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x1Ep7oMAN1Ac OR PLAIN THIEF,
A GoOd.lOoklng. Elderly Musician Carries
OF n Valuable Violin.

A GOOd.lOokIng. Elderly Musician Carries
OF N Valuable Violin.
E. Tubbs. violin manufacturer. OF 374
Bowery wants to get back violin which was
stolen from his shop on Saturday. 1t is u
Mazzini instrument and as it was not his own.
but was left with him to be repaired Mr..
Tubbs is willing to give 5000 for its return.
Early on Saturday afternoon. while Mr..
Tubbss wife was In charge OF the shop in her
husbands absence a we'll dressed STRANGER.
apparently German. came In to purchase
some strings. He also looked at violins. say
ing he was going to purchase one for a pupil Of
his who was willing to pay IS much as 5000.
lie seemed especially Interested In the Maz-
zini instrument. and wanted to know II it was
q genuine Mazzin! or only COPY AS he was
looking at the victims tenant OF the building
came In to. pay his rent, and while Mrs, Tubbs
was occupied with him tho stranger slipped the
Mazzini from the glass case In which 1t rested
with six other instruments and made of
with II.
The thief is described as a stoutly built man
Of about 80 years, with gray hair. black eyes.
and forid complexion. He was OF gentle
manly appearance. and evidently was must
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sHEPHERD,S BODY HERE.
A CertiHoate Accompanied IL or Death
From Natural Causea.

A Certificate Accompanied IL OF Death
From Natural Causea.
The first suspicion that Frederick Shepherds
family had that his death at Round Lake
might have been the result OF foul play was
from the despatch from Saratoga pu blished in
THE Sun. On Friday night his wife. who ia
living at COZ Sixth avenue. received an I'M
signed telegram from Saratoga stating that
her husband was dead. and asking where the
remains should be sent. Undertaken Leonard.
who took charge at the body. told her that
there were no marks OF violence anywhere,
and the phyRicisn's certificate that accompa-
MED the remains from Saratoga stated that
Mr.. Shepherd died from natural causes. Still
Mrs Shepherd couldn't understand why his
pockets were riied and his beads were gone
He was devout Catholic. The despatch says
that wounds sufficient to cause death were
found on his head.
He lett New York week ago last Friday,
hoping to get employment In Saratoga, whore
ne used to live. lie was a private coachmdn.
and had been out OF work. The only trouble
his wife remembers that he ever had was
quarrel with another coachman. Curran Done
gan; growing out Of dispute ip the stables Il
aarriyate driving club Fifty.eiGhth street and
DopeRan's stabbing Shepherd with a knife
under one Of his eyes. At the stables last nj light
they said that Donegan hadn't been out OF
town for several weeks. The. head Of the
corpse was not examined by the undertaken
here. The face shows bruises. requiem
high mass will be offered for shepherds soul
at St Patricks Cathedral to-day.
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IS 1T CONSPIRACY3
Three Men Want to Have tho Monmouth
Trust Company InVestiRated.

Three Men Want to Have tho Monmouth
Trust Company InyeStiRated.
LONG BRANCH. July 6.-Chief Justice Meyer
Beasley held a short hearing yesterday at his
cottage at Monmouth Beach on writ OF quo
warranto which he issued last week for an In
vestigation OF the Affairs of the Monmouth
Trust and Safe Deposit Company OF Asbury
Park. The com plainants are J ohm Booz. James
Holden. and T. W. Bollss The company was
organized two years ago. The stockholders
are nearly all stockholders OF the First National
Bank OF Asbury Park. In May James H.
Roman, tho proprietor OF the Commercial
Hotel, sued the bank TO recover $lOU,0O0 for
alleged malicious prosecution. 1t Is said by
the friends OF the iruet company that Booz,
Holden. and Bodies applied to the Chief Justice
for the writ simply for the purpose OF annoy
ing the officers OF the company and TO please
Booz and Holden deposited IS each less than
q week before they applied for the writ. BoIles
deposited So tho same, day the writ was
granted. Booz lives IN Trenton and plays q
cornet In tho band Mt Romain's hotel Holden
keeps a grocery In OceQn Grove. Boes Is said
to be a farmer near Asbury Park. None OF the
three complainants asked for his money, II 10
said before they applied for the writ. Chief
Justice Beasley refused TO grant the writ. but
Secretary of state Kelsey will have the trust
company examined on Wednesday, Tho Otii-
GERS OF the trust company think hey have Sc
cured EVIDENCE sufficient to prosecute Booz
Hodon and BolleB for conspiracy to inJure the
business OF the company.
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POET WENDLANDT's BoDY RECOVERED.
It was Near where the Bodies or His
wife and Child were Found.


