New-York tribune., 1882-02-22

| Commissioner Smith T.. Lane and Judge Drauy'
| DEATH or A SUCCESSFUL DETECTIVE.
| potrolman Lawrence ONeil, OF the DetecINe
Force died from inflammation of the bowels yesler
day at his home, No. 1866 Chrst0pher-st. re & wa &C
forty-one years old and he had been ,napector
Byrnes he made many important arrests AlilpHi PaIi
the prisoners whom he captured were uco.Su soaro.
| and Albert WILSON, the Baltimore panh III IassenI
| Charles Becker the forger Of Italian bonds joseph
" Milne the clerk VINO rmbezzled -, 600 from the
| Pocasset National Bank of Providence, H. L., am
William McDevitt and Richard bro"h' no''O
burglars.
RECEPTION TO THE BAR ASSOCIATION. 90
| Francis n Bangs the newly elected president Oh
the Bar Association gave reception 10 tHe a ,Ien
No. 95i NV West Fifty-iifthst. Among the persons
present were Presiding Justice Noah DAVIS Wlilam
| NJ. Evarts, ex-Secreary Bristow, ChaunCcV VI;
Depew, Justices Lawrence. Barrett, Brady ana
| DOnohuc of the Supreme Court, ChIei Judge oeug
wick and Judges Rus ell, Arnoux Freedman anu
Van Worst of the Superior Court Judges LarreIoIo'
| Van Worst J. +. DAILY and Van Brunt of the Coni-
mon Pleas, Chief Justice Shea of the Marine GouT1'
| John NJ. Whiting, Charles Tracy and Dwight H.
Olmstaad.
| COMPLAINTS FROM srEERAGE PASSENGERS.
Complaints were made to the Commissioners OF
| Emigration Yesterday by several steerage passen-
gers in relation to their treatment during the voy-
age Of the steamship Australia, from Hamburg,
consigned TO Seager Brothers She had 55l steerage
passengers and the complaints said. among 0ther
things that the manner of distributing ne l4ou as
disgusting in some cases 1T being carried ABOUT III
buckets used also 10 collect refuse IRON the rooms
| The principal complaint was by Rosala Gerlach
| who with her sister and child, is on her way 10
| Chicago She charged the purser with making IN;
decent proposals TO her. The COMMISSIONERS VIII
| recommend his dismissal
| PLUMBERS AND THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Several jOurneymcn plumbers appeared before the
Board f Health Yesterday to give their views reIa
| tive To the registration Of plumbers lhey askeu
the Board to provide for some system OF e~xaillna ~
tion i'm order TO prevent any ignorant or lmIract
cal plumbers from registering ana TO issue licenses
| TO those plumbers who we're allowed 10 register
and they wished information as TO the IL n-4e I,D VI
| iourneymen to employ apprentices undeI tne Ei".
President Chandler said the Board was considering
the question of examinations and that the question
of issuing certificates would come before the Board
at a future meeting. lie thought The Jourueyleh
would be allowed to employ apprentices
THREE CASES IN COURT IN one DAY
| Mrs. Bessie Darling, the actress, was deienHaht
in the Ninth District Civil Courtond c0mplanahI
in the Harlem Police Court yesterday In the Clyll
| Court before Justice McGOwan. she was sued by
two of her servants, Mary Carroll and Lucy WOOD
son. The former asserted that she owned a trunk,
| which Mrs Darling had retained, and the latter
sued for wages. Mary Carroll o6talned yerdlc!i
| but IuCv WoodsOn was nOnsuitcd. When the civil
suits had been decided Mrs Darling caused the ar
rest of the latter a charge of being concerneI IN
the robbery of her diamonds on January 4 Ms Mrs'
| drew the complaint. and the case was dismissed.
| TALKING TOO MUCH IN JAIL.
