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WAKENED BY MASKED MEN.
HUSBAND BOUND AND GAGGED
AND VIE SHOT.
BurEiars Enter the House or George Saith In
ChurchViiic. DrnE Him from Bed, Place n
GnE in fis Mouth. and Rob Him or 81. SEQ
His wife shot In the Head ana MAY Die.

BurEtara Enter the House OF George Saith In
ChurchV,ilc. DenE Him from Bed, Place n
GnE In Hnis Mouth. and Rob Him or 81. SEQ
His wife shot In the Head and May Die.
ROCHESTER. Sept. 9.-At 3 o'clock this morn
ing the Rev. J. Henderson,. pastor OF the Com
eresational church in Churchville, a village If
teen miles west of this city. was aroused by ro-
peated rings of his door.boll. On going to the
door he was met by a Miss New, who has been
acting as nurse in the family of George Smith,
a retired hotel keeper in the village. who inn
plored him to hurry over to the house, as Mr..
Smith was very i'll. Mr.. Henderson dressed as
quickly as he could and started for the Smith
residence. On the way he mt DIR.
Van Horn, who accom- panied him. BEFORE they
reached the Smith house Miss New, who had In
the meantime returned, rushed out into the
street shrieEing "Murder!" The pastor and the
doctor entered the house. and found Mr.. Smith
bound and gagged on the dining room floor.
His feet were tied to a leg OF the table. In the
next room Mrs. Smith was discovered lying on
the bed unconscious. Her face was q mass Of
bruises, evidently made with a club or the butt
end OF a revolver, and u closer investigation
showed that she had been shot, the bullet pass
ing into her right car.
Mr.. Smith, as soon as he was released, told
his visitors that he was awakened from a sound
sleep by two masked men. who pulled him out
OF bed and dragged him through the door into
the dining room. lie fought as well as he could,
but was felled to the floor by either the butts
of a revolver or some other weapon. and a gag
put into his mouth. Ono Of the men then
went to the bedroom where his wife lay. still
sleeping, and the next moment he heard a shot.
The man soon returned and helped to fasten his
legs TO tho table and tied the gag moro securely.
Then they rose and each held a revolver to the
side OF his head.
"wo will give you Just one minute to toll M
where your money is or you arc q dead man."
they said.
Smith told the men where his money was con-
cealed in q cigar box In the bureau in his room.
This they found, and after emptyinR 1t Of its
contents, about 81 500. they left, climbing out
through tho dining room window. Tho next
heard wero sounds of = wagon driving rapidly
to the south. No bodily injury was sustained
by Mr.. Smith. Mrs. Smith did not faro 30 we'll.
however, and the doctors say that abe cannob
live. Her ante nortem tatement has been
taken.
Two deputy sherihs were despatched to
Churchvine this morning, and they were Joined
this afternoon by Assistant District Attorney
Widener. No arrests have yet been made The
blows received by Mrs. Smith, the doctors say,
were dealt by some blunt instrument, probably
q sandbaR,
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BnANDrNo OF PBnoN-MADE GOODS.
ne law RasutrinE Ht Declared Uncesstitu-
tienai hy the Appellate Court.

SARATOGA, Sept. Ca decision was handed
down yesterday by the Appellate Division of
the Supreme Court involving the question as to
the right to sell convict-msde goods within the
State OF New York which are not branded or
labelled with the word convict made" and
the name OF the penitentiary or prison. together
with the year when the same was made.
By a law Of the State, passed in 1896. all con.
vict-made goods are required to be 80 branded
or marked before being exposed for sale, and
any person having in his possession for the pur.
pose of sale, or offering for sale, any convict
made goods not so branded or labelled. is de-
clarcd guilty OF a m~isdcameanor. punishable
by a fine not exceeding 81 900 or by imprison.
nent not exceeding one year.
Thomas Hawkins was indicted for selling con.
vict.made goods not so marked or labelled. A
demurrer was intnrrosed to the indictment on
the ground that liza wilkins had the right 10 sell
such goods. Notwithstanding the provisions
Of the act. The demurrer was argued before
Justice George F Lyon of Binghamton, who
sustained it. deciding that the act under which
Hawkins was indicted was unconstitutional
and that the Legislature had not the power TO
pass a law " that kind. An appeal was taken
ard that decision has just been unanimously
affirmed by the Appellate Division of the Su
preme Court, An appeal will undoubtedly he
taken to the Court of Appeals and from there
to the Supreme Court OF the United States
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MRS. WHITM4N,S ASSAnANr.
Hevnrh Psiice Capture q Negro Answering {
Description OF the Ono who Assaulted Her

