Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-10-12

mors were rife on the streets to the effect that
Mayor P. V. Carey had granted saoret immuni-
ty to the keeper of q house of ill-fame for 3
money consideration of $50; that during the
absence of the mayor from the city the police
pulled the establishment, arrested the parties
and they were fined to the aggregate of $11O.
To-day one of the parties concerned, johnson
by name, made an affidavit which is published
IN an evening paper, declaring that the charge
Is true. johnson affirms among other things
the following:
When talked with the mayor he agreed with me
that if would pay him $50 that he would guaran-
tee that We should not be molested for two months,
and understood that the $50 was
to be applied by him in paying our monthly fires
for two months After receiving the proposition
from the mayor, and believing he had the legal
power and right to make such an arrangement. but
without taking any legal advice upon it, talked the
matter over with my wife. She objected at first to
doing anything of the kind, but finally we went to-
gether and saw the mayor, and all agreed to the
proposition. had certificate of deposit: on the
Iowa National bank for $50, which 1 then took out
and indorsed aud handed it to my wife, and she
then in my presence handed il to the mayor, and it
was afterward paid
The certificate of deposit has been discov-
cred, and shows that it was issued payable to
Johnson, was indorsed by him, and in the
course of business transactions was turned
over to s. A. Robertson, member Of the
council The mayor's explanation of the af-
fair is that when Johnson was arrested he ap-
the hut setting it atire and burning it to the
ground with all the poor old woman's earthly
property. Last night Stinson was arrested
and to-day was bound over for trial Nov. 10.
Running AmucK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1O.-An extraordinary oc-
currence took place to-day on Fourteenth
or nf off 1vb ba
street is most crowded with shoppers, de-
mented Frenchman ran amuck through the
crowded thoroughfare, and with pair of
sharp pointed carpenters compasses stabbed
right and left his victims all being women.
The wife of the policeman who patroled the
block was one of the victims, and when her
husband arrested the lunatic he did not know
know the eompasses were dripping with his
wife's blood The lunatic was Ernest Du-
bourgne, half idiotic painter, whose crazy
antics have for years made him IL conspicuous
character. His victims were more or less
severely injured Their names are: Mrs.
Stobenberg, 422 East Ninth street; Miss
LouIse Checker, age twenty-l TWO, of 400 West
Fffty-first street: Miss M. L. King, 429
East Fifty-seventh street. severely hurt; Mrs.
Pauline Fielder of $50 West Sixteenth street
| and Mrs. Thomas Worth, 666 Lexington ave-
nue., dangerously injured; Mrs. Mary Hanley,
policeman's wife, 10 Greenwich avenue, two
stab wounds in left breast, perhaps fatally in
jured. Mrs Hanley was taken to the New York
hospital and the others assisted home. The lu-
natic was arrested by Officer Hanley. His cloth
ing was spattered with blood He said
he felt dizzy and admitted he had been drink
! ing. He wore two hats He said he stabbed
| the women because some man had threatened
his life. The prisoner, with his father, wan
dered for years through the city bearing
painted signs demanding justice from the Cali
fornia authorities for some wrong. They ac-
eepted charity, but only enough to feed and
lodge them. The father died in February last
The son kept up his pigrimaS Se