The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-02-02
DONALDSON LILLE LOUISIANA SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 1884

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der, but on the occasion of It'd annual re-
ception, Mrs. D. g. Croly, the president,
took occasion to speak a kind word for the
dead restaurateur, who, she said, had
adopted them when friends were few. On
the day Of the funeral the whole of the Dell
monico establishments were closed for six
hours, while the last male of his race and
name was being borne to his tomb at st.
Patrick's Cathedral. Then the great hui
man tide rolled on as before andeven while
! he lay for the last time i'll the magnificent
apartments which in other days had been
| the scene of luxurious reyelry, the gilded
youth in the royal apartments below
quafed their champagne and ate their pat
ties, gave toasts, and were merry as a mar
| riage bell.
| It is only week or two ago since gang
of young thieves was broken up, the eldest
of whom was only 16 years ofage; but this
week boy was captured by the police who
| is an accomplished burglar.at the age of IL.
1t is Q terrible tale, but this boy, the son of
| respectable parents, has been known to the
police as a thief for the past three years.
| He has been several times in the clutches
of the law, but on account of his extreme
youth and the responsibility of his parents,
| he has been allowed to escape the penalty
of his crimes. Last week, while the family
were at dinner below, he broke into house,
packed up all the things he could lay his
hands on and was just about departing
when he was captured by one of the female
servants after a desperate struggle. He
will now probably be taken care of till he is
. of age, as it is evident that his parents can
do nothing with him.
Almost interesting suit took place here
this week which awakened a story of long
forgotten crime. A few years ago there
was man well known in New York and
Brooklyn by the name of Grady, He was
an Irishman, about 80 years of age, and
was known to the police MS receiver of
stolen goods. Though constantly associ-
ated with thieves of the worst character, it
was no uncommon thing for him to have
about his person $40, ,000 or $4,000 worth
of diamonds, all of which had been pur-
chased from thieves and were the result of
successful robberies. Grady never at
tempted to sell diamond iowelry in their
original settings, TAs diamonds were
take. out, reset and then sold at con-
siderable discount for cash to parties who
were not particular in their inquiries as to
where they came from. He always looked
shabby and dirty, and person meeting
him in the street wonld have taken him for
an unfortunate tramp, never suspecting
that the dirty little old leather case which
he carried under his arm contained a
princes ransom. One morning, about six
years ago, Brooklyn was startled by the re-
port that a robbery had been committed
the night before, and in one of the largest
jewelry stores on the most public thorough
fare i'll the city, The whole front was of
plate glass, the store was brilliantly lighted,
hundreds of people were passing all through
the night, a special watchman was on guard
OH the block in addition to the regular po-
lice, who had special instruction to keep an
eye on Mr.. Wise's store; but, notwithstand-
ing all this, the store was cleaned out of
everything valuable and the thieves got off
with the booty. Mr.. Wise offered re-
ward of 5000, but the thieves wanted $1O,-
600. Negotiations wers pending for some
told detective that he could turn the
things up for $40, ,GO0 This was the turn
ing point in Grady life. Shortly after he
was robbed of $40, GEO worth of diamonds
Then he lost about 5000 more by Mrs.
Peck, the woman who sWindled Babbitt,
the soaplnaker. She persuaded Grady to
let her have a set of diamonds to show
rich friend of hers who wished to purchase,
and that Eas the last old Grady ever saw of
found dead in his room. In scene of
squalid misery, the owner of a fortune in
diamonds and gold had passed away with
out living soul near him to speak one
kindly word. The public administrator
took possession Of his property, and among
it were found severed articles that had been
stolen from Mr.. Wise's jewslry store. Mr..
Wise instituted suit against the public
administrator to recover his property which
was believed to be among Grady's effects
The question rose what became of all the
watches, rings and chains that were part of
the plumber, aud this question was settled
by Mrs. Howard, the wife of Charles How
ard, the bank burglar, who WIS murdered |
at Hobokep by his pals to keep him from
disclosing to the police the facts of a big
bank burglary in Massachusetts. Mrs
Howard saw her husband melt down the |
watch cases, rings aud chains, and went /
with him to New York when he sold the
golden ingot. The jury was convinced that
this was part of Wise's property, and, taken
in connection with some other goods. re-
turned verdict for Mr.. Wise for S1s,000.
Most of the principals in the robbery are |
dead-one was murdered, one was found |
dead in his room. another was hung, and /
the fourth was killed III a row at Shang |
Draper's saloon few weeks ago, but after
all these years Mr.. Wise gets the value of
his property back, though the men who
stole it are on the other side of Jordan.
The beauty of Christian harmony Is ad-
mirably illustrated by DR.. Newman and one |
Of the most influential members Of his con-
gregation. The church was formerly Mr. /
Hepworth's, and was orthodox Congrega-
tional, but when Gen. Grant settled in New
York, desiring to have everything frst-class
as he had been used to, he imported his old
minister from Washington, and the next
thing was to get him church. The General |
had put the Rev. Doctor in for a number
of good things. just before the expiration
of his second term he had sent him to in
spect the American Consulates throughout
the world, during which time the reverend
gentleman was fortunate to locate the Gar
den of Eden, bringing away i'll his grip
sack all that remained of the gates of Para
disc, and small piece of the Identical club
with which Cain slew his brother Abel. DR..
Hepworth's S church was without pastor,
and a shade or two of evangelical differ
ence was not going to stand between DR..
Newman and $10,0 600 a year. So he gave
the committee to understand that John
Wesley had no particular mortgage on him,
and that for 200 per annum he could be
as orthodox as john Calvin himself But
one of his deacons declared that while he
took Congregational money. he reported
monthly to the Methodist conference.
Some of the congregation thought that
there was a project on foot to steal the
church and devote the proceeds to settling
DR.. Newman in soft billet for life. The
doctor is fighter from the word go, and
he made it lively for that deacon fora little
while.
Atlast they asked DR., Newman t resign.
and for time it looked rs if they you'd
have to call in the police. However, better
counsels prevailed and the congregation
reached home without any broken heads.
DR.. Newman has not yet resigned, nor is it
likely he will as long as there is dollar in
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