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NOT IN CONSOLIDATED GROUND.
Why the Murdered Mrs. Stocker Was Not
Buried In Calvary.

ouFlcu NalVarys
The funeral OF Mrs. Stockor. who was shot
by her husband. Arthur Stocker in Jersey City
last Thursday morning took place Mt 2 clock
yesterday afternoon from the Tierney home,
90 Zabrskie street. Before the hour Of the
funeral Il largo crowd had gathered about tho
house. and squad OF police was necessary to
keep the way clear in front OF the door.
1t had been intended to hold the funeral on
Sunday and from the st. Nicholas Roman
Catholic Church. and to mako the interment
In Calvary Cemetery. but Bishop Wigeer would
not permit it Last Friday evenln. Mrs. Tier
ney. Mrs. Stocker's mother. visited Father
Weyland, pastor OF st. Nchoas's. to make ar
rangements for the funeral After reviewing
the case. Father Weyland said that no could
not permit the body to be inferred in conse-
Grated ground until he had consulted the
Bishop and gained his consent. He gave
Mrs. Tierney a letter to tho Bishop.
which she presented to him on Saturday.
The Bishop produced several newspapers con-
tanning accounts Of the tragedy. and asked
correct. and she admitted that they were. The
Bishop then positively refused to allow the
body to be Inferred in Calvary.
This Is the reason the interment was made
no religious service at either the house or
the grave. Coroner Parslow postponed the in
quest unit tonight because he did not wish
to bring the father and mother direct from the
There Is q rumor. about the Fourth district
that petition will be sent to the Legislature
asking for tho removal Of George Bremner.
who. together with John f. Dunn. WAS con-
tragedy. Brenlner is doorkeeper in the AS
sembly chamber.
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long and 40 feet beam. Her hold is 20 feet
deep. and. as you look into It from the main
deck. it looks like vast cavern crossed By oak
beams against which no force OF wind or
waves or tide could in the least prevail
She can be sunk to draw % feet Of water
without interfering with her safety. just now
she is nearly empty. and as one stands upon
the pier looking at her. her walls rise SO that
it takes an unusual ladder to reach her deck.
From tho main deck her length and the height
of her masts are even moro impressive than
when seen at q little distance Her three for
ward mnsts are 30 feet high and 38 inches In
diameter. The topmasts are 50 feet long.
and the topgallants are GS feet long.
Thus. the sailor who climbs up her mainmast
to the truck is PIT feet above the deck. and to
those upon tho deck looks exceedingly small
and most dangerously situated. There is no
steam about the vessel except for the small
engine which raises and lowers the four-ton
anchors. and which may be attached to the
pump in case the vessel should spring a leak.
The windlass Is complicated. heavy. affair,
quite as much beyond the old-fashoned
around which the sailors tramped and sang.
as the Shenandoah is beyond the sailing ves-
sells OF the romances. go
She carries crew Of twenty men. with a
steward. carpenter. and four officers. The
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
IS CHAPMAN INSANEy
Two Doctors Declare He IL, bat His Law.
yers HIVE Something to Say Yet


Hawley Chapman was again arraigned be.
fore Justice Walsh in the Adams Street Police
Court in Brooklyn On q charge Of having
threatened his wife. but In the absence OF Mrs.
Chapman. who. it was said. was unable to ap-
pear. the examination was adjourned until
to-day. subsequently Chapman WAS brought
before Judge Moore in tho Court OF Sessions In
the lunacy proceedings which had also been
begun by his wife, The certificate Of DR.. Jo-
seph Creamer and his son. DR.. Joseph N.
Dreamer. was presented. It Set forth
that they had examined Chapman In
the jail and found him insane The
physicians said that Chapman had used liauor
and tobacco, freely and opium and choral to
excess. and that an uncle on the mat OF nal
side had been insane and his mother eccen-
trio. While the proceedings wore in progress
Mrs Chapman appeared in the court room.
lawyer Johr A. Anderson. asked Judge Moore
TO sign papers committing her husband to an
insane asylum. Judge Moore refused to sign
the papers. ms the name OF the institution
whore 1t Was proposed To send Chapman had
not been inserted. latcrth pa pcrs were again
submitted to Judge Moore with the Amtyville
Insane Asylum inserted rs the place OF com
nitinent. but Judge Moore again declined to
sign them Chapnann's lawyer having, de-
come before Judge Moore agar this morning.
The experts, IN the Charities Department
have examined Chapman and pronounced him
an unit subject for II lunatic ASYLUM They
suggested that the proper place for him was
the lnebriates' Home.
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A CHINESE EXHIBITION.
Tie Sunday School OF st. Andrews Church
Shows What 1t Can DO.

