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ghat has been stricken out. His experience in
as that tested to by Mrs. Herrenan Mi .nT and he
also mentioned Gus Blumenthal, man fnpli-
Gated in bail-bond fixing by Mrs Herreman.
srly accentuated that the Police Justices must
know the general reputation Of such men as Gus
binmenthal and Hochstein, and should not
Mr.. Moss-Why. Of course the Justices know
insolvent, yet accept them as bondsmen over
and over. even after prisoners have forfeited
So sass had given and the bond has not been
DIsoRDERLY HOUSES NOW OPEN.
Mr.. Moss next called TO the witness stand Will
lam L. Soyer, who Is an agent for the Lexow coun-
witness continuous dereiction OF duty on the part
of the Captains OF the Fifteenth and Nineteenth
many disorderly houses are running openly in
spite Of tho committees disclosure. The com
LeIow asked OF MIR. Moss:
Are you not proving that instead of the off,
GER: being dereli.t Il is impossible to suppress
Mr. MMr; Moss replied that in his opinion the house.
the revenue from them was at this time "a
grounding case"
.,Chsirpan LeIow asked: -" Do you conscien-
tiously believe, Mr.. Moss that, In spite OF the
teyelopments here, the, police are again taking
brtbes from di.orderly houses"
dence which do not now wish 10 disclose. "
Senator o'Connor suggested that the police
without a court warrant. Mr.. Goff, who had re-
turned to the court room, explained for the
hundredth time the law which gives the Super
tntendent OF Police the power u issue his own
warrants for the raiding OF disordery or gam
bling houses. This precpitated a discussion Of
that law. which Senator O'Connor thought was
outrageous, and Mr.. Goff agreed that as the law
had been applied with evil purpose and TO no
good purpose II should be repealed. Still, he
wanted to show that with the law In existence
the police had not raded notorious houses known
20 every child on the street. which the agents OF
the counsel had no difficulty In entering openly.
Then . social evil discussion was entered
senator o'Connor. who introduced a social
purity Dill Tor Mrs. Granns, remarked rather
hopelessly that he could get no one ~ vote for
II. He thought the blackmail or the inmates
or disorderly houses crime Infinitely
worse than that which the blackmAil was paid
20 protect. He hoped that the committee would
have tho advantage OF some expert testimony
- to what, II anythinR can be done to cure the
eocial evil. These views seemed TO shock Mr..
Moss, who replied TO the intimatiOa, II Senator
better 10 regulate than attempt 10 suppress the
social evil, by saying that IL would be equally
against the fundamental avs OF society and
against the Ten Commandments To repeal the
laws against tho social evil to repeal the laws
against stealing.
THIS BOSTON MAN COULDN'T PAY THE TAX.
Mr.. Soyer was withdrawn from the witness
stand At the end OF the discussion temporarily
and Marcus ID. Mccarthy, a man from Boston,
was sworn. In 1891 he came from Boston to
this city and bought the saloon l0l West street.
During two years he paid 5000 to the police. In
1901 he paid 500 personally TO Capt. Slsvin,
who told him that for that money he would be
allowed to keep open on Sunday. Six months
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WHO WAS THIS OLD NAM
Believed to Have Taken Poison ana to
Have Hidden HIS Owa Name.