Howarh Police Capture q NeGro Answering the
Description or the Ono who Assaulted Her.
Detective James Donovan OF Newark went to
Irvington. n. J., Yesterday afternoon and ar
rested q negro who has been in hiding there for
several days. The Newark police learned from
Q citizen OF Irvington that the negro was tho
a~ssailant OF Mrs. Elsie Whitman. who was way.
laid in the woods In Bloomfield township on
Friday Of last week. The negro dts the descrip-
ton given BY Mrs. Whitman and others who
saw her assatlant.
He was living on New street, Irvington, with
Mary Jane Mills, q young colored woman. Don.
ovan and another otlcer went TO the house and
arrested him: He was taken to Police Head.
quarters In Newark and locked up under tho
nAme Of James W. Allen. He said he was 70
years old. He wore a dark suit and said that he
had no other clothes. but tho police went to tho
house and found q gray suit and . light hat
answering the description OF the clothing worn
by Mrs Whitman 8 assAilaIt
Capt McNanus sent for one OF the two women
who saw the negro who assaulted Mrs. Whit.
man, and abe identified Allon as the man she
saw lettering near the little bridge on Friday.
he viii DO taken to Mrs. Whitman's home this
morning. Tho prisoner refused to talk last
niRht-
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ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.
Changes In the stations and Date. or Omccr-
Col. BARRIERS Leave Extended.

Changes In the stations ana Quite. or Omccrp-
Col. Hnrbrr'- Leave Extended.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 9.-These naval orders
have been issued:
Paymaster J. p. Redneli has been ordered to League
Island: Passed Assistant Engineer o. W. Rooster de-
tached from the Richmond and ordered to the
Rodgers; Pay Inspector W. w. woodmii detached
from League Island and ordered as paymaster OF tho
neet in reserve there.
These army orders have been issued:
Capt, Walter l.. FiSke. Corps of Engineers, will re-
port Nov. Is to Col. Charles II. Suter. Corps OF Ensi.
neers. President OF the Examining Board appointed to
meet at San Francisco. for examination for promotion.
First Lieut., Richard C. Croxton. First Infantry, will
proceed to Richmond. Va and report to the Governor
for duty with the volunteers OF that state.
Major James Chester, Third Artillery. will be re
leved from duty at Fort Candy, Washington. and will
repair to Washington. where no is authorized to
Nv ait retirement.
FiutL Lieut.. James NJ. Kennedy. Assistant Surgeon.
viii be relieved from duty at Fort Missouta, Mont,
and viii report to the commanding omcer. Fort
Warrington. MARYLAND. for duty at that post.
Capt. Junius |. Powell. Assistant surgeon. viii, re-
port to Major Alfred c Glrsri. President of the Ell.
amininS Board appointed At Denver. for examination
as TO hi. ntness for prom3t,on
win proceed Ia the Sandy Hook prov ne grounds on
oncisi business perte'nins to proof nrinS of twelve
Leave granted Col. Mcrr,tt Barber. Assistant AdIu.
tant.ueneral. Is extended twenty days.
Capt. stephen Y. Ssyburn. Tentl infantry. will re-
pair TO this city and report To the Adlutant General
Of the army for duty in tn war record ONCE.
Leave granted Capt. Augustus c. Msconb. Fifth
Cav airy. 10 extended one month.
The following changes in the stationa and duties Of
ON sE Of the S~a,rts5masser,s p.ps5tmsnt are
ouartermaster,w win be relieved from duty In charge
or the confirmation OF public building At piA,ssDTrs
city and report for Assignment to duty Capt. Crosby
p. Miller. Assistant Quarterma ster. will be relieved
from duty in the once OF the ouArternlaster- General
Of the Army. and viii proceed to Fort Monroe for as
Ggnment 10 duty.
Capt, Charles Mcclure. Eighteenth Infantry. will
repair to this city and report TO the Judge Advocate
General OF the army for special duty In his ONES.
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EXPERTS IN THE LUETe CASE
restiuseuy as TO the Analysis or the solution in
the anusnEe Vat,