pnO"u '" NV - INN DOs
st. Andrews Episcopal Church at 127th
street and Fifth avenue has had Chinese
Sunday school for the past four years. Last
night thirty members OF this school gave m
exhibition In tho basement Of the church OF
how much they had learned from the young
women who have been teaching them. There
were lots OF pretty Harlem girls In the audi
enco to encourage the Cinnamon with ap.
plause.
Mrs. Frances Parker Is the superintendent
OF the school, and Mrs. Tanning has tried to
teach the Cinnamon music. Most of the
Cinnamon wore their national costumes last
night. and Ind their pigtails wound In little
knots on, top Of their heads. They had good
nr ths s"a sss Ths as Of
the laundry business, All Gin, Lee Ling.
HOAX Fin. and Joseph June were the ushers:
Chu Chow; who is very much Interested IN
Ind been ACCOMPLISHED IN this line Of work.
Then the different members OF the Sunday
school walked VI t. the platform IN turn hand and
a aida r seem s"s to sHs ss they
because they were musical. but Just TO show
what they could do, Those who. have, been at
tending st Andrews, Sunday school. however.
Chorus r s and several Of them Attempted solos.
Every performer. whether he sang, read. or
recited; was 9ppl4uded vigorously; ., A.
The Rev. Dr. Sandewater FAD, after the
henrtily, IN sympathy with the work done
there. Every Chinaman. when he first enters
dnty sf is to tsaeH lin English. Many Of the
teachers are hurried women. When the Chi
namen, learn II little, English they are grouped
Monday evenings In the basement Of the
church.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
The GILLIAN Amnesty.

The Nilian Times OF Dec. 20 gives the bill OF
amnesty PASSED by Congress without oppose
ton. The bill. emitting the preamble. is as
follows:
"A general amnesty Is granted to Nil persons
who may have been or might be tried for
political offences committed from Jan. l to
Aug. 20. 1891.
the said general amnesty: The first and
second commanders OF vessels and those who
served the Dictatorship in the capacity OF
tary Tribunals. tho signrrs Of notes paper
money Cabinet 81, Diplomatic Ministers.
tho so-eallel Congress and OF the superior
tribunals Of Justice The common offences OF
which public functionaries and private per-
guilty are also. excepted from the amnesty,
aud WILL be tried according to law"
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FOR INMAN STEAMSHIPA
The New Pier Above vesey Street Likely
to be Let TO the Int national Company.


to be Let to the International Company.
At the meeting OF the Dock Commissioners
last Thursday. Third Vice-Presdent Wright.of
the International Steam Navigation Company
offered $4,000 year for ten-year lease OF
the new pier on the North River between Bar
clay and Vesey streets. for tho use OF the In
man line. The Commissioners thought
the pier should be worth at least $4,000 a
year. but resolved to defer definite action until
Commissioners Crane and Phean considered
the matter. report will, probably be submit
ted at the next meeting OF tho Board.
The new pier il No. II and cost $4,000. It
has been tho custom heretofore to sell the lease
OF the piers mt auction. and in nearly every
such case a desirable pier fell into tho hands
OF q railway corporation Commissioner Cram
30 eager for piers that they always outbid
steamship companies.
The. result OF this" he said. lis that all the
steamship lines are being. driven to Jersey
CITY and Brooklyn; am in favor OF permitting
at Si2,50O. The Wilson Steamship Company ON ANY
wns driven to Brooklyn. where It secured three
piers for what we asked for one. This COM
pany employs 300 'longshoremen. In any
event we went turn the ,Iier oyer to the com
building, will be finished"
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Abandon. the pu,p,t for Journalism

