in the State Prison.
A resident OF Brooklyn, recently,
while laboring under the insane idea
that some one was trying to rob him,
took his watch and $500 out on the
street and gave them to the first stran-
ger he met. The stranger has not yet
returned them, although the Brooklyn
ite has become sane again.
There Is at present At the Tombs
twelve murderers, two of whom are
women. Most OF these prisoners W ere
arrested during the past month.
The annual report OF the MetrOpOli-
tan Police shows that there were 6S,-
45l arrests made during the past year,
of which 3l,6GS were females. OF
these arrests, IS were for murder.
1t is stated that additional facts have
been obtained, clearly establishing that
Maher, now under arrest, was the MUIR
derer of Rogers. Among them it will
be establish ed that the coat given
Maher was worn by the accused on the
morning of the perpetratiOn OF the
stabbing.
Senator Henderson of Missouri arriv-
ed in town yesterday, and leaves by
the Moro Castle for Cuba to-day, for
his health.
The Tribune prints u letter from ex-
Governor Brown and ex-senator FOote
and others of Tennessee, concerning
universal amnesty and impartial sui
frage.
Tho Times says of tho recent develop
ments relative to the evasiOns of Inter
nal revenue taxes in Wall street, that
when Mr.. Webster came into office a
few months ago, he found large class
of people who claimed TO be brokers'
and who had taken out brokers' license
which is fifty dollars, and who in
reality were bankers and ought pro-
perly to have been paying license as
such, which is one hundred dollars and
over 5000 capital. Many brokers
and large stock and banking houses re-
ported no capital at all. None returned
any deposits as taxable. Mr.. Webster's
purpose is to make these people pay
their nrrearages during the past fifteen
months. So several houses have alrea-
dy come forward to comply with the
assessors view of the case OF Webster's
ruling. 1t is sustained that the law i'm
poses tax of l-24th of one per cent. on
capital employed US applicable to the
daily temporary loans negotiated by
brokers upon stocks, gold, &c. The
income from this source alone, in Mr..
Webster's district, will be over three
millions of dollars added to tho public
revenue.
Edward Boyle alias Francis, was be-
fore Recorder Hackett, to-day, for sem
tence, having pleaded guilty of feloni-
us assault and battery.
Assistant District Attorney Hutchings
said it had been stated in the newspa.
pers that the prisoner was wanted in
Michigan, for the murder of the Sheriff
OF K llamooza county. Capital punish
ment has been abolished in Michigan,
and therefore, in the event of conviction
there, he could only be sent to States
prison for life; but as sentence could be
pronounced on the pleas for a very
long term it would be better for the
Court 10 make his punishment quick
and severe here, as warning 10 the
desperate men who were infesting the
city, large class OF them coming from
other cities to pursue their lawless avO-
cations. He moved therefore that
the judgment OF the law be pronounced
on the prisoner.
The prisoner was sentenced to forty
years simprisonmentiu in the States prison.