New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-15

road was opened yesterday.
TIE EVIDENCE AGAINST BUCKLEY.
INSUFFICIENT TO HOLD HIM FOR THE MURDER OF
THE MARINE.
No new developments revealed yesterday in
the case of Charles Reed Hubbell, the marine who
was found dead on Sunday morning IN the cellar OF
the new building III Third-ave., near Seventy
Seyenth-st Dr. Jenkins, Coroner Martins assist
ant found lacerated wOund on the back of the
head a confusion over the right eve and one on the
right check also that the right thigh was broken:
In the stomach were quantities OF beer baked
beans and bologna sausage; death, he saws, was
been removed to the Navy Yard and Will
be buried to-day. Hub6ells record since
R is been Exemplary. Ills duties We're such tat
he could have pass TO leave the Navy Yard ON al
most any night but he seldom avaed himself OF
the privilege When he left the yard on Saturday
night he had only So or $ia He lad just been pad
SIS but had returned 81 % borrowed from COM
radc. Prior to his enlistment in the service he had
been employed by Barnum's circus.
The police do not know whether the man dled
accidentally was murdered. Captain
M least robbery committed. The body
when found was evidently not III the part of tho
cellar where it had fallen or been thrown for there
was blood on rock and also the imprint OF man 5
form twelve tect to the north If IT, and also evl-
dences of Its having been drawn to the pace where
il was found. pOcket-bOok, which has been lden-
tilted as being liubbells, found i'll the cellar,
forty feet from the hole. 1t had nothing III H. In
the dead mans pockets were eighteen cents ,ua
Eugene f. Buckley, the Waterman of the build
inrs who discovered the body, was arrested on SuS-
piclon Of having murdered the man. Although he
is only twenty-eght years old he has stabbed a
pohcenan. served a tenn in prison for burglary aud
Ia, summer was arrested Oh suspicion of having
been one of a number OF young men VINO ASSAULTED
a Young girl III Central Park He was arralgned
Yesterday in the loTkvllle Police Court, but was
discharged owing to lack OF evidence against bum
He has been the Waterman of the premises only
three weeks having succeeded his father. Young
Buckley has not lived at home SINCE his employ
ment saving that the noise of the sewing machines
4, Gisfp ms
A. Wilbur, who keeps the news stand at Seventy
seventh St and ThiTd-aye., and to whoGe shantN
buckley had n key, saws that when his nephew
reached the stand on Sunday at $50 a. M he
found Buckley asleep W @ W S aPg Tyrd there few
minutes later and had been there onlN snort tllhe
when Buckley returned aud SAID that soldier was
in the cellar dead at that time. The newsletter
said that il was impossible TO distinguish even the
form of man III the cellar from the walk aud that
even to see the spot where the body was found III
the daylight it was necessary TO 90 inside the tenn
N porary railing of barrels and boards.
THE COMMITTEES DEADLOCK UNBROKEN.
The deadlock in the Senate Committee continued
unbroken Yesterday. With the exception OF
Senator COmstock, who is at his home IN Lansing
burg all the members on hand at the meeting
room in the Morton House a few minutes before the
time appointed for opening the session. Never be-
fore mad the committee exhibited such exemplary
promputude But it awaited nothing, No work
was done. Lawyer Miller was still Sulky and did
not appear. Lawyer SIahan came in for few
Minutes. but merely 10 give some ulleCIlOnS 10
the stenOGrapher about getting out the testimony.
Without lawyers the committee felt themselves as
helpless as ship at sea Without IndneIi An
ton. Senators Mccarthy and Plunkltt want to
stop and Senators Gibbs aud DAILY say they want
to go on and get a shot AT the Broadway RalIrOad
franchise. 1t was agreed that MeSSrs Gibbs and
DAILY should be allowed another day 10 hunt up
fresh counsel. Then an open session vas held,
only to adOan until o'clock to-day. Mr.. Gibbs
said that he was trying to get Ellbu Root to act
as counsel for the committee IN overhaullng
the Broadway Railroad franchise, but he feared
that Mr.: Root had too many other engagements; ii
he could not get Mr.. Root lie would try 10 hire
some other lawy er experienced IN tracking doodle"
The Commissioner of Public sWorks Rolln NJ
Squire was on hand to submit to an examination,
but as the Committee had no lawyer TO question him
he was told that he would be excused from an cX-
animation if he would put in writing any suggest
ions he had to make as TO Improvement in his De
partment. lie gratefully accepted the offer. Scna-
tors Punktt and Mccarthy view the mess into
which the committee have got with undisguised
satisfaction, but Messrs. Gibbs and DAILY look blue
over it,
SEEKING REST on AN ELEVATED PILLAR
Spaniard. about seventeen years of age, un-
dressed himself IN Chatham ST., near Chatham;
carefully LAID his garments on the sidewalk. The
storm had kept most persons away from the street,
but when the youth proceeded 10 climb a column OF
the elevated railroad, as If in search of convenient
resting place, I'D soon appeared. In the minds
of some wasthe thought that the youth would get
In the way of City Hall tram and he cut 10 pieces
Their shouts attracted the attention OF Policeman
McManus of the Sixth Precinct, ana Wncn ne NJ ~
caught sight OF the white figure, cllngihg 70 th(
iron structure he was inclined 10 think that ne nae
10 deal with ghost HIS alarm rap called iODcc
man OBrien aud the sturdy guardians Of the peace
proceeded to investigate. Their command TO 9" gl
down out OF that seemed 10 have no cncct on tnt
Spaniard, ana they had to gct&elp from the crowd
before the lunatic could be secured His teeth were
chattering from the cold when they got HIM to the
Elizabeth Street Station.
There no papers in his pockets to establish
his identity, and the sergeant on duty could not
make much Roadway with the crazy youths at
tennis make himself understood Spanish
The name "Warkee Tarano" was written on the
bloter TO represent the prisoner but 1t was thought
later that Joaquin IaUanO nearer the mark
An ambulance carried the youth and his clothing
10 Bellevue Hospital that the physicians III Cbarg
of the pavilion for the insane might try 10 find GU
what kind of mania the Spaniard suffered from.
GYMNASIUM FOR COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
The last graduating class of Columbia CGlleg
started "a custom of leaving memorial with tn
college to perpotuae its relation TO It, Its memoir a
a stained glass window. The present seuIO
class desires to follow the custom, and is endeavor
ing TO do so IN q somewhat pfetcntlOus way. i
proposes TO put upon a solid footing q scheme 10
building well-equipped gymnasium. This ste
has been undertaken after long inquiry into tn
cost of site and OF plan. The buildings 20 be place.
upon lot near the college, and Is to cost when fin
ished 800, coo. 1t is to be two stories high, o
pressed brick, 75 by 100 feet IN dimensions. Th
lower floor will contain bath rooms, rowing room
and dressng-roOms. The second floor will contain
the gymnasium proper, with gallery fixed up TO
q running track: This idea comes from the New
York Athletic Club architecture. The genera
STYLES which prevail i'll the Athletic Club
building will also be adopted.
A committee of the class of 1886 has been ap
pointed to. raise sss large part OF the requires
complete its work, and it will claim credit onl,
for having started the enterprise. The Commute
is composed or William Manlce, w. A: Meikeham
Lincoln Cromwell Edward DE Witt, Joseph Law
and