Three months ago the Rev. !. Edgar Rider
was called to the pulpit Of tho Church OF the
Reconciliation. at North Henry street and Mas
sau avenue. Greenpoint. Tho membership Of
the church had dwindled to almost nothing.
and AZ soon as Mr.. Rider began his pastoral
duties the church began to prosper again. Az
ter tho services on sunday he surprised tho
congregation by resigning No cause was
given, and the resignation created a great deal
~ surprise Mr.. Rider announced Yesterday
that his reason for rrsignng was to abandon
IN this city He added that his relations with
the church were harmonious and pleasant, and
no would continue to preach until May l.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
STOLE MS Ef1LIER'S HORSE
Fifern.yenr.OId William Henry Smith Rum
Awny from Home.

A15-ycar-old boy with fat face and wear
ing II blue overcoat and knickerbockers sat on
Il bench in the Long Island City Police Conrt
yesterday mo rningand rubbed the knuckles OF
his int hand in his bright black eyes In vain
attempt to sqecze out u tear. He was william
Henry Smith OF Oyster Bay. He disappeared
from his homo one day last week. SO did $40
belonging to woman who was visiting his
mother. Tho search that followed was with
out results The boys father keeps q grocery
IN Oyster Bay. When he, entered his stable
gone. He took tho next train for Long Island
Cay ard got there luitn carly,
On his way to the POLICE station tG;notify the
police vi his loss he met policeman Wheeler at
the junction Of Vernon and Jackson avenues.
Ilr began detailing his. loss to Policeman
Wheeler, when Il horse with II boy on its back
came gaoping down Jackson avenue toward
the ferry. Mr.. Smith at once recognized the
horse NJ his property and the boy AS his son.
and Policeman Wheeler took them into GUS
In the police court the boy told Justice Kay
anagh he took the horse only for ride. He
denied stealing the $40 which disappeared at
the same time he did but he was unable to
account for the miscellaneous collection OF
articles the police found in, his pockets:
Among them were theatre tickets packs Of
cigarettes. and pictures OF himself that he had
had taken: His father wants him sent to
some institution.
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THE FUNERAL or GEN BARNUM
A Military Escort 20 the Church asd = En-.
IoGy by the Rev. DIR. Paxton.