The body Of Franz wendlandt the Young
poet and musician who committed suicide with
his wife aud child last Wednesday night boz
cause their furniture was to be sold to satisfy
chattel mortgage OF SIS was found in the
river at the Kottordam steamship pier. In Ho-
boken, yesterday afternoon. 1t was recovered
at almost the exact spot where the body OF Mrs.
Wendlandt with her dead child clasped In her
arms was found the morning after the suicide.
Special Policeman Jones, who found the bodies
OF the woman and child ia Waterman on the
pier. He was sitting on the stringpiece at the
end OF the pier at 2 o'clock yesterday talking
to friend about the suicides when be noticed
the body OF q man floating down the river face
downward in the wster. He ran and got
boat hook and pulled the body up on the pier.
It was that Of tall young man, ana from the
recognized it at once as that oil. the suicide.
He ran, as quickly as he could to the shore
Moreue Keeper Crane Before the dead wagon
and identification Of the body had spread, and
street. The police kept them back. The body
was carried down tho pier on stretehSr and
to Tho MorEue by a large part Of the crowd, At
the Moreue 4 was laid be side the body Of the
wife aud child. Sergeant Rathlen completed
photograph which he found among the papers
and letters he took from the WendIandt apart
ments when the suicide was first known.
Pastor ,Freund. who had befriended the
Wendlandts ia their struggle for q livelihood,
also Identified the BODY. To- day he will preach
funeral sermon over the three bodies before
they are buried. The services will be held 10
st. Johns German Evangelical Church. at the
corner OF Third and bloomfield streets, at 2
O'Clock. The bodies will be buried In the same
grave In the Hobckon cemetery
Nothing more has been learned about the
life OF the Wendland,s In this country or the
reason they came here than was printed In
The SUN on Friday.
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VITRIOL FLUNG IN HIS EYES.
ERNEST MILLBR'S STORY MAKES 1T a
CASE OF PURE MALICE.