the sausage Vat.
CHICAGO, Sept. s.-To convict Luetgert Of the
murder OF his wife 1t is necessary for tho prose-
cution to establish a corpus deficit, ana tho
main testimony Of the trial to-day was furnished
to that end. The testimony WAS given by
Charles B. Gibson and Mark Delafontaine,
chemical experts, who told OF their analyses OF
the solution taken from the sausage factory vat
and OF the ashes frou, the boiler furnace. in
which pieces of bone, some fragments Of corset
etssls. and q hairpin were found.
II. F. Kruger. a drug gist, corrooorated Watch.
man Bialk's testimony about going on two
errsnds for LuetSert on the night OF May /, and
John Bialk told about being hidden under his
fathers bed and listening to LuetEert uttor sup
posedly discriminating words in talking with the
slider Bialk- Chemist Gibson. on cross-e1amins-
ron, said he found traces OF flesh In tho solution
from the vat, but would not say that 1t was
human hesh. and admitted that IL was practically
impossible to distinguish human flesh in such
circumstances from that OF any warIn-blooded
animal. even with u microscope.
Prof. Delafontaine is one OF the States big
runs He swore that he found traces Of desh
and blood In the mixture which he analysed
and pieces Of bones resembling those from an
arm or leg OF a human being. His testimony was
decidedly technical, and the direct examination
was not completed when court adjourned.
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WARRINGTON. Sept a.-SecretAry Sherman to-
day certified to the designation OF George NJ.
Pullman. Miss Clara Barton. aud Julian h. Hub
bell as representatives OF tho United States at
the International Congress OF tho Red Cross,
which assemblies in Vienna on tho 2oth inst.
The Congress will last ten days. The delegates
leave at once for Europe.
The state department has been advised OF the
establishment OF quite = colony OF Americans In
and making the country their homes. The GOV.
ernor of the colony IS Offering Inducements TO
Americans to reside there. and has SGT aside a
largo tract OF land for their use. The natives
seem disposed to do everything to make the col
ony "A success.
The President has appointed John E. Burchell
Vice. Consul at Sidney. Nova Scotia.
Tho new torpedo boat Rodgers. which has
failed on two previous trials. will have her
third test Saturday over the twenty. milo course
In Chesapeake bay.
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Shot b1alA.Yenr.Old ne1.

WHITE PLAINS. Sept. 9.-Mrs. William Muir
ply. IS years old, a resident OF White Plains
Park on the New York Post road. White Plains.
was shot this afternoon by Floyd Finch. IA
years old. Tho lad says that he fired a gun con-
tanning No. 6 shot at Mrs. Murphy's dog while
abe was setting the dog upon him and his com.
dents OF Vivian Heights. One OF the shot lodged
in Mrs. Murphy's breast, another in her arm.
and another in her hand. Dir. ZachHrie 81 >
that the wounds are not serious. The boys were
arrested. Mrs. Murphy AYERS thay they were
impudent and called at her place on Monday
and acted in a suspicious manner. She says
Finch deliberately shot at her when she ordered
him away. Each of the boys had a shotgun.
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cANADA,s CONCESSION.
Remits Duties on Material TO Re Used In BuiIa-
ing the Internationa Bridge.

