New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-12

DOUBTFUL ABOUT EVENING PKRt9h 49, sfor-
Jerome Hopkins Yesterday appeared before may
OF Grace at the City Hall with ABOUT niS bn nnc
whose ages range from seven 10 fourteen years, ad
who are to constitute the chorus IN Mr.. nopS,hst
new comic opera. ''Taffyp which he purposes TO
produce about Christmas. Mr.. Hopkins SAID thft
he intended TO give both afternoon ana evening
The glrls appearing in the afternoon but wonld not
consent TO the evening performances until ne con- en-
ferred with Elbridge l. Gerry, OF the society ior
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
sTRAxGIING HERSELF WITH sATCHEL-sTRAP.
Ursula Binthaupt age thirty-two, a domestic IN
the family of Charles Borsch, at No. IA East
was found heng nI N cl3se 'b Ga
country only year. and in the employ of Mr..
Borsch four mouths. OF late she had been despond-
ent and t t14m b ne 6,39 OsdGbb WIH
strangled herself; She had taken satchel-,trap,
wound IT around her neck several times and then
attached il TO a hook on the wall. A sister OF tue
woman lives at Orange n. j.
PERJURY on ONE SIDE or TIE OTHER.
Melina Nette, ofNo. SOC East Fifty-nlnt hist, a
bright little girl, age eleven was compiainant IN
the YOrkvIlle Police Court yesterday against Henry
Klapner, of No. ,l39 Second-avc.. an emplloye OF
the Fifty-nnth Street Dispensary; The child stated
that on Saturday she called at the dispensary TO
have prescription filed and that klapDer made a
brutal assault upon her. Kappcr, who says that he
is thirteen years of said that he never saw the
girl. Physicians testified that 1t would be lmp0s-
sible for the assault to have been committed with
out their knowledge, and the complaint was dis
missed
ROBBING A STORAGE HOUSE on WARDS ISLAND.
Edward Good, OfNinety-sxth-st. and Second-aye,
was captured III q small boat at the loot OF East
Ninety-second-st. on Sunday afternoon. In the
boat were books and clothing stolen from q house
for storage on Wards Island; Thomas Callahan, a
former emplove on the island, and James Taylor,
both of Ninety-sxth-st and Scc0nd-aVe' SOLO some
of the proceeds Of the robbery to Daniel Bon,
ner and John ATfuIun, residents OF AYenue-A, ana
were also arrested. In the Harlem Police Court
yesterday Justice Otterbourg held the prisoners III
81 800 bail each for trial.
A SMALL BUSINESS AT THE REGISTERS OFFICE
There was little going on in the Registers oilics
yesterday there being only fOrty-six instruments
recorded IN the day. Among these were a mort
gage by which Messrs. Roster ~ Bal obtained a
loan of $10S75 on their new building At the south
west corner of Worth and Chatham-sts. from George
Ehret. the brewer. and n conveyance by Hamilton
A. Weed and wife of the property on the cast SIDE
of Seventh-ave extending from One-hundred- and
twentv-ilth-st TO One-hundred-and-twenty- b.
ST., with a depth of 80 fest, to James ID. Lynch
for $4,000 Mr. Weed purchased the property
on Saturday last from Leonard Scott for the same
amount.
A DANGEROUS MAN TO PURSUE
James Wade, age twenty OF No 800 Eleventh-ave.
committed III the Yor kvlle Ponce Court yester-
day without bail for trial on charge OF assauting
and rObblng John MahOn of his watch and VIZ IN
money about two months ago Mah9n is watch
man employed at the foot of West Forty sixth-st.
Officer Dalton, of the Twenty-secOnd Precinct, at
tempted to arrest Wade some two years ago for
similar offence Wade took refuge i'll a sewer, where
he was followed by Dalton. Shots were exchanged,
and after emptying his revolver, Dalton gave up
the pursuit. A few days later Officer Vallery, OF
the Tweny-second Precinct, met wade, and shots
were again exchanged. One took effect IN me lat
ters leg, and he was captured and committed to the
Penitentiary for one year. He has also spent two
years in the Trenton Prison.
BROOKLYN.
City Works Commissioner Ropes has ordered that
no one be allowed TO cut ice from the ponds IN
Queens County from which the city gets It's water
supply.
The village of East New-York has been without
street lights for nearly year, but on Saturday the
Town Board entered into a contract with the En-
pre- Gas Company for 524 lamps year. at $25
lamp. The contract Is for ten years.
The Dime Savings Bank has purchased the lot,
So by 100 feet, at the southwest corner of Court
and Remsen-sts., on which Bunuelrs Museum, for
merly The Court Square Theatre, now stands. for
$4,000 new building for banking purposes
and business Offices Will be erected.
JERSEY CITY.
William Wilson. colored burglar from Philadel
phia, broke into ex-Attorney General Robert Gil
christs house. at Mercer and Barrow SITS, at a late
hour OnSunday night. He was heard by Mr.. Gil
christs SON. Raymond, who, with the assistance of
Dominlck Wade, hired man, captured the burglar
as he was running through Banow-st Wilson had
goods worth about $40 tied up in table cloth
de was committed for trial
NEW-JERSEY.
PATERsON.-Ex-Senator Henry A. Williams as
counsel for ex-COngressman VOorhis, formerly of
Hackensack, recently applied to the Supreme Court
of New-Jersey, for foreign jury to try his client
him such as to preclude far trial. The par
ticular charge against YOOrhis is OF defrauding j.
quest and issued writ to the Sheriff of Passaic |
County, which was filed yesterday, directing that |
Jury from that county should be summoned TO try |
the eX-COngressman at HackenSack this winter |
NOoThis Is now resident of HObOken where Is |
law.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY.
RYE NECK-Slrs. Merritt made visit on Satur- |
day to Greenwich, locking her house and leaving |
III it her daughter, four wears old, and infant
SON. When darkness came on, the child removed a |
lid from the stove, and took piece of paper and
with It attempted to light lamp The flames |
burned her fingers and she threw the lighted paper
on the covering Of the infant in the cradle setting
II on fire. The child screamed and alarmed the |
neighbOrs, who broke into the room, but the infant
was badly burned that it died shortly aIerward
The jury ascertained that the mother was III tho |
habit of leaving her children locked up for hours
away from home all night. The Jury severely CEN
sured her and recommended that the authorities |
take her children from her and place them where |
they would receive proper care. |
LONG ISLAND.
HAMPSTEAD Coroner Denton will resume the |
inquest to-day in the case Of Henry BrIcht the |
laborer on the Barnum farm who was shot in a |
quarrel by Joseph Mas. New testimony goes TO
show that the shooting deliberate, and that |
the knife-cuts on Mas were sef-inhicted.
LONG ISLAND CITY.-John Miller. one of the men |
convicted at the Queens County Court of Sessions
last week of rObbiDg Il railroad car on the Long |
Island Railroad, at JsmaIca, was sentenced to |
three years N the state Prison yesterday by Judge
Armstrong. The Judge discharged every petit |
Juror in the court for the day owing the District
attorneys inability TO get the different cases ready
Tor trial. He threatened TO adjourn the court for |
he term if there business ready for his con-
,idcration to-day.
STATEN ISLAND.
NEW BRIGHTON +. Holt. the new Coroner, |
was arrested for dsorderly conduct and was ar |
aligned yesterday before Justice Seaton.
WEST PORT RICHMOSD.-W. K. Soutter has |
been elected president of the new railroad 10 run |
across the island from West Port Richmond to Sc. |
yuines Point, a distance of nine miles. Work on |
he road has been begun.
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