Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-08
Our New York Dispatches,
Baby BrOkernge-TO be HUn%-ROsenZ-
weig-PrOceeIings Against Tnmmany-
Judge BaTnnrd's EnjumctiOn-A Eliot
MISUNDERSTANDING Process Ordered
by one who needs il, etc.

New YORK, Sept. 1.-THE following card is
published :-"As there are two committees of
eminent citizens now seeking common objects,
viz: unraveling the accounts OF the controllers
office, | beg leave to make the following offer:
If the city authorities will submit the books
pay roll vouchers and returned checks TO one or
both committees, viii engage to point out in
less than half an hour Il sufficient number of
entries, endorsements and receipts for moneys
paid out to prove all that has been charged.
Respectfully, MATTHEW j. O'ROURKE,
Late of the Controllers Office"
large number of citizens assembled this
morning in the supreme court chambers, Judge
Barnard on the bench, as it was understood that
an application would be made on behalf of John
Foley as taxpayer, for an injunction to re-
strain the mayor, controller and others from
paying out money for the expenses of the city
and county governments, except out of the bal
anCe left of the appropriations Of the last c9isla
ture after paying the state taxes and the public
debt, principal and interest due in the curren!
year. EX-Judge Barrett made Il lengthy argu-
ment in support of the application claiming
that the state affairs required this action. At
the conclusion of his address, Judge Barnard
said: ''You are entitled to your order, sir, "
thus granting the relief asked for.
Joseph Schneider, a German, seventeen years
old, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen on
Ridge street, this noon, by James McGann, a
young rough of the fourth ward. Schneider
fell TO the sidewalk, and McGann threw his
knife into the street and escaped.
Rosenzweig applied to-day to be admitted to
bail on the grounds that the coroner had adj
mitted illegal testimony, that there was no legal
| proof the body was that of Miss Bowlesby that
the decomposcd state of the body was an efIec-
tual bar to Identification, that there was no
testimony TO prove an illegal operation had
been committed, that whether the body was that
of Miss Bowlesby or not, there was no proof
that she was seen alive in his company, and
that the testimony did not warrant the tide of
popular teen" against him. Judge Cardoza
held that there was sufficient evidence to justify
the detention ofithe prisoner and he therefore
refused the application for bail
The baby brokerage business of this city is
curiously Illustrated in the case of DIR. Willett
| No. 36 West 44th street, who received $50 to
take charge Of a baby and keep it until some
respectable person would adopt it. But an hour
or two after the receipt of the child and money
the former was left at the door of the founding
hospital, suffering from some powerful narcotic
Which Willett had administered. All the parties
connected with the affair were brought before
Inspector Dilks yesterday but as the mother of
the child had no complaint to prefer against the
doctor, he was allowed to 90. The mother took
the child to her home in Newark,
Gov. Hoffman has definitely refused to inter-
fere with the execution of Buckhouts sentence
He heard three hundred applications for pardon
at Sing Sing yesterday.
The Express this evening declares Judge
Bamard's injunction to be practically nugatory,
as it only forbids issuing city bonds, all of
which authorized by the legislature, ar0 al
ready issued and negotiated, except the Viaduct
railway bonds, which arc not yet called for
An injunction against further tax collections
and the payment of accrung liabilities was re-
fused
The citizens committee of seventy to-day ap-
pointed subcommittee on bylaws, ways and
means and remedies; to the latter was referred
the resolution that the principle of minority rep
resentation should be incorporated in the city
charter. The committee decided to exclude
reporters from its deliberations, but to cons
municate the results to the public
The boulevard workmen Of this city have not
been paid for five weeks, and riot is immi-
nept.
Controller Connolly today ordered all the pub
lie markets Of the city cleansed and disinfected
daily.
Capt. Israel r. Seeley, of Union course, l.. l.,
successor to Hiram Woodruff and well known
among sporting men, died yesterday,
This evening, David Dorian, a Young man.
while trying to protect from insult a young Girl
attending refTeshment counter at the Jones
woods picnic grounds, was stabbed in the
breast by party of ruffians, and died in few
moments. The murderer escaped.