re Wac in Front OF . Soda water Factory
at 1i3O A. NJ, ne Says, when He Was
Assnulted-Tho Police Make Il Later,
and Think that Something 10 MIA.
Ernest Miller. an inofrensive- looking young
man who lives with his parents at G5 Willett
street was badly burned about the face and
neck and dislgured for life early yesterday
morning by a vltrlol thrower. Young Miller Is
employed as u clork In Buffers tea store $40
Grand street When he Quit work Just after
midnight on Saturday so he says. he left the
store with Charles Matthews a fellow en-
ployee. and together they went to an oyster
saloon In Rivington street and ordered an
oyster fry.
After we were through there." said Miller
yesterday, Charley asked me to 20 part way
homo with him, ms he 10 not very we'll ac-
auainted around here. l went with him TO his
homo In Goerck street, and returned to my
homo by way OF RivnGton. had almost
reached Willett street when hoard some loud
talking In house across the way. l thought
there was fight, and stopped for moment 10
listen. Just then man spoke up and said:
What the - are you doing hereT
Nothing at ALL I answered. and started to
60 away.
Without another word the man flung some
thing at me from q cup or glass. Then my
iron had touched them"
His assailant M lso said was lying on The
did NOT move from his reclining posture to
throw H the acid, and this probably accounts for
hs nSq aim Il The 'H dt went Tds Of
and the scalp, were, badly, burned. NJ er
water fountain on the Gnu avenue S S where here
tG' wnisp in R, charge gave Dn HIN glass
went with the victim to Louis Settlers drug
store, 100 Columbia street. Mr., Settler washed
says that he, nearly went crazy with pain dur
ing the night Yesterday afternoon he ielt
better. His hat and coat were discolored by
There Is no clue yet to his nssailants identity.
Miller says he would not know the man II he
he thinks 1t was a young man. He was in his
shirt sleeves and ran away Immediately after
Policeman Hastings found no one in the
basement whom he got there, and GOULD find
nobody who knew ANYTHING about the affair
cupied by Ludwig Fritzel as a soda water fnc-
tory but It was closed up: fritzel said yester.
uEes oil OF vitrlul in his business.
There is Just one portion Of young NIiller's
story that is not quite clear He SAYS that it
he left work. ami that it was about
!;So when he was assaulted. The blotter at
2:2O. and Druggist Seither also says 1t was
about 2 80 when he was aroused hy the police.
man. Miller accounts Tor himself during the
that he left the store and the time OF the as
sault. by saving that he went into an oyster
saloon. had n fry. and went home with his
friend Allowing forty minutes for the walk
ing done. which is liberal estimate, the INFER
was in the oyster saloon more than an hour
and q half. The police think there is q good
deal more in the case than Miller Is willing to
tell. Detective Shalvey OF the Delaney street
station Is making an Investigation.
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CAPT. BRoeAN rs AWAE
Arc All the West Fourth Street Dives to
he RnIded In His AbsenceI

Are All the West Fourth Street Dives to
BE RaIded In His AbsenceI
Acting Captain Douglass and Detective Lee
son OF the Mercer street station raided the dis
orderly house at AZ West Fourthstreet on Satur-
day afternoon and arrested Marie johnson, the
proprietor, and seven other women. The raid
was ordered by Acting Superintendent Byrnes.
who had previously notified Miss Johnson to
shut up her house by July l., but she paid no
attention to the con, commandi, t Cant Brogan is IN
lone.standiae French dives 4 in West Fourth
The Inspector used to be Captain OF the Mer-
Ger street station.
Marie johnson and the inmates. with paint
still on their faces. were .arraiRned at JEFF
ferson Market Court yesterday morning: Jus.
tice OReilly held the proprietor in $500 for
trial and required the girls to furnish $500 bail
each for their good behavior for one month.
FREDERICK Horstmann Of 3 Hall place furnished
hnil or Marie Johnson and Blanche Reynolds
Horstmann Is said to be @ member OF the
Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church
and temperance orator.
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Flames In 9aekett street, Brooklyu, Earll
Yesterday Morning.

Flames In 9ackett street, Brooklyn, EARLY
Yesterday Morning.
Fire was discovered in Nicholas Davids's
wood yard. As to 40 Backett street, Brooklyn. at
4 O'Clock yesterday morning. 1t extended to
the three-story brick buildings Al and 40
Saekett street and also to the two two
story frame houses at 80 and 80 Degraw
street. Tho International Packing Com
pany occupied one Of the Degraw street
buildings, and John O'Toole used the other
as q junk shop. Tho occupants OF Al and
43 sackett street had to leave homo In hurry.
RRpsello BAnnR and his wife. Conesito. who
lived on the third floor Of II SRckett street. al
though In comparatively little danger. became
excited and leaped from their windows into
the street. Both escaped with only slight In
jurles.
horses were burned to death. Mr. Dayids loses
four horses and he estimates the damage to
his property at $4,000. upon which there iB
an insurance Of Sll ZOO. b. Hastagen. who had
hay and feed store at 43 Rackett street, loses
81 900 on stock and horse worth $3.50. Joseph
GRakoW. who lived on the second floor lost
$500 on furniture. and ]. CostaZo. who occupied
the third foor. $500 on furniture. The stable
OF John Filter In Degraw street was burned
and two hOrses and two wagons, worth $1,000.
were destroyed. The, Packing Company lost
six hoIs es and three business wagons. worth
In all about $4,000. The origin OF tho are 10 I'M
known.
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MISSING. A JAPANESE STUDENT.
Did Okamato Make Visit To His Room
After Disnppenringi