A patient who was entered on the books of the
homeopathic Hospital in Brooklyn ~ David
Jones, aged 90, OF 20 Fulton street, died in that
institution at 3 O'Clock yesterday morning from
strychnine poisoning. He was poorly dressed,
but his clothing was clean and his conversation
was that OF person of refinement. Jones re-
fused to tell OF his friends. and tho police OF
Brooklyn are trying to find out something about
him.
He was taken Ill on Tuesday evening in q
room at 20 Fulton street, which Is q cheap lodg-
ing house. He had appeared there at O'Clock
that afternoon, and the proprietor said that he
had never seen him before. Jones was taken
with violent conyulsions early in the evening
and, when questioned by the people in the lodg-
ing house, said that he believed strychnine had
been given to him by mistake for a Doyer's
powder which he had purchased from n drug
gist ON Jay street. The police Intervene ed every
druggist on Jay street yesterday. but there was
no record OF either, strychnine or Dover's pow
der having been sold by any OF them
The authorities at the hospital believe that
Jones took the poison with suicidal intent, and
gave false name to veil his identity. There
was nothing about his clothing or effects calcu-
lated 10 furnish a clue to his Identity. He was
about 80 years OF age, feet 10 inches in height
weighed about 225 pounds and had gray nous
tache and gray beard OF three or four weeks
growth.
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HER BURGLAR LOVER.
A Young Woman Makes . Scene at .
Trial at RiverheaA.


RrvERHEAD. Dec. GA blonde young lady.
stylishly attired and with thick black veil
over her face. made q scene in tho court room
here this morning.
Matthew Kennedy. who was implicated In the
Patchoguo Post ONCE robbery last June. was
on trial. In the party Of robbers were four 9TH
ers. These have not yet been arrested. Ken
nedy's friends had promised to help him in his
defence. but they deserted him. At the last
moment he pleaded guilty.
When he was being taken into the court room
the yGIns woman sprang TO hip. SyyinE:
your friends are now. For Gods sake do as
wish you to-"
I She forced the prisoner and Deputy Sheriff
Vail, who was shackled TO him. both against the
wall. All through the proceedings she wept
and was hysterical. 1t was with difficulty that
she was kept away from her lover.
She said she was May Lee OF New York. and
that Kennedy and she were engaged, and would
have been married but that her lover, did not
wish to bring disgrace upon her family. She
afterward pleaded with Kennedy TO disclose the
names OF his confederates. but he would not.
Kennedy will be sentenced tomorrow.
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GERMANS CHARGES ARE IN.
JUDGES CoWINo AND FITSGERALD
ON THE STAND.

Ne. rhEiips Triss - Get The- - ssy
thss Thsir wsrk wee Hs-Perss ~
Gel. Fenews's Nssnse-ee. sut They
we-is.'t-CIsrk U-ger sf Col. Fenows's
Oaes asa Clerk walsh sf the General
Sessions Tesury-Nr. fuckers FIns.
Mr.. Preble Tucker. keeper Of the newspaper
clippings for the Brownie Five, found dime on
the floor Of the court room when Col. Fellows
was undergoing the attack Of the German band
yesterday afternoon. Fulton Mcmahon, Cham
pion Thinker. and n. W. q. wellinR. Keeper Of
the Awful Socrets were In the room at the time.
The dime was lying head up three inches west
northwest OF the Clerks desk, and Mr.. Tucker
had been sitting near IL for some time before he
saw It, 1t was seen at almost the same instant
by a member OF the German band, and Mr..
Tucker and the German each reached for II.
Mr.. fuckers slender white hand went straight
as an arrow and steady ss . piston rod. The
German hand wavered and hesitated. But It
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letter officially endorsing his scheme and fac
pectus OF the book for the use OF his advertising
ami subscription agents. Nineteen thousand
dollars had been sunk before the Fire CoInmis-
siOncrs, for some reason which he could not eX-
plain, Withdrew their support.
To stop ~ thnt point meant my utter ruin.
Commissioners, meant bankruptcy. | turned
from the Pald department. 10 the Volunteer
Firemens Association and made arrangements
with them. ~ this time my solicitors began to
get into trouble with the police. They were fire.
qu-ntly arrested. aud, though always discharged
without trial the stories OF their arrest in con-
nectiun with their work for the book got into
the papers and interfered with the enterprise" I"
THINKS WILLIAMS INSPIRED ms PERSECUTION.
The witness intimuted that the molestation Of
MS agents hy the police was prompted by In
spector Williams, whom he had written up when
captain OF tho Iendtr,oin pr"cnrt. On the af-
ternnon OF Nov, Z, lhNS, he received word that
one of his agents had bren arrested in the First
precinct. Mr.. Costello went down there, and
found that Capt Mclaughlin had taken from
the agent tie facsimile endorsement OF Com
ms>i pners Or Ikcr. PurrOy. aud smith, lie had
endcavOred o. yet all these eILuTseIuenis from,
his agents but some II them lad said they had
lost thCm. - he lOaE that one explaining why 10
Capt. Mclaughlin. lie gave II 10 his hook
safe, but have il in court next day as evidence il
u should be required. lie thea went 10 Null
see friend about getting bail Tor his agent Not
meeting his fri, nj, lie walked across tu Police
Headouarters aud there ran into the arms OF
The Inspector said i want you. Costello
and said; AN right, Inspector, what for Z lie.
Mclaughlin. explained, as ! have here aud
told him the document Was Ia my safe aud
would be produced II required, He told me
To 20 with him 10 his Office. aud did So Tor 1
had had some experience with him, and did not
care TO cross him"
Mr Moss-Let US disreSs long enongh to hear
that experience.
Al went 10 the Madison square Garden one
night 10 report some affair. Mhile was strnV-
Cling To get in / met Mr.. Williams. That Was
shortly after had written the story about him
and the TendeTlon. lie grabbed me by the
throat IN very ugly manner and punched me
with the end Of his club.
UNDER ARREST AT HEADQUARTERS.
Now proceed with the evening Of Nov Z,
1855"
/" Well. Williams kept me in his once from
o'clock until midniKhL i asked him II / VA
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This Child Wa. Murdered.