WARRINGTON. Sept. e.-The State Depart
ment has been informed that the Privy Chan.
cellor OF the Dominion Of Canada has decided to
remit the customs duties on iron, steel. and
other materials to be used In the construction OF
the lnternational bridge over the st. Lawrence
River between Hogansburs. y. Y. and Corn
wall. Ontario. and that 30 per cent OF tho
duties on tho tools and machinery used in build
ing the bridge will be refunded when they are
again taken out OF the country.
The Canadian authorities ask that like con.
cessions be made by the customs department Of
this Government, but as our customs authori-
ties are without power to remit duties under
these circumstance. the request was denied.
1t is probable, however, that, following the
precedent established when the Niagara bridge
was built. the Treasury Department will allow
the free importation or tho material used in con-
structing the Hogansburg bridge up to tho
American shore, and will permit tho importA-
ton in bond OF tools and machinery.
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Salaries or Laser.rs Increased.

w~AsH1NsroS. Sept. s.-The salaries of seventy.
three laborers in the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing were to-day increased from $40 to
5000 per year. This was done on the recon-.
mendation OF Assistant Secretary vanderlip OF
tho Treasury Department, who has been con,
Quoting an investigation of the working OF the
Bureau and was convinced that tho pay was
not sufficient for tho work. This increase In
tho expense account OF tho bureau Is more thar
Offset BY economies in other directions.
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Il FLAT JANIroR HANGS HIMsELR
He Couldn't Wake the Tenants Keep Ashes
and Garbage Separate.

He Couldn't Wake tho Tenants Keep Ashe0
and Garbage Separate.
John Rosenlicht, a tailor, who used to have Q
shop at 400 West 145th street, hanged himself
in a vacant fiat at 3o4 West l45th street some
time during Wednesday night He failed In
business about a year ago. and took the j~anitor.
ship OF the fat in which he committed suicide.
He lived on the first floor. which rented foR
$50 monthly, and was allowed Sl2 per month on
the rent for his work. He had been unable to
pay the difference for two months.
Tenants say he neglected his work as janitor.
and he quarrelled with the garbage gatherer
because OF the mixture OF garbage. paper. and
ashes In the same reccptaclcs, until the Street
Cleaning Department men refused to carry the
stuff away. The tenants complained to tho
landlord. and Mrs. RosenliCbt Quarrelled with
her husband for not trying harder to keep q roof
over their heads.
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Vound Dead IN His hath ruh

st. LOUIS, No.. Sept. 9.-James X. Hamlin. .
grain broker on the Merchants Exchange, was
found dead in II hath tub at the Terminal Hotel
this morning. Tie doctors attributed death to
heart disease. hut the Coroner declined to issue
a death certificate until an inquest was held.
The COroncr's jury held that death was due to
natural causes. HHmlin was well known among
bro. rrs. For six years he Was tho representa-
tie OF schwartz, d poe & Co. Of Chicago. He
figured IN Il sensational scene AT his home a year
go, whom Joseph Davidson, a memNur of the
Mrrchlnts' Exchange. FORGET him % pay q debt
OF $40 at the point Of IA pistol.
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The Justice q the Peaee Who Married Then
Leaves Town to Rscape = Mss.

CuBA, N. Y. Sept. s.-1ndisnation was
aroused In this town yesterday BY the An
nouncement OF tho marriage OF Fred Gre
ham, . very black negro, to Myrtle soule, 9
white girl Graham Ii 20 years Of age and 70
pulsive LOOKING. and. owing to being run over
about Q year ago, has but one leg. Tho young
woman L. good looking and Is OF . good family.
Her parents arc dead The couple were mar
r1sd By John Straight . Justice of the Peace.
on Tuesday. Last night an indign alton meet.
ing was held In the street in front Of tho Pos:
Once. At the close OF the meeting public feel.
ing reached such 9 pitch that about 100 men
and boys went TO the house OF the Justice with
b large pail Of steaming tar and a big supply OF
feathers to apply TO him. The crowd broke IN
the front door and went through the house, but
were unable TO find the Justice. He had al
ready escaped through q rear door. 1t was
only through tho influence OF the moro con
servAfivs that the mob were prevented from de
molishing the house, so trenz;ed were they a;
finding that he had escaped. Miss Soule has
. good reputation, and no reason Is given foi
her strange act
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THIETES At MON7OLAIR.
They Make Good HnuIs at MONDAY and In {
Early Morning.
Prince and Broadway.
" Rrren and broadway
Thirty-second and broadway.

