New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

James Gully. head trackman en- the Ninth-ave
elevated railroad. killed early yesterday morn
ing in most shocking manner on the structure be-
tween Forty-hrst and Forty-second SITS. Pieces
OF his body were found strewn a.ong the track iof
nearly block. II s not known what train killeh
him. The accident probably occurred about :
o'clock Cully's face was cut of from MS h"ah
and fell through 10 the street There II lay risht
side up in the A fireman who passed by saw
the features and supposed they belonged to n
drunken man who had lain down and been covered
by the snow. He stopped down and touched tho
face and then made tho CHASTITY discovery. lie
wrapped the face in a newspaper and took II TO the
West Thrty-seventh-st- police station. There the
rest OF the body. which had been picked nr on the
track had been taken. and the whole was Ia'er
carried TO the Morgue The accident was alSc n,
with Gully early in the morning rhSy were Prol
ably only few feet apart when Gully was Kinch
years old and lived at No. l2' West Twenty-sixth-
ST with his mother and three sisters
The trial OF Charles II. Knoohe. OF No. ls22 Sec
ond-ave on a charge OF passing worthless checks
was continued yesterday before Recorder Con, In
Part l. General Sessions Knoche IL siXty-one
wears old Tho specific complaint Is that he passed
a uorthIess check for SIS Henry Meyer. Of No. 6
Coenties Slip. The check was made payable TO
Behrens e. Co. Stone-st, one OF inc hrfns manpIi-
lated by the Mciaughlin-N aiehthe sh heb ,eef
legged swinders and forgers Inc check n nse.'
looked much like some OF the worthless ones loa.-
ed by the Valentine gang. Inc case VIII ~ o'' W.
day.
The Grand Jury yesterday indicted for grand lar
cenv and forgery in the third degree Daniel VIVA
len the cashier Of tho old Excise Board Whaien
was arrested several months ago and admitted TO
hail He is charged with pprolriat'hg ti'e l"',uS
Of the Excise BOARD while casnier s i ,o have
turned about S,OU Ihe totai ainou''' S''' " ''
been taken was 5000.
Henry r Basford, an ole man. who conducts two
boarding. houses in Brooklyn. and Edward Tomp-
ttns a former detective were yesterday convicted
q, r. criminal branch OF the United States Court
OF circulating counterfeit CONS.
Charged with having cleverly swndied many
p. wnbrokers in this city. Brooklyn and other Cities
,wo nr,soners were arrsigne6 yesterday afternoon
hoeore Magistrate Flammer. In the Centre street
Police Court and remanded for further eAdii"'
tim to-day Tine prisoners were George "i'o"'
twenty-nine years old. who gave MS "ouieH' "
phuado,hla and John Palmer twenty-sx years
old who said he was jeweller ana hVea a. w.
on r.et feminist They were arrested on iuesu"s
.n,ng nv Detectives Reap Holland. Berkeley anu
Arfh.n who had been looking Tor thein loi so'I''
Zinc r Simpson, pawnbroker at NO no ho"
erv has recently been swindlec out OF co"S"e'"
49, II is alleged that the men have been op,
,sc in This city and BROOKLYN TOT seV 80
month"; bns il was Ss mot % Was s%pson
me noced that number of wadches w6cn d hs
Iau 20 no the same were being pieoBeo ~ ,'
peared TO vc seemed to be Of excellent make ana
SHOP ~ 14-carat gold. The men p,eoglns
~ I'D no trouble In securing Iohns. .,,o
tns n manager for Simpson. learned apo"s W.
Aua E. 90 that "A man had been pIassi"s a' ",v
wev,nn swindled several pawnDrohers ny ~. Ii q,
nay sr,;tation gold watches An eAa,,'" hnn.d
WI" rn,nhes in Simpsons eslhbs hnsit Sa 49,
IN. inc, those pledced there as eod weIe p xd I'D
tnd i,,ta yai,,e The police were thth III "'
OF n mrssSav night arrested Palmer ana Wsod' IT.
maa then learned that the nle' WIZ WIN
"",her cities for the sane one"ce'
.,ousn describing herself as Laura Haru"''"
q -. wears old, and giving her address as Iiono-
W. as arraigned In the Jefferson Market Ponce
49,, yesterday on the charge OF shophithg. one
oo"'' rested in Hearns drygoods store IN four-
49,, Tuesday evening. The police enoeavo,cn
the prisoners identity but II was Ia
70 KEEP ,hrough her brother. John Hazleton on OF
Isai -, ~ polo players at Hammersleins Ciynpia
the tes ga Lillian Haxleon- Her father Liarencs
that s was killed last summer by peink hnoc *,
IL b,cycle at Broadway and sixty la
from NJ Nor guilt and was held IN sW pan TOT
gi[i t C1 hearing tomorrow
,.r supposed to be John Hall was instantly
- ahou, o'clock last evening In the basement
~ ms Third ave. by receiving shock from an
o. ~ wire The building Is occupied by
e.r,. Rros. saIoonkeepers Soon after O'Clock
La" .,.r,ne when the electric current was turned
ovsr the wires which run into the saloon from
or LIN, Of the Madison Square Light Company q