An autopsy made yesterday on tho body OF .
four-weeks-old girl, which was found with .
cord drawn tightly about the neck in q coal bin
at 95 Madison street, showed that the child had
been murdered. The body was found by Wolfe
ment. week ago he had quantity OF furni-
ture stored in the empty coal bin. On Tuesday
morning when he went into the cellar he found
the door of the vault unbolted and partly open.
Fearing that some one had been stealing his
furniture, Green berg began an investigation. At
the foot OF the steps leading into the bin he
stumbled over the body of tho child. IL WAS
clothed in CHEAP pink dress and a white fan
mel hood. A cord had been drawn tightly around
the throat The police have been unable 10 dis
cover who left the child's body In the cellar
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stay 't there. ere said aid that INT must to either have mi
began to get nervous, because there was good
deal q telephoning ond ruaniing In and @ out o.
as / could see. AT midnight two detectives from
| the First precinct came and Williams said,
ley was with me and / Whispered 10 him 20
stay az close TO me as he could, a. l was uneasy
sn1 .nad my ites su ~ wsd With s ~
the elevated station, whsre the detectives or
dered him TO leave ns; When We left the e.e,
umbrella.
SAYS CAPT MLAUGHtdN STRUCK him wTTB
BRASS KNUCKLBs.
Just as we got In front Of the First precinct
station two men ped from out Of the dark
into the bright light coming out Of the entrance.
One OF them was Capt. McLsnghlin; the other
dodge but he struck me the cheek and
knocked me into the gutter, The man then
continued 70 kick me: When ] got up, at last
Offended against the law there s't S another May way
TO punish me; ! was knocked down again,
s I'm so6d by 5 Ssp to ree o
the station house. where Thought would be
protected. was in q state OF collapse, bleeding,
torn aud covered with mud. Capt Mclaughlin
assaulted mo with his fists. lie wore brass
knuckles. He had struck me several times,
some extent, and shouted at him. Mclaughlin,
stop; IL you assault me again you or will die
struck inc again my fingers would never have
left his throat until either he or was dead"
Every one In the room was listening to this
story breathlessly until Senator OConnor ex-
claimed:
What DO you mean to say that Mel Iysughlin
assaulted you with brass knuCkles Z"
The witness answered: call DIR. Jenkins;
he attended me-" Continuing. he said: NC
Laughlin clustered some more. but did not as
sault me again. He let me 40 into the toilet
room to wash OF some Of the blood from my
face. Then was ordered down stairs TO q cell
On the way down some one kicked or punched
me In the back, and | suffer from that injury
yet. When ! was put in my cell | tainted
When | recovered wrote on n sheet of my note
book, II ] am found dead | was murdered by
Capt. Mclaughlin \ hid that bloody piece Of
Q.-Wer1 you maltreated again during the
night2 A.-No. except that they would not give
me drink of water. and Capt Mclaughlin
came down and seemed TO enjoy my condition.
] tainted several times during the night. from
loss of blood and exhaustion. At 8 O'clock in
the morning The same two detectives called for
me and later was taken tO court. | was hui
Initiated beyond power Of expression at the
thought of the outrage and indgnity to
which had been subjected and at the thought
of going home to my wife and children in
that condition. | sent for Lawyer Charles T.
Dudley, and told him the circumstances.
He said, They too much for me alone; |
must have All assistant" He called in MIR.
Hummel. The cases against me and my agent
were laughed out Of court l went home and
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DUNN TO DE TRIED FOR CLUBBING.
The Policeman Arrested aad Arraigaed In
General Sessions.

