Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-26
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, May p, 1886

NEW lptsh. -hth - 1901
To the Editor OF the Daily Eagle.
Harvey NJ MunseIl, juror in the
Short case. who visited RD,sa's office
during the tr' al, was arrested by the
order Of Judge Van Brunt Tor con
tenIpt Of coar; and was sentenced To
thirty DAYS imprisonment in the
county Jail aud Zine Of $3.50 Nun
sells LAWYERS have issued Il writ of
habeq~ corpus aud taken him before
the general term Of the supreme court
with view of having the sentence
set one side. The case is now before
Justices Bradley, Daniels and Davis,
AMI their decision viii probably be
given in day or two. Col. Wood,
another Juror. who has been denounced
by Judge Van Brunt for cowardice,
has come out with u column article in
the daily papers dcnouncing the Judge
severely for being negligent of his
his duty and acting rowardly in his
charge TO the jury. He said if the
Judge had stated TO the jury what he
did in letter TO the Times un-
doubleday Short would have been
convicted.
Police Sergeant Crowley, recently
ARRESTED and convicted of assault
upon Mis- Maggie Morris, was SEN
fenced TO seventeen wears and six
months hard labor in Sing Sing pris-
on. Crowley has been on the police
force for MANY wears, and on the
night of the assault he got drank.
wen; TO dancing hall, was introduced
Ia Maggie Morris and invited her To
dance with him, bu, before doing so,
hr urged her to 90 down ID the saloon
and get refreshments. They went
down into the bar-room. the bar
keeper went out aud locked the door,
when Crowley committed the assault
The girl went 10 the police station,
sworc out Il warrant against Crowley
who was arrested and convicted 10y
jury. This was all done in ten days
time. Public Indignation runs high
against Crowley. He has been bad
police officer for many years. Charges
have frequently been made against
him, bu: through police influence he
had escaued punishment heretofore
Thomas Dreamer. editor Of the
Citizen" has recently made a state
ment through the columns Of his paper
that the excise board of this city is
composed of Il set OF black-mailcrs.
He asserts that they get from $500 to
81 900 out of the most of the men TO
whom they grant license To sell
liquor. If this is true, it will un-
doubleday lead 10 the arrest aud con
viction of the entire board for bride
~. If the charge is not true. Crea-
mer will probably he arrested tor
libel.
The roller skating match which took
place in Madison Square garden last
week. closed at 10 O'Clock on Saturday
night last Snowdon of Boston.
made the wonderful record of l,ll6
miles in six DAYS. Boyst. of Port jar
Wis. went lis. Four of the contest
ants made over ,00o miles each. The
managers OF the race came ont about
81 900 in debt. The attendance was
not very large. On Saturday evening
lust before the close of the race. at
the time when Snowdon received his
belt, lac went round the track a few
times at rate of speed that euabled
him TO keep pace with the contestants
in a twenty-five mile race tor the
championship ana $500.
Robert l. Odlun. of Washington.
made the attempt TO jump from the
Brooklyn bridge on Wednesday of
this week. The leap was a fatal one,
Tor he struck upon his side and die Il
within an hour after he was taken
from the water. \ post-mortem ex-
animation showed that the liver. heart
and stomach were rupturcd and three |
ribs were broken.
The New York legislature. lust be- |
fore the close of its recent session.
passed a resolution appointing a COM
miitee of five TO investigate New |
York city affairs during the coming |
summer This committee will come |
To New York and proposes 10 investi- |
gate every department of the city gov
eminent The people are looking for
some startling developments from this
An eX-mayor OF New
York recently told me that if the AZ
fairs of the city were honestly man /
aged. the tax PAYERS would be saved |
over Sl0,o00.OO0 wear In other
words, through the corruption of po-
itical parties, the lax payer, paw near
" $4,000, 600 more annually for car
rying on the city government than
they should pay. The legislature of
1854. passed a bin prohibiting cities of /