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SEWARD ENDS HIS FIGHT.
he Says BE Got No Chance to Explain
Before Charges Were Preferred
Against Him.
GEN. FITZGERALD GROWS EMPHATIC.
ats Unqualihedly False" He Says, Refer
ring to Col Stewards Story Of
Conversation with Him.

The second session OF the court
martial which Is hearing the charges Of
disobedience against Col. William Sew
ard, of the Ninth Regiment, was held
last night. Testimony showing that the
official orders from Gen. Fitzgerald bad
been delivered to Col. Seward was given.
to parade his command or not, as he
saw Mt. at Van Cortlandt Park.
Col. Dennison, OF Col Stewards coun-
sci. argued that Col. Seward had prop
erly exercised his discretion. Gen. Martin
T.. McMahon, also of counsel for the de-
Tense, said the prosecution had built its
case on bubble In the word postpone.
They say Col. Seward should have
ordered out his command" he said,
land then revoked those orders. That
is merely bubble. Col. Seward post
poned the parade simply by not order
Ing out the command. 1t is the first
time In my experience that an officer
OF his rank has been put In arrest with
out giving him a chance to explain
The court went into executive session,
and in quarter of an hour announced
that the motion was denied. Col. Sew
put on the stand. He said he had re-
ceived a letter from Inspector-General
McGrath May I saying that inspection
Of the Ninth would occur about the
week you mention" This week was the
last Of May or the first of June. Gen.
McGrath's letter closed by saying that
II there were any reason for changing
that week to let him know before May
70. May % Col. Seward wrote to Cen
Mrf rn h t,,..
would all be ready about June ii or IL,
On May %, in reply to that, he received
another letter from Gen McGrath, tell
Ing him to take his own, time.
Col. Seward was asked to give the now
famous conversation with Gen. Fitz-
gerald. He could place the date of II
only as about May 20. After Gen. Fitz-
gerald had refused to excuse the regi-
witness said he had asked: "Then, Cen
eral, how. am l to interpret the dscre-
tionary clause In regard to the inspec-
Gen. Fitzgerald replied: "oh, II 1t
occurs within 9 week or two, why. you
=, I, decided odsd, to postpone the park pa;
Gen, McGraths letter. Inquired that /
would not have time between June and
June IL to get the guns ready for inspec,,
ton" The witness said that there had
Ssf on he df as oi SfstRs the as
get till June IL. He received the official
order for inspection June s.. He thought
he was acting within the discretion sug-
Col: Seward said there was no in
tention Of disobeying the order; He re-
from Gen. Fitzgerald June /. cautionins
him about ball cartridges.
When did you next hear from him7'
June 8. when I was told that charges
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NO HONEST CAPTAINS ALIVE.
30 Inspector Williams Says, and a. IN III
port He our To Know,

Heinrich schuchert, n carpenter. tes-
titled before the Lexow committee yes
terday that Inspector Williams. when
Captain Of the Oak Street Station. twenty
years ago. demanded OF him SIS down
and SIS month for the privilege OF
running a disorderly house. He refused
to pay. and was driven out OF his bust
ness. which. he claimed. was running
a respectable boarding house. Williams
was Captain OF that precinct about the
time named. About =. NJ. yesterday
the Inspector was In his office in Null
berry street. The first intimation he had
OF the accusation made against him was
when \ sergeant who had been reading
n newspaper exclaimed:
Here's something against you In
spector! Here's a fellow who says you
demanded :, money from him twenty
years ago"
"What!' circulated Williams. ''Twen-
ty years ago? That man Is a liar!'
Soon after several reporters called on
the Inspector. He was not in good
humor You can say that the only
honest captain on the force died a few
DAYS ago" he declared.
The late Police Captain wart, waa
buried Saturday last.
DO you mean it?" was asked.
Certainly / mean It," snapped the
Inspector. as he wheeled around in his
chair. The interview was ended.
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had been made and that was under