Did Okamato Make n Visit To His Room
After Disnppearingi
N. Okamato, young japanese, who was ono
OF the law students at Columbia College last
term. and who had been In America three
years. has alarmed his friends by his con-
tinued absence during the past month. lie
boarded at AZ West Twenty-seventh street up
to a month ago. and received money orders
there regularly from his father. who Is said to
be 4 Government official In japan. The
father desired TO have the boy educated for the
lawin order that he might take Government
post when he returned to japan.
Ok8mato is about 20 years old. OF slight
build, and short in stature. He walk ed out OF
the boarding house month ago. leaving q
gold watch and chain and other vauables ne-
hind. aud di iRent search made ly acquaint-
ances has failed to reveal his whereabouts, An
order for $500 arrived from Japan some time
after his disappearance. put the postal auih ori-
ties VOL o also unable to find him.
His watch and chain and other property were
removed from his rooms some days nfterward.
and letter addressed to him was found open
ed on the bed in his room. It Is supposed that
he made secret visit to his lodgings, but no.
body saw him enter or !oave. The Young
japanese was always well dressed and had
plenty Of money.
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The Weather.

Tho high barometrio pressure with clear weather.
covered the entire Atlantic coast States yesterday
cept ANAL part OF tho Carolina and Maine coasts It
also clear In all the States south OF the Lakes and
Kansas The storm centre was In the northwest, over
South Dakota, rain falling in nearly all parts OF the
Northwest and over the lakes in eastern Canada
warm wave has again struck the central yAlloyL
At Dos AoineA Omaha North Platte. and Fort Sill the
temperature reached 1902 st. Louis 040 and Chicago
$40. This warm reaches from tho Gulf. through
the Mississippi and Missouri valleys into British Amer
lea
In this city the day fair with humidity averaging
81 per cent, WIND generally southery highest Govern.
ment temperature 800, and lowest 800
To-day and tomorrow promise TO be fair and warmer.
The Thermometer at Perry's pharmacy in TnE suH
building recorded tho temperature yesterday a.
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COUNT SALA,S LkG BROKEN.

He T'IuckIly Prevented Runaway Horse
from Running Over Women aud Children.
WASHINGTON, July G. Count Sala, First Sec-
rotary OF tho French Legation. and well known
to very many persons OF prominence in this
country. had his right leg broken this after.
noon while stopping a runaway horse which
was dashing toward some women and children
only short distance away. A horse attached
to one OF the hanson cabs at the public stand
corner OF Vermont avenue and l street. took
fright and dashed down Vermont avenue past
the Arlington Hotel. and turned into Madison
place, on which Secretary Blaine resides. The
horse had got u front Of the secretary's
residence. and 1t looked almost certain
and children in the street, when Count
tho reins. attempted TO check the animal. lie
was thrown to the ground. but succeeded in
stopping the horse and averting the threat
ened accident. When, however. be attempted
to rise be found be could not move. He was
carried into a neighborDg house where the
physicians found that his leg was broken.
subsequently he was taken to the French Lee
cation. and Is now resting quietly 1t is ex-
pected that he will be abe to get out again as
soon as the broken bone can mend, and that
no complications will ensue.
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MOE. BERNARD o'REILLY RETURNS.
A Successful Champion of tho irish Cause
ut the Vatican,