Policeman Bernard Dunn OF the Charles street
police, who was one of the policemen summoned
before the Lexow committee on the day when
there was a muster OF alleged police clubbers
WAS arrested yesterday by Detective Sergeants
Reilly and Won Gcrichten on a bench warrant,
the October Grand jury having indicted him
for assaultinG Thomas Lucas of II King street
and David McCue Of III Narick street, on the
night Of sept. 30. Dunn says he went TO the
saloon OF Richard Connaughton, at Rroome and
Hudson streets to make an excise arrest. and
that he arrested Henry Curtis, the bartender.
On the way to the Charles street station
he was assaulted by Lucas and Me-
Cue. lie defended himself. and, with the
aid OF another policeman, arrested them. Lucas
and McCue were held in the jefferson Market
Police Court the next morning 10y Police Justice
NoOrls in $500 bail. to await the action OF the
Grand Jury. Dunn testified against them before
the Grand Jury, and then their testimony was
heard. The Grand Jury dismissed the complaint
against them, and indicted Dunn.
In the General Sessions yesterday before Jud ge
MARITIME, Dunn pleaded not guilty. and Judge
MARITIME fixed bail at 81 900. While his bail
bond was being prepared the court officers told
Dunn that he must 81 To the prisoners box. lie
objected and male some little resistance, but
finally went. Frederick ID. Mahoney OF 2l2
Spring street Lecame his bnnGsnIan, and he was
released.
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in dead enrnest about trying him ne will step up
and plead Fuilty. Sometimes" eetd the Judge
s Ewes oS 10 S @ aaess to another Judge
borrow case TO try. Ihis IL done throuRh tne
Col. Fellows asked: Judge, no case is ever
already pleaded guilty, Is lt1"
Hence" said the Colonel, ples. Of guilty In
calendar cases are all uneHpectedr' a.,
viii say ali csiendsfs & are made up on is.ues'
Judge Cowing took Judge Eltzseralds Rscs Rlsscs
Fitzgerald took V The stand. In answer TO the
first question Judge Fitzgerald said that IN his
part adjournments because Of lack OF cases had
o,LDo you Know OF any cause that has re-
tarded the speedy disposition Of business in your
o.-Do you think that in 1895. the judicial
Al think that the force has been able 70 dis,
pose OF what is ordinarily known as criminal
.,Q.-Which class of cases 10 tried irsti A.
Prison cases.
:. 5isntit fact that bail case. are Ions Dc.
delay. OF course. When you speak of ball cases,
will say that large number Of bail cases are
for misdemeanors. have myself advocated the
idea that cnses Of msdemean nor should be tried
by some court of inferior Jurisdiction. that such
trials in such cases That would relieve the
Court of General Sessions.
On the cross-examination Col. Fellows asked
been rs diligently prosecuted as in previous
years. Mr.. Phillips objected TO bringing In any
previous year, and Mr.. Linson said he had no
objection to the question. but that IL opened the
door to letting In evidence not material to the
issue
What desired to show" said Col Fellows,
was that the same energy has been displayed
as had been displayed by preceding District
Attorneys didn't suppose that even the gem
tlemen who have made these charges will assert
that the District Attorneys have been constantly
neglectful They reserve all that for me. How
ever, will not press the question"
The examination was concluded with the
question: Are You aware that more cases
have been disposed OF in the eleven months Of
iS0i than in any previous eleven months In the
history of the Office Z"
II was decided that the records were the bost
proof Of that,
Mr.. Phillips sald his case was closed save for
the putting in OF some records which he ex-
pected to get from the Clerk OF tho General
Sessions. The adjournment was until 1890
o'clock this morning. The Brownie Five went
away together. So did the German band. They
are still jealous OF each other, and the ten-cent
incident didn't help il any.
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Miss LuadborG discharged from Rsusyu.