had been made and that 1 was under
did you have a chance to EXPLAIN"
mo" decidedly
Van Dhzer tried to tangle up Col.
Seward by asking him how he dhe COL
oneD could have mentioned the last
McGrath was to be notified of n change
Of date by May Is. The witness evadcd
the trap by saying that all his CORE,
spondence with the lnspector-General
date Of the final delivery of the uni
forms. The Judge-Advocate had the
stenographer read Gen. Fitzgerald's tes-
asked the Colonel il he still wished to
swear that Gen. Fitzgerald had said
that the Ninth would be excused II in
spefftion came y within within week or two.
Col. Seward was then asked why, II
Gen. McGrath in his letter told him not
to hurry, he dill not use his discretion
and thus be free to obey hey Gen, Fltzgerald's
order. This was the prosecutions strong
est card. and the foomful of military men
became very quiet The witness ala not
give categorical answer, but dwelt on
the previous postponcment of the inspoc-
ton caused by the delay In uniforms and
his belief that the date set In the letter
Of May % was final. 1t was a skilful
answer. ana the audience wanted to APP
plaud.
Gen Fitzgerald In citizens dress. who
had been prompting the Judge Advocate
during the evening, was called to the
stand. Asked IL the conversation quoted
by Col. Seward had taken place; he said
mo. It is unqualinedly false"
Col. Dennison and Gen. Mcmahon
spoke briefly for Col. Seward The
former attacked the validity of the
Van. Cortlandt Park orders and Gen.
Mcmahon suggested that the Court
should call down" Gen. Fitzgerald for
presenting the charges. Major Van
Duzer summed UP for the prosecution
and the case then went to the Court
The decision will not be known for
some DAYS
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SMALL BOYS FOOL WITH A BOMB.
1t Goss Of, as They Expected, but Four Of
Them Had to Be Sewed Up by an
Ambulance Surgeon.

There was big demonstration by the
anti-Tammany Association of the Sixth
Ward in Irving Hail. Nos. 2l2. PA and
PIG Broome street. last Monday night
One of the features Of the occasion was
n fireworks display. Bombs consisting
OF tin boxes filled with green fire were
shot into the air from mortar They
exploded far UP with the report of n
cannon.
1t happened that one of the bombs
didn't explode. 1t fell on the roof OF the
flve-story tenement-house No. 60 Nor
folk street. where twelve-year-old Jacob
Aparto found 1t on Wednesday. Jacob
carried his treasure around until last
night. when he called about n dozen of
his young playmates around him and
exhibited the prize. 1t was resolved to
touch her Off right there.
Jacob prled off the rim of the little
circular fox. To secure louder report
n large coffee cup was placed inverted
over the bomb.
While Jacob lit n match his friends
stood foul deep with their faces bent
forward. He touched the flame to the
powder, and In an instant there was a
aron mat hs coffee hs snp
blown into fragments which shot up
ward and diagonallY all around, while
the canister SCARED far into the air
he bOSs were hHoChel OH tntlT lttt
like ninepins. The shock was so violent
that it shook three-month-old baby
out of the arms of n man on the side
walk. Howls OF pain arose from the
heap OF youngsters who lay torn and
bleeding. with their clothing shot off.
The street was blocked in no time.
Policeman Aschlinger rushed to the
Eldridge Street Station and sent in an
ambulance call to Gouverneur Hospital.
The surgeon found four boys rendered
unfit for further celebrating. They
were Isaac Harris, eight years old. OF
No. 10 Norfolk street, who had a LAGER
ated wound Of the left leg: Abraham
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2ntmateS that He Will Not Return to
Nov York Until After the
| Coming Election.
IS STRIVING TO KEEP OUT OF SIGHT.
1Gcvss Btsalthily from Place to Plaoe, Dodg
Ing People, Covering Up His Tracks
as Well % He Can.
copyright, 1884, by the Press Publishing Company,
New York WORLDLY