lORy nv the nev. 1T. PaxtOn.
The funeral Of Cen Henry A. Barnum took
place yesterday morning from tho West Pros
byterian Church, In West Seventy second
street. II WAS attended by many uniformed and
ununiformed veterans. The CONN was COW
cred with tho Stars and Stripes and placed on
caisson drawn BY ak black horses Follow
ing the cof1ln was horse In black trapplngs.
and with boots and spurs reversed in the
stirrups
The funeral procession was formed as fol-
lows: Sixty-ninth Regiment, Capt. Wendelrs
First Battery. tho Old Guard. followed by tho
army band from Fort Hamilton. and @. A. r.
men. headed by George Washington Post 1O3.
Of which Gen. Barnum was member. These
were followed by citizens and veterans The
procession moved through Forty-fourth street
to Sixth avenue. aid thence to the church In
Forty second street Six members OF the Old
were Gsn E. ssfsp a socum
Mahon. " Gen. ,Fits john Porter. Gen. w. B.
Whipple. Col: James l.. Jones' Henry c. Dpval
ssi Hesf &SsMF Sewn WaSd H"Sr
;sRS 7 prewS. COL Jas. SIT 5. Fraser. ' and Albert
The services were o Soadseted b the hey
RSoa thai s Il EvetS
DR.. Paxton delivered eulogy ON the life and
services OF the deccased.
After the services the remains were escorted
to the Grand Central station. where they were
forwarded to Syracuse for internent Tho i'm
mediate family Of tho deceased, who accom-
panied the body to Syracuse, were Mrs. Henry
4. Barnum, tho widow of Willis Barnum. o
brother. and Lieut.. Malvern Hill Barnum, U.
4. A.. who Is stationed at Fort Leavenworth. Q
son.
Among the persons present were Gen. Alex
ander Shaler Gen. Frederick a. Hopper. Col.
Edward d. Dow. Capt. Edward Boyle. Capt
James W. Clark. Major Joseph Forbes. Dewitt
G. Wheeler, United States District Attorney
Charles D. Baker Andrew Jardine, Chaplain
Samuel j. Willis Of Cameron Post @. A. H., tho
Rev. W. NJ. Richie. Major George Chappell. DIR.
a. H. Merriam x;AlMdsrman barker X,Ader-
Floyd B. Clarks.HGn. ,killaen Van Rensselaer.
Br BRITT Major Willard Bullard. ex,Tire Com
missioner Porley. Albert W. Orr. Theodore
Moss. OK Sheriff lowe, Commissioners Stephen
son and Stern, u. X. Lamsey. and James H.
Meade
Gen. -Rarnum was candidate for United
States District Attorney Of New York city when
Harrison came in. His services as an army
officer were urged and MS. qualifications ns
lawyer were brought to tho attention OF the
President. Gen. lIarnum was greatly dis
appointed when the President declined to
recognize his claims. 1t was left to Gov. Hill
to sonthe the wounded pride Of the Republican
General On Maya. 1888. Coy. I'LL nominated
Gen. Darnum for the place OF Port Warden. 1t
was worth So. 900 q year. and was all that the
dead General had. He died penniless.
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ocean travel. As she is viewed from the North
River. no iron vessel car compare with her In
beauty. Her lines are 30 graceful and her lofty
masts and the innumerable lines OF her rig
gng are SO beautiful and 80 full Of sugges-
tons Of speed.
The Shenandoah is one Of four vessels built
and building at Bath for the Atlantic and Pacific
freight trade The first was the Rappahan-
mock. Of 3. 1876 tons. burned at sea three months
ago. The Shenandoah. Of 3.408 tons. was the
next Then comes the Susquehanna, Of 2.744
tons. and in few months will he completed
the Roanoke. Of 100 tons. the largest OF the
series Of which the Shenandoah Is now the
largest afloat
The Shenandoah is the largest sailing vessel
in the world except the France. which. having
five masts. spreads about thousand yards
more canvas. The Shenandoah is 800 feet
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
WAS SIZE BURIED ALIYES
The BODY OF Miss Frances Burke VIII -
Disinterrcd by y Suspicious Coroner.

BUFFALO. Feb. 1.-Dunkirk is excited over
the story that Miss Frances Burke. 10 years
old. an heiress to a considerable fortune. was
buried alive there on Saturday. The young
woman lived with her parents. She had been
i'll for some time with pulmonary trouble. and
on Friday morning was taken with o coughing
tit and fell over apparently lfeless. No doctor
was cal ed and arrangements were made with
Undertaken Kolb to take charge OF the body.
The mother protested. saying that her daugh.
ter was not dead but owing to the fact that
the priest who was to conduct tho funeral SER
vices wished to leave the city on Saturday
afternoon. hasty preparations were made and
the intcrment took place that morning.
Before the body was carried from the house,
It is said. looking-glass was placed over the
young woman s mouth. and when taken away
there was moisture upon 1t. Her lips were
red. and the color came and went in her face
At the cemetery the mother requested that
the coffin lid lie taken off, and this was done.
A needle and mirror were produced for Q
test but before these could be used the comm
was agai closed. and the undertaken refused
to open it.
Coroner Blood knew nothing Of the affair
unit! Saturday. but he has taken the matter IN
hand. and will make an investigation. Mr..
kolb said that he had q burial certificate
signed by Dr. J. w. Pond. but the latter Gays
that he has not issued a burial certificate for
a year. The body will be disinterred
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
FI7ZSIMMONy CAUGHT
Arrest In New Orleans Of the Man WhS
Shot Detective GIlkinson.

