The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-11
SOME QUEER PHASES OF LIFE
a TRIAL IN WHICH MANY THINGS ARE
INCIDEAT tally SHOWN UP.

INCIDEN TALLY SHOWN UP.
Farmer Bowman's Fatal Liking for Liquor
Ills Dealings with Threc-FInHered Jack
ana with Detective who has Retired.
Mr. James Bowman, n wealthy farmer OF
Cochocton. Sullivan County came to this city
with his wife in April 1875. aud taking lodg-
ings in the Irving House. enjoyed the sights.
MIR. Bowman had long been addicted 20 drink,
and. although only midde-agcd. was cnfecbicd
and required the constant care OF his wife. At
about 10 o'clock on the morning Of the oath of
April, Mr. and Mrs Bowman prepared to re-
turn to Cochccton and after the baggage had
been taken away in an express wagon. Mr.. Bow
man took a leather wallet from his inner vest
pocket and counted ont its contents before Mrs.
Bowman There was 5000 in ffty-dollar green
backs certificate emitting Mr. Bowman TO 1i2
shares OF tho stock OF the phWniX National
Bank. and n promissory note for 500. drawn
| to the order OF Mrs. Bowman 10y Samuel Every
| OF Cochecton. Mr.. Bowman then replaced tho
wallet in his pocket, and, telling Mrs. Bow
| man that he would meet her at tho en-
trance to Washington Market. went away
| Mrs. Bowman. after making n small pur-
chase in Broadway. met her husband in
| front Of Thorlcys flower stand ut 142 West
street. Mr.. Bowman was intoxicated and in
sisted upon buying some pottcd plants, and n
| young man who stood near the stand offered 10
| carry the plants TO- the Chambers street ferry
| As the party walked along West street Mrs.
| Bowman saw that her husband was growing
| weaker. She feared that she might not get
| him aboard She ierrybuat. but she supported
| him with all her strength. In the ferry house
| she stopped To pay the fare. and her husband
| walked on with tho young man carrying the
! plants. AZ she got her change she turned. md
| saw the young man steal her husbands wallet
just then there was a rush Of passen-
| pushed into scat. In her concern for him.
and her dread 81 making scene while he was
ht a nit lp n n
| the theft. She helped her hus band 90 the boat.
| md after putting the plants down IN the cabin
| the young man hurried away. Mrs. Bowmangot
| her husband into = compartment in palace
car with great difficulty aud he was carried
from the tnr TO his CARRIAGE IN Cochecton. As
soon MS SHE had settled her husband comfort
| ably IN his home. and summonci phy~ic!un,
| Mrs. Bowman telegrHphed TO Superintendent
| Malling. desert bling the young man who carried
| the plants. and asking for his arrest. A few
days later she was informed thni No Wns lockrd
pp IN tne Iity Prison. awaiting ldentln rali4n by
her. Mr. Bowman was very lll. but Mrs Bow
man came to Now York and identified the Young
man. She learned that hcwas William Green.
Three Fingered Jack"
Green was tried yesterday In the General
Sessions Mrs. Bowman testified that early
IA May. 1879. she received subudnas from the
Mr.. Bowman and herself to- appear before tho
Grand Jury aud testify AKA inst Green. Mr.. Bow
man was very ~. and she telcgraphed that
| neither Mr.. Bowman nor she could come. Sho
und Mr.. Bowman came 10 New York IN the fol-
lowing July. but MIR. Bowman WINS 50 feeble
whit disp sltion had been male OF Green. MIR.
Bowman died in January. 1876. In the fall OF
! 1876 she moved L. this city. and took apart
ncnis at Eighth avenue and Fify-second street
soon a!terward Green called upon her. lie
said that he WAS willing 10 make an affidavit
mat he had seen the promissory note that was
| IN MIR. BOWman's wallet when II was stolen
torn up. and thrown into CRATE fire, He would
not say who tore the note up, or where II was
done. lie proicssed as his sole motive in max
ing this revelation. a es5ire 70 have ner recover
the amount o! the note. lie offered his address On
0slip OF paper. saying that hr would like T. mayo
her send for him whenever she wanted th' am
daVit She took tho paper, but did not send for
Green. She moved in December last TO the
house at 500 Madison avenue. Within fort.
night after her removal. Green called again. and
renewed his Offer to make the affidavit. She
gave him no positive answer, hut instead laid
| her case before Assistant District Attorney Rus
sell, who had Green indicted for stealing her
Under ross-examination. Mrs Bowman tes-
titled that Detective Mcdonnell then Of the
Church street police. called upon her IN the
Cosmopolitan Hotel when she came 10 this city
10 Identity Green. after the arrest OF the latter.
aud gave her the certificate Tor the PhdniN M
tional Bank stock that was in ner husbaud's
did not tell her where he got the ccrticate.
Alter che returned TO her home Detective
with her husband He obtained several thou
sand dollars from her husband aud in the fol-
lowing December. through Il !, tier 10 her hus-
band she learned that he had resigned his
position on tho police force and was about 10
70 to san Francisco. He Is now she believes. "a
member Of tho police force oi Chicago.
Lawyer Mct LELAND. Green's senior lawyer. Ing
| MS opening Tor tho defence sad that no would
prove that Mrs. Bowman has admitted TO eN-
Common Councilman Andrew D. Purtell OF
| this city. that she does not believe that Green
stole her husbands wallet. She. the lawyer
aycrred instituted the prosecution against
! | Green only because he would not interest him
self in h.r behalf N suit that she has had
against Mr. purell for the recovery Of S3i sou
tuut she al eges Mr.. Purtcll obtained from her
while acting IN a hduclary capacity.
~ Green testified IN his own behalf that he did
| not steal Mr.. BDwmun's wallet; that Mr. Bow
man parted with him on the ferryboat in Il
| friendly way giving him atty cents for carry
| ng the plants. and shaking hands with him
| West street. and was there every day until h.
was arrested; that tho Grand Jury dismissed
[ | the complaint against him, and he was released
| that he heard no more OF the case until young
l | man living in the house al Eighth avenue uul
Fiity-socond street. in the fall Of 1876 told him
, | TINT Mrs. Bowman wished 10 see him there
that Mrs. Bowman told him that she did not be-
lieVe that he stole her husbands wallet that The
y | men that accused him. In her opinion. and uar
. ticularly Detective Donnru' yrrr worse tnei
z | added. had whecdled 10000 out OF her nus
band by promising to make him "A sergeant o
police, which It was then her husbands fancy
to DO.
n Under ss-examinaton by Mr.. Russell
| Green testified that he has been in TheOdur,
g Aliens employ for several years. and WAS th'
manager OF Aliens club room" At 6l5 Broal
o way. but never saw any gambling there III
Z | WIS not steerer' Tor the game there. He Ill,
got eqSrf s w sSP4a Nest stree, w ISYt t6
4 " pocketboOk dropping" game. He was a bar
q cooper in Theodore Aliens bnrroom il
/ Blocker street until about two months ago
- The Jury was in consultation for hardly hal
an hour They found Green guilty. Judg'
a may l., made into his past iiie before lo Il
q | sentenced.
SCHAEFER'S LONG JOURNEY.
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