New York World.)
Especial Cable Despatch to The WORLDLY
KILLARNEY. Ireland. June 22.-Rich-
ard Croker arrived here tonight by a
late train. He says he will remain sew
eral days.
He has read the latest files of the
New York newspapers, expressing unan-
imously the opinion that he has fled to
Europe to escape being summoned be-
fore the Lexow investigating committee.
but he declines absolutely to make any
statement in reply.
From here he will go to the home of
his family in Blackrock.
He intimates that he will not return
10 New York until after the election.
Mr.. Croker has asserted that he would
return to New York as soon as the
Lexow committee should signify a wish
to have him do so. Yet, from the mo-
ment reporters met him on the steam
ship Umbria at Queenstown. he appar-
emily has exerted himself to the ut
most to escape observation, to battle
inquiry and to conceal his whereabouts.
On landing from the Umbria at Liver
,ocol he managed to elpde notice by not
taking the regular ships special train to
London. When he returned from Paris
to London. after only ten-hours' stop
In the French capital, he kept himself
carefully secluded. On departing from
his London hotel he left word that he
was going directly to Killarney.
A bulky package of letters and news
PAPERS has been awaiting him here since
the Goth.
He arrived with his two sons at the
Gresham Hotel, Dublin, on Wednesday
afternoon. They had only one room, and
remained there all the evening, receiving
no visitors. They walked out for only
an hour on Thursday, visiting no place
OF public interest.
When Mr.. Croker and his sons stepped
OF the train this evening to the platform
At the railway station here The World
correspondent was waiting to convey
,by cable to the people OF America in
general and OF New York in particular
! any message Mr.. Croker might desire
20 send. But the ex-boss resolutely de-
iciined to say anything which might
4 be construed as an interview or which
might seem to imply that the American
reader would take any interest In his
views. He did venture to observe.
though, that he never witnessed a more
lnteresting exhibition on a race course
Than the contest for the Grand Prix
last Sunday at Paris.
| A reporter for the Cork Herald sought
% loosen Mr.. Croker's tongue with a
Attic barney.
you are a gentleman" said the re-
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Mrs o'Dowd-Higgins agrees to live u
the State and keep the two children
and the father. husband No. 2, II to see
them at any time.
Patrick o'Dowd. husband No 1, APP
peared a short time ago, after deserving
his wife in England twenty-seven years
ago. Then she married. Higgins. suppos-
Ing O'Dowd was dead. She has been
Mrs. Higgins thirteen years. f
O'Dowd, II is said, intends to go back
West sell his property and return East
to live In the house from which husband
No. 2 har taken his departure.
Mr.. Higgins does not seem to worry
over the woman much, but he IN duftb
downhea.'ted over leaving the home that
he helped to get. 1t Is In the name Of
Mrs. O'Dowd-Higgins. 1t Is worth about
1880. Y
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porter, "in whom the readers OF the Cork
Herald take a good deal of interest. We
here like to know all we can Of success
full Irish Americans. and / need hardly
say our interest becomes all the greater
when, as IN your case, that 1rish-Ameri-
can comes from Cork. Under these cir
cumstances, have been requested by my
editor to ask you IL you will be good
enough to favor me with your opinions
on the present condition Of American
politics and the probabilities OF the fu-
ture, more especially as to the outcome
OF the tariff fight and Of the war against
Tammany."
II have nothing to say" CURLY replied
Mr.. Croker. taking a fresh grip on his
travelling bags and stalking out of the
station.
Then he was surrounded by a horde of
bus drivers and hotel touts, clamoring
for his patronage. He was looking for
his hotel, but did not evince that talent
for taking his bearings which in a man
of his character one would expect to be
n conspicuous trait Even when he was
rescued from the crowd by the Cork
Herald reporter he was still taciturnity
Itself. though he condescended to let the
Corkonian walk with him to his hotel,
few yards away.
I'VE would be very happy" the Irish
reporter persisted, TO learn anything
you would be pleased 80 tells us of the
prospects Of the Democrats in the next
campaign. And, then, there is your own
personality. IL you care to tell us any
thing OF that"
'Im out OF politics." said Mr.. Croker,
grufiiy, "and have nothing to say"
us II not a fine cay, Mr.. CrokerT In
quired the young man from Cork, in
desperation.
A surly nod was the only answer.
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Harris. ten years old. Of No. 70 Norfolk
street. who had received bad cuts on
Weinrich. ten years old, Of No. 70 Nor
folk street, who had deep wound over
the right eye. and Israel phllinson. nine
had beer bored with a piece OF the crock.
cry In the lief, forearm, while another
fragment carried away his right trou-
sers lex and ripped open his thigh for
several inches. The surgeon sewed up
tho wounds of each victim and they were
taken home. The police are looking for
little Jacob. He kept away from home
last night,
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Obituary Notes.