ArFest IN now OrlennS OF the Man WHO
Shot Detective Gilkinson.
PITTSBURGH Feb 1.-Frederick C. Fitzsim-
mons was captured yesterday In John
Schmidt's hotel in New Orleans.
The murder with which Fitzslmmons was
charged and for which he was about to bS
tried here when he made his notable escape
from the Allegheny county Jail. was his shoot
ing Detective Gilkinson and Constable MUIR
ply on the afternoon OF March 81. 1901. while
resisting arrest in his house at Bulls Run.
opposite McKeesport. The officers forced
their way in and Fitzsimmons sprang from his
bed. half dressed. and opened fire upon them.
He killed Gilkinson on the spot. and Murphy
was badly wounded. On the following night
FitZsimmons was arrested in Homestead. He
was tried and convicted on two charges Of rob.
berry. His murder trial was postponed to the
September term and his escape still further
postponed 1t. His defence was to be that ne
fought in his own house. against a sudden att
tack. rs he supposed. made upon his wife His
wife was tried az an acGomplice after his ,es-
cape. 1t being claimed that she handed her
husband a second revolver during tho fight.
and she was convicted and sentenced to sew
eral years imprisonment. i.
Seldom have greater efforts been made to 4
capture a criminal In this country than have
been put forth since FitZsimmons's escape
last September. FitZsmmons belongs to a.
wealthy family in Brookvie. Ont.
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HARRIS WILL NOT TESTIFY.
mrs LAWYERS CLOSE HIS OFFENCE OF
THE CHARGE OF MURDER.

r.or,,ouat,on OF tho Expert Criticisu, OF
Ihemi.t Syitthnus's Aualysis-Phys ictnns
Contradict the Prosecutions Witnesses
the Summing UP 70 he Mado To-day.
Nothing but expert testimony was offered by
cha defence yesterday In the Carlyle W. Harris
murder trial. and with this Lawyers Taylor and
Jerome closed their case Tho announcement
chat tho defence rested was a surprise to
avery ono. as 1t had been generally understood
that several members OF the Harris family and
nossibly Harris himself would testify Miss
McCready, nm aunt OF the prisoner. was the
only witness other thnn experts who has
cone on tho stand for tho defence. sho simply
testified to tho general good character OF the
defendant.
Lawyers Taylor and Jerome rely entirely
upon their expert testimony to prove that Car
lyle Harris Is innocent OF tho charge OF poison
ing Helon Potts. The evidence OF Drs. BiGgs.
Dana, and Roosevelt, who were heard yester-
day, was for the purpose OF showing the i'm
possibility OF deciding accurately what was
the cause OF Helen Pottss death.
Harris has desired from tho FIRST to 60 on the
stand, but his lawyers decided that It was bot.
tar poicy not to expose him to Mr.. Wellmans
cross.examination. The Assistant District
Attorney said yesterday that much OF the labor
OF the prosecution counts for naught because
Harris has not been put on the stnnd. MIR.
wellman said that evidence had been secured
that Harris went to n lawyer to see about get
tlnea divorce from Helen Potts shortly before
her death. This could not be brought out In
the regular way. rs 1t was privileged COM
munlcation between a lawyer and his client,
and was therefore barred out under the stint.
Attorney to confront Harris with the lawyer In
the court room
The interest in the trial was more intense
yesterday than on any previous day. The cor
ridors OF the brown.stone building were
chokcd all day with o struggling mass OF mon
and women using oil their wits to gain an en-
trance to Part iii, The police could drive tho
men from the hall. but they could not get rid
around Doorkeerer Wund and begged to get
In. Recorder .Smyth was annoyed several
times by the disturbances In the corridor, and
once he threatened to suspend one. OF his court
officers II order was, not preserved. AT recess
the crowd about the door redoubed their ef-
forts. and Wund had to keep some OF the more
persistent out Of the room by main force.
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Didn't Want to Write His Name " II. clifford
Wood"