Helen Lundhorg, the young Swedish woman
who WAS committed by Justice Burke. In the
Harlem Police Court on Monday, to Bellevue
Hospital for examination as TO her mental con-
diti0n, was discharged from the insane pavilion
yesterday. While the girls case puzzled the
doctors, il was decided. after an examination
yesterday morning. that her mind Was not suf-
Hcienty unbalanced 10 neCessitato her being
confined In an asylum.
She WAS released on her mothers signing n
contract u take all the responsibility which
might arise from her discharge from the hos
p.tsl. Mrs. Lundborg said that, in the future.
every effort would be made to prevent her
daughter from seeing or holding any COmmuui-
cation with Kate Newell. the h0usemald with
whom the girl seemed to be infatuated.
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TO Am GERMAN COO COOS.

Choose Between the Germs.-An nerfcs. and
tho G. g. Ciubs-Tou Csn't Belong to Both.
There is jealousy between the German-Ameri-
can Reform Union and the Goo Coos which
threatens TO develop into open warfare. The
immortal Five OF the Goo Goo crowd anticipated
the Germans In their charges against Col. Fell
lows before the Governor. Whether this is the
actuating cause or not IL is understood that tho
German-Americans propose to give notice to all
German members Of the Good Government
clubs that they must make choice between the
two organizations and abandon one or the other.
II know that such . resolution has been
drawn by Mr.. Laub OF the Twenty second As
sembly district" said Goo Goo German last
evening. II am told that IL Is Mr.. Herman Rid
der's desire that IT. be passed at the next meet
ing of the union, which will PROBABLY be held on
Friday night at Terrace Garden Mr.. Ridder
wants TO create German Tammany Hall. and
will tolerate no divided political allegiance in
the members Of his organization"
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her hait pulled out, and the Justice wouldn't
give us the warrant, but told me TO go home and
gsit two weeks and he would see what he could
TOLD JUSTICE KOCH HE WAS DRUNK.
The witness had also had an experience with
Justice Koch She testified in case In his court
mems wives swore they would not believe her
under oath. Then Justice Koch laughed At her
You'll go Before rel the eq Grand EoS T jury Sy yo viii yon
ne said. l told lin wanted those people who
prove under what cifcumsiancss ' they 'e ever Sr
found me under the shadow Of an untruth. But
he pooT OF III The 90 east S side ' With E
Judge on the bench. You're so drunk now you
Then a police ofncer with gold lace on his
any ops'', said: sYoq,d have 70 take il il you YOU
II think that will do. Miss Frenm. thank YOU"
ssid Mr.. Moss.
SAYS CAPT. HAUoHEY PUNCHED HIM
1oi West Srd Street Wns ths nsst Wines
The cafe Of his house is frequented. he said, by
epenisrds and Cubans. A number Of these were
playing dominoes one evening and some others
were playing pool when onicers Derrigan, Hsllen,
and slosne entered and began plugging and
his eyeglasses broken by punch with the end
.And IL the punch had been little higher
there would have been another glass eye. al
len began digging me. but DerrlRan made him
tables, and Hsllen took 1t all, but only gave up
four or i've dollars In court. We were taken to
the Mercer street station. There Capt. IauPhey
took me into his bedroom and asked me II I
had given any money 70 liallen. Sloane. or Der.
rfgan. said no. and he called me q vile name
end punched me in the face. lie crowded me
into little closet where he washes his hands,
and punched me until was all bleeding. When
they took me to tho desk. Haughey told an Of
hcer TO search me for knife"
The little spaniard was very much excited as
be told this story. and as he reached this point
he extended his hand and exclaimed ferccly:
sH I had had a knife he would never have
struck me like thatr'
The witness gave this explanation Of Capt.
Hsughey's treatment OF him. He said that the
premises he occupied he secured Just ahead OF
woman known as Annie Queen. lie kept re-
spectacle house. and paid nothing for protec-
hon, and Haughey was angry because he had
lost tho money Annie Queen would have given
him. Mr.. MerliDg Of 40 South Fifth avenue, of
whom he rented the house. had told him that he
had heard the .officer say this. Chairman Lex
Qw ordered this stricken out because IL was
hsarsay. which is the first hearsay testimony
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Meeting or the n. n. Church Boar4 or Eau.
cation.

