Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-27
Our New York Dispatches,
The Prize Fighters in I.imbO-scntcnCc
of Dcath-Thc Insurance Men in COun-
ciI-RnId on Policy shops, etc.

| New YORK, May 26.-Collns and Edwards,
| the prize fighters, were arrested late last night
| In this city, and will be brought before the
| Tombs police court this morning.
In the national insurance convention, to-day,
| A. A. Law read an address from the chamber of
| commerce of New York. in which the intimate
and important relations of insurance and mer-
camille interests were fully discussed, special
| prominence being given TO the department of
| fire insurance. The chamber fayors the estab-
| lishment of an insurance bureau in each of the
| states, to which fire companies incorporated by
the other states will be required to report regu-
! larry. Elizur Wright, of Massachusetts, read
paper on the Test of Solvency in Life Iusu-
! rance, and communications were also read
| from the national board of Gre underwriters and
the accident insurance company, both recon-
mcnding greater simplicity and uniformity in
the management Of insurance.
The first regatta Of the season was sailed
| yesterday by five yachts of the Harlem club,
| from Wards Island to Throggs Point and back,
and was won by the Mary Louise in three hours
thirty-four minutes.
Among the newly appointed candidates for
| West Point, already arrived, is Alonzo Napier,
coored, from Nashville, Tenn.
The police to-day made an extensive raid on
| policy shops in all parts of the city, Selling
| over one hundred establishments and arresting
more than five hundred proprietors and patrons.
All who could not give bail were committed for
| trial.
The Methodist book concern committee was
| again in session to-day.
| The Brooklyn choral concert, at the rink last
| night, was attended by over five thousand per-
sons. Gilmore's anvil chorus was performed
with fifty anvils, artillery and five hundred
| voices, producing great enthusiasm. Miss Kel-
logg sang the Star Spangled Banner.
The court of oyer and terminer was crowded
to its utmost extent this morning to witness the
closing scenes of the Foster trial. The prisoner
and counsel held long consultation before the
| formal opening of the court. Mrs. Foster, wife
| OF the prisoner, was not present. District At
| torney Garyin moved that the court pass the
| sentence of the law on the prisoner. Judge
| Stuart said that he would not submit motion
| for arrest of judgment, but after the Judgment
| would sue out writ of error. Mr.. Vanderpool,
| clerk OF the court, asked Foster what he had to
say why sentence OF death should not be passed
| upon him. Foster, who was deeply affected,
only said that he did not mean to murder Mr..
Putnam. Judge CardOzO said that the prisoner
had had patient trial by an intelligent Jury of
his own selection, but the case was too clear to
come to any other conclusion than the one ar
rived at. They recommended him to mercy, but
| that recommendation was for higher tribunal
| to consider. He could hold out no hope what
| ever of Communication of the sentence, and he
| should be prepared to meet his awful doom
The sentence of the court was that be should,
| on the 18th of July next, be hanged by the neck
uHtl liz WAS ucdu dDu MAY tHc LORD nave mercy
on his soul. The prisoner was then given into
the custody of the sheriff, and the court adj
| journed.
Foster has been placed in the condemned cell
| in the tombs. He says but little, and evidently
feels his awful position. He was soon visited
| by "a Sister of Mercy,w remained for more than
| hall an hour in earnest conversation with him
His wife visits him very often, and is overcome
with grief, but his father only called to see him
once. Cunningham, the car driver from whom
Foster took the hook with which he killed Put.
nam, was discharged this morning
Mrs. Annie Clafin, mother of Woodruff and
| Clahn, who mysteriously disappeared on Mon
| day, returned at two O'Clock this morning to the
house of her daughter, Mrs Brooker on Fourth
| avenue. She says she was seized, at dusk Mon
| day night, by two men, while on Thirty-second
street. blindfoldcd, thrust into a carriage and
driven for about two hours, when she was deiv
cred to woman who led her up three flights OF
stairs and locked her in a cell, eight feet by ten
| having a skyght but no windows. She was fec
| only on bread and water, and on the third day
was released as mysteriOusly as she had beer
captured, being taken away in carriage a
| midnight.
George w. Smalley, of the Tribune, arrived
from London on the Rhen, to-day.