They Make Good Hnuis ut MONDAY and In the
EARLY Morning.
MoNTcLA1R, Sept. "a thief entered the Cole
building here between ~ and l o'clock to-day
and went through the several stories not with
out profit. The trained nurses apartments on
tho top floor were broken into. and trinkets and
clothing carried OF to the value OF 500. From
tho offices OF the East Jersey Water Company.
on the second floor. $3.50 worth OF surveying in
struments were stolen. The apartment of p. II.
Hubert yielded wearing apparel to the value
OF $50.
burglars carried OF 300 worth Of carpet
from the residence of william P. Atkins on
Orange road early this morning. The house
was closed owing to the absence of the family at
Atlantic Highlands. The silver and other valu-
ablcs were placed in bank vaults before the fam.
ily's departure.
The police have no clues to the thieves.
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SUICIDE OF A BARTENDER.
Tho Medicine Warranted to euro Him Prove
to He n Pistol shot

Tho Medicine Warranted to Cure Him Proved
to lie n Pistol shot
James McAdams, a bartender. who shot him
self IN the temple at his home at 326 West
Seventeenth street on Wednesday afternoon,
died yesterday morning in New York Hospital.
McAdams. who had been i'll for some time. had
been drinking heavily. 1t is said. He returned
home on Wednesday afternoon with q small
package in his hands. His wife. who was pre-
pairing supper. noticed that he was nervous.
" What have you got in the package, Jim3"
she asked.
Oh. some medicine l bought to-day. Unjust
take it before meals. and il Is warranted to cure
me-" replied McAdams with a smile as he went
to the adjoining room.
The next moment Mrs. McAdams heard the
soun1 OF a pistol shot from the room. She
rushed in and found her husband on the floor
with a bullet wound in his temple. He had
taken his medicine. He was removed to st.
Vincent's Hospital. where he died yesterday
morning.
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Escaped FROM THE WoRKHousk.
FORD Either swan the River Or Got smuEEIed
en- . Department boat.

en- . Department Boat.
Michael Ford, who was committed to the
workhouse on Black wells Island on Aug. / for
three months, In default OF $500 bail, for disor.
derby conduct, escaped from that institution
Wednesday morning.
Ford WAS drafted as one among the extra help
needed at tho bakery on Wednesday. lie WAS
sent, together with twenty.s six other prisoners.
to work there at 4 o'clock. Ford was found to
be missing when the roll was called at night.
1t is surlnised that the IMAM esca ped on one of
self in a suit o. clothes which could have been
amugEled iuLo his cell. Anoi her theory IS that
he swan across the river. Ford Is - years old,
a painter by trade, and formerly lived at 1885
Third avenue,
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SIX FRACTURED By Il STONE.
Rsa Carrier Threw Is At . hoy. Hes Intending
TO Hart Him.

He'd Carrier Threw nc ut . hoy, HsS intending
TO Hart Him.
Robert Walker. 10 years old, Of 22b West
1924 street was assaulted esterday morning
b. r omas Flanagan, q bod carrier employed
on q new building At o Manhattan street.
Walker said that no went Into the house to AK
for q drI X of water and when o did not 20
away as fast as Flanagan thought b. ought.
Flanagan throw y stone at him The stone
struck him on tho head. causing a probable
fracture OF the skull
Flanagan said that the boy and q number
OF other boys about his age were teasing an old
mar In tho building and he threw q handful of
dirt at them, not knowing that there WAS a stone
in It. Flanagan was held without tnil in the
Harlem Police Court TO await tho result OF tue
boy'b iuiuTiea.
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Fox,y HANDY RIG HI.
NE knocks Out n Tramp who Attempted High
wny Robbery.