Ex- Congressman John +. Dezendori died at
Norfolk. Va, yesterday, after an illness Of
several weeks.
John $. Young. we'll known Democratic
politician and an ex- Justice of the Peace, died
at his home in Richmond. q. L., yesterday.
Mr; Young was born in England in 1918 and
mad lived on Staten Island since 1882. He
was twice elected a Justice of the Peace ana
had for eighteen years been q school trustee.
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MISS WILLARD'S TOUR.
She Tells About the Temperance
Trip Around the World,

Miss Frances Willard has told Sun
day World" reporter an interesting
story about the temperance trip she will
shortly undertake with large party.
for the purpose OF visiting all the kings
u the earth.
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CHOOSES HER FIRST LOVE
Higgins Takes S75 and His Personal Prop.
erty, and His Wife Joins o'Dowd.

Especial to The WORLDLY
BLOOMFIELD, June 22.-The O'Dowd-
Higgins affair in this town was settled
to-day by John Higgins. husband No.
2, accepting S75 from Mrs. O'Dowd- Hig-
gins, and taking his personal property.
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For entertaining gossip of the
turf, the ball field ana the ring
read the O'Clock Edition aud the
Sporting Extra of Tho Evening
World.
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AN ESCAPE

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Mr.. ]. p. McApAMA
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various proposals that have been sub
mitted.
There is little fear that the light will
be extinGulshcd after the Goth inst The
Lighthouse Board does not object to
the maintenance Of the light, so there
Is no objection from this source to over
come.
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They will try to induce the Ahkoond
OF Swat to cease dallylng with the
punch-bowl, and substitute American
circus lemonade or milk-shake. They
may introduce the soda water fountain
into Lobengula's country.
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The Indianapolis journal., 1894-04-25
BURROWS'SN NEW TRIAL
Supreme Court Gives the Young
College Boy Another Chance.
Evidence Did Not Show the Stolen Check
Was of Value-Liabilities
of Counties.

The Supreme Court has granted Ward
Burrows a trial. Burrows is the
young man now in the Northern prison
serving a two-year sentence for the al
legged larceny of a check for $50 from a
student OF Wabash College. Arthur Piser.
who was his companion in all sorts of dis
spation in and around Charlottesville. A
history of the trouble appeared in the
Journal last Saturday, the case having been
argued orally in the Supreme Court the
previous day.
The opinion, which was written by Judge
Daley, was handed down yesterday, and
reverses the Montgomery Circuits finding
and orders new trial. 1t holds that the
fifth instruction of the judge of that court
TO the jury in this case was altogether err
roneous. This instruction was as follows:
"A check drawn on bank when the draw
er has money on deposit as much or more
than sufficient to pay the check is pre-
sumptivey of some value in the hands of
the person in whose favor it is drawn"
The Supreme Court says that ii has long
been an established rule of the courts that
without proof of the value of stolen prop
erty there can be no conviction for lar
ceny; that it is essential to prove the value
of the property alleged to have been stolen,
In Oruer 10 determine lne STdue OI the Ol-
fense and the penalty to be imposed, and
that in the absence of any evidence upon
the subject of such value, the court or
jury could not indulge in presumptions to
supply the omission. The goods need not
be proved to be of the value charged in the
indictment, but 1t must be shown that they
are of some value.
I'm our opinion" continues the court,
further along, "in the giving Of this in
struction the court usurped the functions
of the jury and took away from them the
question of value. which it was their prov
ince alone to determine. In criminal cases
the Jury are the exclusive judges of the
facts proven and of all differences to be
drawn therefrom." The court held that on
the trial of the cause 1t became a material
question whether the check in controversy,
payable to order out Of the possession of
the payee, and without his Endorsement
thereon, was of any value. The erroneous
instruction, in effect, told the jury to ig-
more the testimony of the witnesses as to
value, for the reason already indicated,
that a value was to be presumed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-04-25
COURTS CANNOT WAIT.
Judge Baker Decides the SnOw-BlOck-
ade Case.