A Successful Champion of tho Irish Cause
at tho Vatican.
Mgr. Bernard O'Reilly. who left here eight
years ago to champion the Irish cause in Rome
and whose letters on many topics from Ire
land. Italy, and France have entertained and
instructed the readers of The Sun. returned
by the steamship La BretaGne. which arrived
yesterday. While abroad Mgr. O'Rely wrote
life Of Pope Leo MIL. in French and Eng
lish. and also the life OF the famous Arch
bishop OF Tuam. lie said yesterday that tho
English are making every endeavor to
influence the Vatican on the Irish question.
but that the friends OF Ireland arc alert, and
have thus far, with the aid Of tho Pope. man
aged to hold the upper hand. The general pub
lie he said have no idea OF tho moves tho
fnglieh are making. for only the big mes
come to the SURFACE. Concerning the contro-
Corrigan respecting DR.. .McGlynn, he said that
as he had not been in Rome when 1t came up
no could say nothing further than that 1t was
bettor understood here than across the water.
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MET BY CHANCE AND FOUGHT
Mr.. MANNING and MIR. KENNdDY
ROLL OYER AND OpER.

Kennady's Collar Bone Broken It WINS
Touch and Go and No Quarter Until
They Were Pulled Apart by the Police.
ATLANTIC CRY, July c. Two citizens OF
Washington were the principals In u tussle in
n barber shop here to-day They are J. +.
Manning proprietor OF the Monumental Marble
Works. and KavhnauRh X. Kennady. a $1,000
clerk in the Post once Department They
have been on bad terms for four years and
they came face to face for the FIRST time to-day.
since sensational episode estranged them.
Manning had Just been shaved, and
In reaching for his coat he came In contact
with Kennady. who sprsng un and struck him
singing blow in the face They clnched an
fought like tigers for q few minutes, creating
CONSERVATION in the shop and upsetting chairs
and showcases and breaking mirrors. Man
ming had the best OF it, and finally he throw
Kennady, whose collar bone was broken by
the fall. They were now rolling on the floor,
and when the police arrived they had 10 tug
at tho contestants to get them apart
They were taken to the City Hall. Kenngdy
was held In $500 bail on a charge OF assault
and battery. His wife was present and offered
a largo diamond ring and other jewelry which
she valued at 81 800 as collateral for the bail
named. Justice Irving refused 1t. Mnnning
furnished $500 bail to appear at the trial TO.
morrow morning as a witness.
Kennady's wife is the granddaughter Of John
Rowan of Kentucky. who was Senator for three
terms and later Minister 10 France. Her
father is the veteran Commodore Reed Of
the navy Kennady comes from Oxford.
Miss. and says he ia a prot'g6 OF
Justice Lamar, who had him appointed to his
present place while he was Secretary OF the
Interior His application was endorsed by L.
G. Houk OF Tennessee. W.. ,. Allison Of Iowa.
and Senator Mcrherson OF New Jersey. He has
been here for two weeks with his wife on u
VACATION. Manning, who is repnted to be quite
wealthy. gives version of the difficulty which
invol Ives pretty German American nurse girl
employed 10 his family. with whom kennady
got acquainted. one OF the results was
that he orde' ell kennady to Ieave town.
He says KennadY even threatened to kin him.
Their meeting 70. day was complete surprise
to both. Neither knew the other was hole.
kennady admitted there was q woman in the
case Tonight. but denied that it was poor
nurse girl.
Late TO night, W. NJ, Allen, OF Baltimore, who
owns property here. furnished bail for kenna-
dys release. The Impression prevails that he
will waivo n hearing Tomorrow, and allow his
case to 60 over untilthe September term Of the
court, which Is held at Mays Landing.
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NO HELP FROM THEIR FELLOW JEWS
why the Striking CIoakuakers Are Lett
TO Themssives-ResoIutIon OF the q. l.. u.

