The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Harris Counsel Confident of Secur.
ing a New Trial.

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lawyers are quoted as saying that such
an outcome is certain.
The first move will be made next Mon
day before Recorder Smyth. If new
trial is there denied, and time is set for
the removal of Carlyle w. Harris
from the face of the earth
by electrocution, then notice OF
Taylor, Jerome and Davidson, and this,
in itself acting as q stay of proceedings.
will leave Harris in the Tombs till the
matter is settled by the Court of Appeals,
perhaps year hence
waterbury's Nephew Arrested for the
Abduction.
GREENWICH, Conn, Feb. 4. 1S92:-
Charles E. Waterbury is in custody
here, having been arrested at his home
late last night on charge of being con-
cerned in the kidnapping of little Ward
Waterbury. his cousin,
He was captured on the county road
near his home in Sandwich, Conn.,, at
about ten p. m.
He was walking along the road fully
dressed with a bundle of clothes under
his arm and had a cooked revolver in his
hand.
He denied any share In the plot to kid
nap the boy, and said he would stand
trial.
Young Russell Sage Dead.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 1S92.-Russell Sage,
Jr.. the nephew and heir of Russell Sage,
died at Ills o'clock this morning at
the Windsor Hotel, where he has
been i'll for some time from meningitis.
He was fifty-three years old.
Russell Sage, Jr., was bachelor and
a man of ease rather than a
business man, though he figured
as director in many corporations in
which the chiluless uncle for whom he
was named was interested.
He was possessed of a handsome for
tune. and made 100000. it is said. on a
Granger railway deal, and as much more
on a pool last fall.
During the great Missouri Pacific strike
riots of IA year ago at St. Louis he was on
the ground and in the midst of the
trouble.
He care little for piling up money. and
lived happy bachelor life at his clubs. or
lounged in hotel lobbies, telling good
stories, and making others as well as
himself happy, playing crack game of
billiards.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 1S92.-The British
steamship arrived in port today. First
Officer Yorker was in cnarge because of
the death of the former commander, Cap
tain Glasscool, from yellow fever, in port
at Santos.
In all seven members of the Busson' IS
crew have died of yellow fever. The
other victims of the scourge were
William Baker. Fourth Officer; Austin
Huggard, the second steward. and James
Lee, James Ely. John Brennan and Frank
Dauman, all firemen.
-Four other members of the crew were
also stricken and were landed at Bahia
and sent to a hospital there.
The Busson's commander reports that
the scourke is raging in Bahia with terri
bic results.
Bunco O'Brien Brought Back
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 1S92:-The Guion
Line Steamer Arizona, five days overdue,
arrived in port this morning. having on
board Tom O'Brien, the bunco steerer,
who is wanted in Albany for swindling
James w. Peck of that city out of $40, 000
He was in custody of Detective Reilly of
Albany.
O'Brien had vowed to escape or die be
fore he reached New York, and he was
closely guarded. AS a consequence he
failed to carry out his oath and
was safely landed. He was
| arrested at the time of the swindle, but
escaped and has since been having a good
time in Europe. His fight against extra
| dition was vigorous but unsuccessful