New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-30
mended that a law be passed requiring all drug,
gists to keep poisonous medicines under iocA "nu
kew Scherbch was arrested.

mended that law be passed requiring all drug,
rists TO keep poisonous medicines under lock and
| key. Scherbich was arrested.
SHE ONLY WORE TROUSERS FOR FUN.
SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF GIRL PnIsoNER-hEh
| TRAVELS.
Esther Mabel Lewis. the young girl VINO was
| arrested in Newark on Thursday night while wear
| ing male attire. on charge OF larceny, was ar
ra'gned in the police court i'll that city yesterday
She had dofed her gray business suit and appeared
| dressed IN a dark brown SKIRT and close, htIIhg
| cloak and cap. In the morning Henry Booth, VINO
| sand that he lived in this city. appeared at the
| Newark Poice Headquarters and asked to see the
girl, stating that she was his half-sister he was
and said to hef DO you know me Ettap' :,
kn a%s y sln fo the Chief Of Police tss
| Army Eve years, and he last saw his sister at his
grandmother's house at Bridgeport. Soon after
ward she went away, and although the family
had tired to trace her they could get no crew 10 cr
He had seen the IN d ine in S and
since then she had been cared Tor ana cducateu NY
| the grandmother -, - us,,,oo
In the police court j. w. Barnes VINO $. liss.ype
writers in Newark, appeared as the complainant
Justice Roder questioned the prisoner, and she re-
sponded readily and without embarass nent: Sae
| acknowledged that she had hired the Typewriter
| and had pawned it for $50 at No. 90 Bowery, Dut
it was not her purpose to swndle she had assn, o
male attire she said; ior or dau detaiIed account
] of her wanderings during Two years. pOh leaY-
| ing her home III bridgeport in May, lSS1 she re-
NAMED for some time IN SOuthsoId aud then went
| TO Portchester n. Y, where she worked III corset
factories until October She then came TO TINS cry
| and stayed fer a month and then returned 10
| Bridgeport and worked at corset making. lhJuhe,
1888 she cane to this city, and afler Drlei stay
| went to South Norwalk, Conn, ana maze tour VI
the State, bringing up ID Worcester, Mass, wheIc
| she worked two months in a corset factory. IN
July she went to Boston and THENCE to providence
J New-H Haven Philadelphia and WashinstW1n, oGea-
sonally working in corset factories IN Traaa,Ty
Department but left the city. before she re-
ceived noticed to appear Tor examination
| She next appeared in Hartford and then vlsiied
| New-Britain Bristol, Waterbury, Albany, Syra,
cuse aud Buffalo In the latter city she attended
| for four weeks Slocum's School of Pbrenoogy.
She then went to Rochester and Auburn, and com
ing back to this city she went to Newark and got
work in Barlow's corset factory, where she worked
| up 10 last Saturday night. ,
q How did you mlanage to pay the, expense OF
| travel and maintenance 7" asked the Justice.
| "When worked saved my money"
| In her possession when she was arrested was
certificate purporting that she was authorized oy
| New-York detective agency to act nc deputy ne
tective, with full power to arrest, obtain money,
dress in male or female attire, ETC. The SIGNATURE
| to the certificate was forged by the girl, who said
that she had printed It on the type writer and VIII
| one female friend. She made the voluntary ac-
Acknowledgement that she had been arrested in
vassing for a book and she forged an order 10 get
| the commission. For this offence she served a
term of sixty days in the Fairfield County Jal, she
| was committed yesterday IN default oil Dan ior
| tI1al in the Special Sessions Court.
| AN ANCIENT LAND MARK IN DANGER.
| DIGGING UNDER THE REAR or THE JoHN-sT
CHURCH-EFFoRTs TO PREVENT CRASH.
Behind the old Methodist Church ia John st, the
most ancient III New-lOrk. q hrm OF Dullulhg
| contractors began some time ago TO make excaya-
tons for the extension and partial reconstruction
OF n building which fronts III Maiden lane. The
lott hen IL
from the street level and eighty feet from the bot
tom of the foundations The owner is Charles
knapp. The contractors are John ). Blrdsall ana
Frank +. Smith. On comparing the plans OF the
architect with the actual dimensions OF the lot OF
ground. it was found that the Ola John street
territory. The architects plans were accordingly
altered. as the owner insisted on covering with his
foundations all OF the ground THAT belonged 10 nun
10 do this it was necessary to dig under tho walls
OF the church The foundations OF the Maden-iane
building are six feet deeper than those OF the
church, and hence even If no undermining had been
done there the necessity OF providing against
possible danger This as the inspector detailed to
examine the wall by the Department OF Buildings
Jacob Kenny, declares had been only impericctiX
done when he first visited the premises. The wall
OF the chancel at the rear end OF the church WHICH
projects upon the adjoining lot IL IN the form OF
half cylinder Three "spur battrcsses" were
placed against this on last saturday bnt not
particle of snoring Lad been done about the Dase oil
the wall where the excavation extended six feet
below it, On Monday two other Hspur buttresses
were wedged under the lintels OF the windows IN
the dat portions of the wall on each side of the
chance. Only day before yesterday was any shor-
ing-up done.
that they must protect their property. lie sad 10
TRIBUNE reporter that h. anxious about the
dan ger to the old land mark. which he regarded as
extremely great, that he hardly slept at all on the
succeeding night. Yesterday John Bentley, OF No.
% Beekmanst. one OF the trustees OF the chlilch.
signed contract with AlesSrs. Blrdsall " Snlt ny
which the latter are TO brace up the rear wall and
build two foot foundation under II, extending
down deep as the foundation OF the building
Ill, ,Io finn NJ will no
of work, and will make necessary the most careful
precautions The contractors had already placed
granite pillar under the most exposed portion Oh the
masonry.s But iuIther along to the east there is
nothing but thin Snoring OF planks to prevent the
great weight from crushing out the loo ana sandy
| soil and crashing down on top OF 1t. mere dusty
| ruin Inspector Kenny said yesterday that heavy
rain might have at once a disastrous enect. III
| might wash away the bank of sand held up by the
| snoring and let the wall down. 1t is hoped, how
ever, by rapid work 10 obvlate every danger.
CHASING AN ALLEGED HORSE THIEF.
| Cortlandt0wn, Westchester County, is poor
place for man TO steal horse in ort0 take a stolen
| horse for there exists the GERMANTOWN stock
Protective Association ana there lives the energetic
| president. Sheriff Stephen ID. Horton. On Satnr-
! day Henry NJ. Hull, OF bridgeport. drove "a gray
| horse to Peeksk ! hItche1 to fine buggy with
red undergear He offered the rig for sale 80 cheap
ly that Sheriff Horton teleerapheG 10 YarOns places
| TO discover owner. Hull last week stole bay
| mare and the rel-wheeled wagon at Bridgeport.
| At Georgetown, Conn, lie traded the mare Tor
gray borse and so with NJ. CUnery, and then drove
to Ieekskll where he traded the buggy for another
| and $40, and went with the new outfit to New
burg BACK Of this place he sold the gray horse for
| $3.50. and left the buggy ard harness at Woods
sale stables TO be disposed Of icre, through dc,
scripton received from Connecticut, nc was traced
| by Depnty-Shenff James Mabie When Mabie
| arrived in Newburg he had gone 10 Poughkeepsie
Mabie went there, but was Cgnizcd by The thief
az no entered the hotel and the latter once start
ed for Highlands. across the where he arrived
| yesterday. Sheriff Horton made q complaint
against Him for bringing stolen goods into the State
| intending to hold him until the Connecticut au-