why the Striking CIoakuakers Are Lett
TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF the q. l.. u.
Ever since the stories OF the destitution OF
tho striking cloakmakers wero first published
many people have wondered why the wealthy
jews In this city, who are usually 30 ready to
help those OF their own race in distress have
not come forward with aid for those poor peo-
pie. The fact that there are nearly 5000 Polish
Jews penniless and half starved in one OF the
fllthiest districts in New York cannot be de-
MED, yet all the money which has como TO
them In charity so far has come from Genties.
Sun reporter called up several jewish NOR
chants who are well known for their gifts to
charitable enterprises, and asked them the
reason. The answers varied. One OF them. q
patron Isyt. Of the United Hebrew Charities, made
III these jews, are suffering Il 10 Of their own
volition. | am informed that II they want TO
os SSSk Jews 70 WGk their who Are
fRd thsy thSs n an end to
70 protect the Interests OF one Of their assooia.
tion. The mon had no grievance whatever
union recognized. II, they are going TO strike
for h they donbs k ths
miserable, but no man who employs workmen
will contribute one cent to alleviate It. for II he
aSS T X. Sn Be &c 80 %Sh
and Illogical position. These men are able
bodied beings and have trade: Work Is
I poGt tR6onsolves' or let them refuse it and
Hnother reason which aeems tn dotar MANY
jews from helping these people Ia that most
Of the strikers are Socialists. and do not attend
soSialistic principles and the Greater NUMBER Sr
Of them are avowed atheists. There is no way
Of iaS hST SsS the E % % Both
srs strike were adopisd ~ tho cepfrSi LABOR
n lnn naHA fNnN In al
Of Abraham sehwsb who Is member Of one
q the flr%s which belong e The association.
clause OF the resolution roads:
IF .s a hs .Ss e ana
:a.a snd and a& L S es Mr.
The second asked the law officers Of the
county" to examine into the action, Of the
tSs IN TO
which was 9 very long one. wound up by de-
elnring that failure to proceed aGainst tho
tho workinRmen that. the administration Of
criminal law DISTINGUISHES between Grimes
Grimes committed By .workincmen and poor
ES1pe In LAYS oyor q the former and aGsns the
Whereas the members of the manufacture
Long Branch, Newport. &C.. satanicaliy' await.
ing the starving Of their employees, &c."' 1t
the moral and in sneiaI support Of every Cen
trail Labor organization in the country
The Central Labor Union decided Yesterday
to raise TIE boycott on the Knickerbocker
brewing Company, as o committee reported
that only union men were employed there
Union: Lodge 513. United Brotherhood OF Car
Penters and Joiners: United PiaaoMakers'
Association of Bookbinders, and Carl sahm
Club.
James P. Archibald, william A. Hotehkiss,
and Philip Kelly were Amounted to epeak at
the mass meeting OF the cloRkmakers In Cooper
Union next Thursday night
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RANG AND ASKED FOR ROOD.
And HIT bryce GrRy's Butler with an Una
breIIa when He DIdn't Get II.

And Hit bryce Gray'S Butler with an Um.
breIIa when He Didn't Get II.
A colored man who was fairly we'll dressed
and carried an umbrella rang the bell at the
basement OF MIR. Bryce Gray's residence at 554
Fifth avenue on Saturday night. When Samuel
D. Wisner. the butler, came to the door, the
negro asked him for something to eat. Wisner
saw that the man was stout and healthy look
ing, and refused TO give him anything. He was
about to close the door when the negro struck
him over the head with the umbrella and ran
out. Wisner followed him and had him ar
rested.
willie Police Court yesterday, and told Justice
Mcmahon that he preferred not TO have any
tice Insisted and Wisner was compelled TO
make an affidavit The prisoner said he was
street. Ho said no had come from New Haven
few DAYS ago looking for work and had been
went to Mr.. Grays house He denied striking
Wiener, He was committed In default OF bail