Judge Baker yesterday decided the West
ern Union Telegraph Company's motion for
leave to docket in the federal court the
case brought against that corporation in
the Lake Circuit Court by Hester ]. Dough
erty, of Crown Point. This suit was for
damages for alleged failure to deliver
message and the attorneys for the de-
fense Messrs. Agnew and Kelly, of Val
paraiso, failed to file their answer within
the prescribed time, and were ruled out by
the Judge The reason for the failure was
a snow blockade on the railroad over which
Judge Agnew was travelling from Valpa-
raiso to Crown Point, which prevented the
attorney from reaching the latter point
within the time prescribed for ming the
answer, though he had started in presuma-
bly, ample time. The lower court denied
petition for removal to the federal court,
and Judge Baker also refused it, saying
that in his judgment an infieXible rule or
law determined the time within which an
application to remove must be made and
the court possesses no discretionary power
to enlarge ii. This construction of the
statute the Judge says. may at times op-
defeat it's plain language and manifest in
tent.
I'm nv opinion" says the Judge, "the
failure to start for the place where the
answer was due was such an act of negli-
gence as to defeat the right of removal,
without regard to the delay occaSioned by
the storm. l do not wish, however, to dis
pose of the motion on this ground. 1t is
firmly settled that the time within which
the removal may be had cannot be enlarged
by continuances, demurrers etc This doc
trine rests upon the solid foundation that
the statute Is mandatory and that the right
Of removal ceases to exist when the time
limited therefor has elapsed
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-04-25
Frey Comes To-day.

The committee on arrangement for enter
tanning General Frey's army was formally
organized last evening. ID. +. Kennedy
was elected president and Mrs. c. Vincent
secretary. c. A. Johnson. who had been
acting as treasurer resigned, and Albert
Krull was elected to fill the place. C. A.
Johnson, Lucius Stockwell and f. b. Cum
mings were elected as a reception commit
tee TO entertain the General while here.
Free headquarters have bsen offered anc
accepted for Frey's staff In a downtown
hotel. The hustling committee reported do
nations OF meats from the Kingan com
pany, beans and coffee from Mrs. Sever.
ence. rolled oats, Goldfish. potatoes, soaps.
blankets and wearing apparel from various
parties The committee VIII begin in earn
est tomorrow. and Will receive any dona
tions offered at III North Alabama stree
or at 40 West Market street General Ere
will be here sometime this forenoon. bu
the army will not arrive till evening. =
meeting will be held in the Criminal Cour'
room this evening, and Hon. Franklin Ian
ders. Professor Vincent and General Ere.
will speak.
The Indianapolis journal., 1894-04-25

third base, George Pinkney. formerly of
the Brooklyn National League team: snort
stop, Wheelock. an old League player; out
fielders, Wright Bailey and Riley: This
team has been playing great ball in the
exhibition games. The Hoosiers will be
represented by their regular team, with
probably Phillips and lWestlake in the
points.
To-day's game will be called promptly
at $3.50 clock. The street railway company
will run special baseball trains directly
to the entrance to the ball park, leaving
the corner of Illinois and Washington
streets promptly at 2:37, 2:47, 2:57, 3f, 3:l7
and 1927 u. m. The trains will remain on
the ''Y'' East Ohio street until the
game is over, taking on the passengers
for the return trip at the exit from the
grounds.
A number of box parties have been ar
ranged for the opening game to-day. La
dies will be admitted to the grounds and
grandstand for half rates, rs cents. Should
the weather be at all fair there promises
to be large crowd The grandstand has
been filled with new chairs. and additions
have been made to the "bleachers." The
game will be played without fail unless
there is a very heavy ram after IL has
begun. The grounds which were rolled
yesterday, are in excellent shape.