The annual meeting Of the Board OF Educa-
tion OF the Methodist Episcopal Church was
held yesterday at $50 Fifth avenue. Bishop
Andrews OF this city presided. The reports OF
the treasurer and corresponding secretary
showed prosperous year. The Board has a
limited supervision over more than two hun
adeu higher institutions Of learning. with a.
school property in buildings AndS endowments
Ihe board also administers = fund In aid OF
worthy students. During the last year Il thus
aided l,b39 students in = hundred different in
stitptiOns 10 the amount OF $40, 600.
Bishop Andrews reelected PresIdent and
DR., A. S. Hunt recording Secretary.
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sIs Policemen Eligible for H.trrsmsut

4 schedule has been prepared at Police Head
quarters showing the number Of members OF the
department who will have served twenty years
ON the LIST Of January next and will be eligible
for retirement There are in all Ole men, in
Cluding the superintendent, Inspectors, 2S
Captains, 40 Sergeants. - detective Sergeants
3O7 patrOlmen, and dOOrmen.
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Ar-. MsGIs.ls HrsAEs as- L.E As.Iu.

WEST CHESTER, n. Y, Dec. 5.-Mrs. Mary Nc
Ginnis OF Unionport near this village, fell into
an excavation which had been made by the
village and broke her right leg. This was two
years ago She sued the village for $4,000
damages, and last spring the village compro-
missed BY paying her $4,000. On lAst Monday
night Mrs MeGinnis went 70 WLllismsbridge To
Sc lawyer DAVID n Hunt in his ONCE. After
down stairs, she stumbled and broke the same
leg again She was conveyed To her home IN a
carriage.
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NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND

the bad habits and
early vices Of young
men and their dis
astrous consequent
ces. Young men
and old men, those
who suffer from
nervous debility ard
exhaustion, the
wasting away of the
vital strength aud
power from hidden
drains or intemper-
ate habits can readi-
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GIsslls wmlan JoAAsoa 1. E-sI..s.

PATCHoGUE. Dec. William johnson, who
disappeared from this place some time ago with
money and personal effects Of friends. has been
heard from. Hu Is Ia England. lie has written
10 a friend that lie deeply regrets lis course and
wishes he could undo what he has done. lie
also wrote that he was IN hard luck. johnson
clerk in the suffolk county District At
toFney's onlce at the time he disappeared in
August.