Harry Clifford Wood. young lawyer has for
some time been dissatisfied with his name.
Harry" was the Objectionable feature. and
yesterday he obtained permission from Chief
Judge Clement OF the City Court to drop it. ana
in the future he will be known as plain Clifford
Wood. In his petition to the court Mr.. Clifford
explained that no did not consider Harry
proper Christian name.
He further said that IL he wrote tho name In
NH It w4S too long; ana that II he put 1t g II.
diced against. him. Mr.. Wood added that he
was q married man. and soon expected an az;
be his desire to give him his own name II, fuil,
but 1t would BIO very disagreeable TO him and
his wife to give him tho pet name OF Harry"
granting the petition. "
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What sunkeu Craft 10 Thisv

Tho tug North America left Delaware Break
water yesterday morning to find and identify q
sunken steamer or Cape Henlopen. The
steamer-if she is a steamer-was passed on
Sunday ninc miles southeast OF the cape by
the Norwegian. freight msnip Suniatra,
from Shields. Capt. Natvig says that only the
two t"oGmusts Of the sunken steamer were vsi-
n,r, LhG upper Lart Of the |nasts was black
sign flew from one Of the masts. "
me North America returned ON the after
cd that the sunken vessel "is, or has been.
steamer. and lies In l0h fathoms." Il Is
possible that the wreck may be a sunken coal
steamships. ~'
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TO GET A DIVORCE.
DR.. JOHN, C. LESTER OF BROOKLYN
IN SOU7H DAKOTA.

ne Bays HE Wife Deserted Hin and Re.
fused TO Come "a South Dakota 70 live
with Hinn-She Also Played the Spy on
HIS Women Patients-Her Denial.
Tho suit for absolute divorce which DR.. John
G. Lester. q Brooklyn physician. has begun in
Sioux Falls. 8. D.. against his wife on charge
Of cruelty and desertion. will be energetically
contested by Mrs. Lester. who is now at
Goshen. Conn.,. with her mother. Mrs.
Testers lawyer. Charles Woodruff OF tho law
firm OF Woodruff d Butler In the Equitable
building. received a copy OF the complaint
only day or two ago and he Immediately
sent word to Lawyer ]. W. Jones OF Sioux Falls
to cooperate with him in conducting the
defence.
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LINEMEN IN LINE FOR BATTLE
Strikes Against tho Edison Company Or.
dered Throughout the City.


dered Throughout the City.
Tho electrical linemen's union. known rs
No. 5.46S OF tho American Federation OF Labor.
began its fight against the Edison Company
for employing non-union workmen In dead
earnest yesterday. Walking Delegate Ivory
OF the union obtained authority from the
Board Of Walking Delegates to ordor num-
Der OF general strikes on buildings throughout
the city where nonunion linemcn are en-
ployed.
The first building on which strike was or
dered was the Fisher building. About fifty
men went out there. including engineers. car
Eeentters: steamiItters. gasiItters and lnborofs.
buildings. the men who went out on nll num-
bering from l5O to 200. As the electric wiro
men are about the last mechanics Mt work on
a building it is only in ,exceptiona! cases
where q strike Of other trades can be, ordered
by them. Nothing could be done by the walk
inG delegate at the age building where mono
a largely attended meetln. Of the union WAS
held ut Pythagoras Hall last night. ut which
the uctlon OF Walking Delegate Ivory was en-
dorsed. Moro strikes are to DO ordered to-day.