, 1875-01-26
MISCHIEF F-MAKERS,
For Whose Correction Society Keepa
Courts and Prisons.
Some Of Those Who Have Lately Comt
Athwart the Law,

CRIME IN PHILADELPHIA.
Special I)is,ut,ch to The fairaao Tribune.
Pn1LApEtrurA, jan. 25.-At at eatly hour Til,
morning Frank Mc5or!y died suddenly at biz
lcsidouco, No. 2l02 iodine alropt, n dispatch to
which effect MAS tsegrap!od TO tue Cons1al
Station, notifying tho Coronor 10 hold au inquest!
A Blaort ttns after death friand Of deceased
won't to tho Eighteenth District 6tation-l1oune
and Informed Lient. 1lraufnrd that McSorly Ia.
fore lln died, bad nla,lo etatemoht that yester.
tlny afternoon lie l,ad T. fight with one joel liu.
brook, residing at No. 2l3 East Dauphia
street. whore le received Injuries wl!leh
ho beloved wuuld result In death. Tia
Lieutenant at onco ordc1od Ills alon to in.
vosltgate tho matter and secure 1folhrook
ii he could be found. Officer Quick, of tls
Eightoetth District, Look Charge OF tho cast,
and learned that tho decbancd Ind = tnHslo uth
lIolbrook, during which Mcsorly foil. Tho off.
cor took Ilolbr1ok into clstady, and lie will ba
held to await the result Of the Coroner'h inquest
which will determine whether or NOS the case b
| one OF homicide.
/ Yesterday morning. before daylight Lavrencs
Hrnlg and ron,o friends wora walking unictly up
Thirteenth street, aud when shoy wero nboss
Spring Garden stroet two mon WHO were eopg
III ali opposite direction insu'sod them. Enis
turned to tic strangers aud asked tllen
| to explain, hut upon tho inEtant ont
| OF tho twain pulled out knife and cut him IN
tie left side. inilicting dangerous wound: Thu
Gibson, OF tho Eighth District, to tho place, and
| lie chased tho man wilo inflicted the wound q
Thirteenth and Hamilton streets. where hla
progress was itnrcded by Special OItcor Zc!lner.
Tho assaiant WAS then arrested aud taken to the
station-houso, wlero h0 EaYo tho namo ot
| Thomaa Farkinson. subsequently he WAS taken
butore Ald aiaaay, who held him to awRit thu
result Of lis Yictim's injuries. Ernig was con.
veyed by friends to lis home, No. 1877 Stilet
street, where he now 1icB i1l critical couditlou
A TERRIBLE STORY.
Dr.. Ricardo, Of pAssaio, recently mulcted Ia
heavy damages for alleged malpractice In dss.s
ing tho arm OF little boy, il now on trial faE
criminal ohnrge OF aseau!t with Iutont to kill ta
cover up tho malpractice. II is 'olaimA
ho gayo tho lai morphine, and thin
said he would die Tho child survived
that night, Which Baomcd to greatly surprise ths
Doctor ou his arrival tho next morning. Tbs
ne1t night tho snuie watcher was called in, AIT
', he was told that ths CHILD would certainly as
that night, md tho morphine powders wero IT,
dered to be given again, Tile Doctor vent 70 y
tlat night, aud malo arrangements with thla u.
, , dortnkcr for the burial. Ricardo then told tha
watcher, tho undertakor, ard tho mother OF ths
child, TINT it the child died. not to romoyo ths
do 80. The reason that tho child did not t!ie NJ,
u because tho powders Wero not oil gigon es d.
), rectod, only q portion OF them given, tho It,
4 tonant and the mother being alarmed at tue e.
0DHH1se hl2e o. tlle 1ohe. 6eetHE tnAt LIE cAla
: did mt do, Mrs Sclianor bent for DR.. Na.son,
:. an old family physician, who examined !hs
. woundod ariu, and found that it lad mortified
and was partially lccayed tho losh farly falling
= : of from the bone. The arm wos ampntattd
: : and Tho unfortunate little boy (nom 10 ycara oa
: recovered. aud WAS in tho oonrt-room yosterd,y
~ 1t IL alleged that Dr.. Ricardo told Dr. Watson
L. L. in d sort Of professional confidence. that }.
+, ''had given tl,e child twonty-fonr grains d
- morphine, than 1t took to kill Jim Fht''
y These wore the facts that tho counsel for th
~ ~ State aaid ho proposed to prove.