The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-22
NEW YORK.
Sailor shot.


New YORK, Oalober 2l Morton
Gettis, g sailor, was shot and instantly
killed to-day BY Thos. Clark, at
LIQUOR store on Cherry street. Clark
and q man named Watts were both
drinking at the bar when the former
drew a revolver and began firing indi8-
crimisately and in the most wantor
manner Gett;a. who was an entire
stranger, was shot in the heart and in
s,antly expired. Clark was arrested.
Democratic R'jaiciuE.
| One hundred guns were fired al City
| Hall Park to day br the Democrats in
honor Of the election OF Allen IS Gov
ernor OF Ohio.
National Life InsurnnCo Company
Judge Fsncher to-day appointed Fl
| Bernard as receiver OF tine National
Life Insurance Company. upon petition
O; JOSEPH Wild, a slockholder, setting
'orth that the reserve capital Of the
company had been impaired 10 the ex-
tend o. over $l6O 00O
s,ruEgicd Goods.
4 large quantity Of valuable laces
struggled from Europe and seized BY
the customs authorities WAS to-day cou-
demned by tue U. S. District Court.
The laCts were intended for part OF q
young ladies wedding outfit.
Couftssion.
One cf the police officials said las!
night that the principal allegations
against Captain Irving and detective
Farley are contairel in MacDonald's
confession. He made it 10 Newgate
prison, in London, four hours after his
sentence. Macdonald said the plot 10
rob the Bank OF England was arranged
in this CITY, and the originstors Cf il
subscribed about sixty thousand dollars
in gold to carry the plot into execu-
ton. The MacD D1ueld aud Bidwell
! brothers went to Val paraiso and swim
dled bank OF twenty thousand dollars
10 gold, which wss added to the COM
mon fund. Macdonald says hat de-
tectives were aware OF his plans rom
the commencement, and that he ior-
varded Farley four hundred dollars in
! q registered letter from London. He
adds that he telegraphed to Irving his
departure for this city after the bank
! iorgeries had been discovered, and that
J il was in re rouse to his telegram that
Irving and Farley met him on the
steamer Thuriuga on her arrival here.
| He says they told him there
was sheriff in readiness 10 attach
! his property and that il he had any
valuab,es they would take them. Ac-
cordrng to Mac Donald's story, he had
about twenty thousand dollars 10 gold,
seventeen thousand FIVE hundred dollars
in United States fve-twenty bonds g
diamond worth two thousand dollars,
and other articles OF jewelry OF the
value OF two thousand dollars. He says
he surrendered his property to the de-
tecuves, and they promised 10 raise
money in securing his escape. lie
saws ne never saw any OF the money
afterwards, with the exception OF five
| Thousand dollsrs, which they gave him
to pay bic counsel Mayor Havemey-
er says when s2oken 10 about the mat
ter, that he did not believe that there
we're two more trustworthy men on the
detective io.Cs. The detectives. how
ever, have united 10 the demand ia. AZ
iovestigali00, ard deny retaining the
property obtained from the Mac D maid
affair. 1t }oo&2 now ike quarrel ior
the pos-eSsion OF the reward offered by
the Bank OF Ecglaud Tor tEc arrest OF
tue iorgers, and the parties said 10 be
iutereated are the detectives and Sher-
rt's o;Scers and Messrs. Plukerton Il
Go, private detectives. Police Com
IN ssioner Gardner says that the last
named. as suear IS be could learn
prompted the proceedings.
InycstIgaiins the Bank of England
Forgertex.
The Police Commissioners met to-
day to investigate the charges against
| Captain Irving and Detective Farley,
accused OF keeping bsck certain part
OF the proceeds OF the Bank OF England
torgeries, brought TO this country by
George Mcdonald. TIE Commission
ers are very rsiicspt DC tbs subject. Il
has hees learned, howe7s7, that Ae.