| George Doremus, alias Weller, and John Lamp,
were each held for trial ON Monday IN the IIartG,n n
Police Court, for stealisG an oyTrc9at from the
| house at No 423 East One hundrrd-and- twenty
fourth-st While in cell in the Harlem jan tney
were overheard talking about two women WIN WIN
whom thew lived at No. q Bleecker-st. Yesterday
morning Detectives Smith and Thompson went to
tine house and arrested Laura Richardson age nine
| teen and Layinia Cordrick, age eighteen;
| In the rooms the officers found several
paWn;iickets and 6ank-9oGk n DciSmglEs IfongTtE!
st. In the Harlem Police Court yesterday the BANK
book was identified 10y Mr. Best as part OF some
property that was stolen from his n use lev WGGhS
ago. Doremus and Lamb have also been ldehtlhed
as the persons who broke into Coolers real estate
Office on Friday night and stole 5000 Inc case VIII
come up for examination this morning.
BROOKLYN.
Ripley Ropes Commissioner of City Works: yes
terday discharged about twenty employees OF tho
Department.
A suit has been brought against the Manhattan
Beach Improvement Company by Lew +. Morton 10
recover 1000 for the occupation OF the eastern cnd
of Coney Island Point Breeze by the company, and
also to recover possession of the land.
DR.. L. J. TachmyDtis, who was arrested on Mon
day for sending threatening letters to Dr Dudley,
of the Long Island COLLEGE Hospital, was arralgned
before Justice Walsh yesterday. lie asserted that
he prosecuted, and wanted to procure ms a.
treatment and said he had been given nothing to
eat since his arrest eighteen twenty hours before
lie finally entered plea OF gmlty to the charge
made against him. and sent TO jail until Thurs
day 10 await examination.
The "Anti-Bobtal Car Association met at
Schiudler's Hail. in the Eastern District. last night
Severl reports were read, and the meeting was
a iournCd until Tuesday next. TO await the acton
of the special commit iec o. the Common S0uncll'
before which the "bobtail" question will be ar
gued on Friday The association considers that IT
has won a victory, large ears are being used on
different lines as fast as possible it meets now as
an "army of observation" 20 see that the car COM
pany does not recede from its promises.
JERSEY CITY.
Matthew Campbell. who tried for the murder
of his wife, convicted of mansaughter and SEN
fenced to State Prison for eight years, was removed
to Trenton yesterday.
Charles Ianr1om was arraigned before Judge
Stilsing yesterday morning on charge OF stealing
$40 from his father, who lives at No. Is Ferris-st
i'm October last the young man stole gold watch
AMI chain from his father. but the latter did not
prosecute him. because the boy nearly died from the
effects of the debauch in which he INDUCED with
the money he raised. The boy was arrested the sec
ond time in "Owncy' Geoghegan's place IN New
York. He committed for trial.
Mrs. Alice Keller, of jersey City, member of
the Emma Abbott opera troupe, granted . de-
cree of divorce on Monday fiOm her husband, David
r. Keller by icc-Chancelor Dodd, on the ground
of descrion and adultery. Keller was well
known in Jersey City, having been prominent
member and at one time al Oticer OF the hudson
County Caledonian Club. lie was W employed IN me
man under General Mcclellan. About three or four
years ago he began to lead a double life, spending
half his time with Mrs. Hattie Hewitt IN New
York and the other half with his wife in jersey
CITY eXcusing his frequent absence from home on
the plea OF urgent business. About year ago he
route of a new railroad in Ohio, and he took his
mistress there with hIm, deserng his wife entirely.
MIS-. Keller secured an engagement WIN the ,AD-
bott troupe and then applied for the divorce which
she has just obtained.
NEWARK.
A charity ball held last week in aid of the Fire
mems Widows and Orphans fund netted the sum OF
$l.376 o.
Joseph Fohncr was arrested yesterday on Capias
issued by supreme Court Commissioner +. w.
Stevens on complaint OF Emma Barti, for breach
of promise of marriage. He had been arrested pre-
yiously in another civil SUIT on caplas issued by
Judge McCarter on complaint of the girls father.
for betrayal
Gustav Oertel, a restaurant keeper ut No. 422
Broad-st employed Franz Wiener waiter a
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