STANFORD. Conn, Sept. 9.-Joseph Fox. ayoung
man with considerable local reputation as o
boxer. had an encounter with two tramps, who
held him up last night on Main street. While Fox
was walking to his home about IL o'clock. the
men met him and demanded money. Tho boxer
asked them how much money they wanted. and
they told him they would take all he had. One Of
Out went Fox's right fist. which landed full on
the tramp's chin. knocking him some distance
into the street. where he lay stunned. The
and getting him on his feet, the pair started on
Q run. Tho force OF young Fox's blow dislocated
two fingers Of his right hand.
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WAaHINGT0N, SEP 9.-Tho Navy Department.
to-day received o.. despatch from Admiral Miller
At Honolulu saying that lie had ordered tho
Marion 10 ~n4 T.. nc.sro nd nnn' 'nciU, -
arrival Of tho Bennington TO relieve her on
Afhe ias ship san Francisco sailed to-day from
Unvre foI southampton, the gunbOat Annapolis
from Fort Monroe for Pensacola. and tho new
inrnedn hoRt Footo for New port.
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Killed ~ an Elevator.

John Lynch of 3o3 Fast Thirt ,.ff:h street, m
elevator man. who was crushed nv ia" fr"i hit
elevator in tn, Ma Thorough IIo'c,. at Thirty.
sixth street and Broad"ay. nj ] O'clock ycrtrr.
.uari,I.c. ~. - ..tlIc .n,"r IA "a" New \ ct x
IL ill"l; Lynch vs-s try'ns to huar TO- clio
v"ioT, which WAS in motion, when h" slipped
and MAS caught bel " the third 'Oor and tho
elevator cage. liO received internal injuries
which proved fnlnl
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D,.a Of yellow vever in ocean springs.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9.-About two years ago
George H.. Sanders and family moved from Akin.
this county. to Ocean Springs, Mics. lnforna-
ton has been rec. ivod that Mrs. : .nders died on
Monday OF yellow fever. Her death occurred In
thu morning and she was buried In the evening.
MI. SAnGeIs, his son William and a daughter
arr now very Ill Of the disease, and their reoov-
cry is not eX peCted.
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Kew Hsrk ana BrooLiyn sehaetssn Csrps in
1aFatanA.

sARAToOA. Sept. e.-Ths Now York and Brook
lyn schuetzen Corps. which has been enjoying It's
for.y-nrst annual outing here. held it's ball at
tao Grand Union tonight. This mo ming the
men Of the party hold Q rifle ahoot at the lake,
and the ladies' INDUCED In target practice this
bArty VIII Estarn 70 New YSEk ee-msEfOM
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BBooKs's WEST SIDE RADh.
ne Capitals Caught Mapping Mustnr Les n
Happen Again

H0DDou ARAtn-
There was some uneasiness In the Police De
partment yesterday on account of Inspector
Brooks's raids in three west side precincts night
before last. Chapman, Schmittberger and
Walsh were the three Captains who were raped
over the knuekIes. Another raid in their pre-
cincts will entail charges, Is likely as not
Chapman has been. As pointed out by President
Moss, 30 busy hunting women on the street
that no has had no time to look after the house,
they frequent. SchmittberEer applied for $500
to use In euppresring disorderly houses in his
precinct II may be that Inspector Brooks
meant TO call his BLUM and give him a sample Of
what can be done without money in that direo-
sion.
The thoughtful saw in the raids. which were
declared TO he only a beginning, q fulhlment Of
the promise Of President Moss. made some time
ago, that he would enter as q factor In police
work unless there was a falling OF IN the num-
Dor of complaints OF dives which he received
daily and know to DO justified.