The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-26
CHRISTMAS CHASE.
New York Young Lady Bravely Pursues
Thief

New York Young Lady BraveIy Pursues
Thief
Latest Phase of the Livingstone Breach of
Promise Case.
Special Correspondence of the Evening Light.
NEW YORK, January I6.-Miss Christina
sherwood, daughter of Chief Engineer B.
sherwood, United States navy, left her home
at III East Thirty-sixth street, about noon one
day last week, accompanied by her cousin.
Miss Carpenter, of Auburn, TO 90 to lunch
con party at the house of friend in Fifty
seventh street. The two young ladies began
to descend the winding stairs leading into the
Park avenue tunnel at Thiry-eighth street.
Miss Carpenter, thinking that she heard the
bells OF coming car, ran ahead to signal the
driver to stop. She passed tall man with
sandy whiskers on the stair, and a moment
later heard Miss sherwood cry out. Miss
Carpenter ran back. The tall man had
snatched at Miss Isherwood's purse which she
carried in her hand.
Miss sherwood, who is small but cour-
ageous, resisted his attack, and he flung her
upon the stone landing which ntercepts the
winding way. He wrenched the purse from
her hand and ran up into the street, and.
although bruised and out of breath, Miss
sherwood scrambled to her feet and ran after
the highwayman, followed by her cousin.
When they reached the head of the stairs.
they saw the man running down Thirty-eiphth
street, toward Lexington avenue. They BEGAN
to run after him
CRYING, "SToP THIEF %
A passer-by joined in the pursuit, and man
just ahead of the fleeing highwayman, who
was sweeping the sidewalk, tried vainly to
TRIP nm up with the broom The thief ran
down Lexington avenue to Thirty-sixth street,
and Third avenue, where the pursuers lost
sight of him.
Miss sherwood and Miss Carpenter went
to the 1hirty-ffth street police station and
called upon Captain Ryan to assist them in
capturing the thief. Captain Ryan, however,
although aided by some of Inspector Byrnes'
detectives, has thus far failed to find him.
but description of the thief has been recog-
nized as that of a man who has for some
weeks past been lettering around the tunnel
and the houses in the neighborhood. Miss
sherwood is confident that she would recoq-
nlze him should she ever see him again.
Murray Hill is excited over the rather poor
prospects OF his capture, for the winding tun-
mel stair is about as lonely place at midday
as II is at midnight. Miss Isherwood's purse
cost SI7. 1t contained twenty-dollar gold
coin, five or six dollars in other money, and
two earrings of opals and diamonds. Her
velvet gown was ruined by her struggles with
the highwayman and her fall.
THE FLEMING CASE.
Miss Livingstone's counsel, Mr.. New
combe, in the famous breach of promise suit
against Henry Fleming, has been served with
the order granting an application for a new
trial in the case on the ground of newly-dis-
covered evidence. Mr.. Newcombe said that,
beyond admitting the service of papers and
that Miss Livingstone would be on hand next
Monday to make her return to the affidayits of
her mothers late coachman, Archie Cor
nelius, he would say nothing He said he
wanted to try his case in the courts, and not
in the papers, as the other side had done. to
create sympathy. When asked what his own
opinion was concerning the letters alleged to
have been written by the young lady, he
smiled and said: ''All proceedings after a
verdict has been obtained are looked upon
with more or less suspicion, more especially
when the witnesses and evidence might have
been produced on the trial. Nothing was
said about Fleming not being able to discover
the whereabouts of this important witness or
the letters in his possession. The court might
have taken this into consideration if it had
not done so. 1t will not be hard matter to
tell whether the letters are genuine or not.
have Miss Livingstone's word that she has
not spoken to or seen the coachman for 4
very long time, and at no time spoke about
the trial just ended, as alleged"
Mr.. Howe, Fleming's counsel, is confident
the verdict will be set aside on new trial,
and in favor of Fleming, but he refuses to say
what other new evidence he has in his pos
session.