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RENTS SAME ROOMS OFTEN.
ON WITH VIEW LODG Frs BEFoRB
OFF WITH OLD.

Locks the Old Out when New Comc-PnI.
Keys Given to One Lodgcr-NIi,s Leroy, N
BeNow witness, Arrnirncd In Court-sho
Settles with Compininnnta and II Let 60.
An actress. n bookmakcr's wife, and nm on.
gravCr charged May Leroy in tho Yorkvillo
Court yesterday with making unlawful gains
through her lodging house at loo East Twenty.
second street. Miss Leroy gained some notoric.
ty Mt tho timo the LcXow investigating Com.
mittee sat, when she gave evidence as to the
police and disordcrly houses.
This woman just coins money by renting
rooms, getting the money In advance. locking
out the dodgers. and renting their rooms again."
Mrs. Mile Parker, the bookmakor's wife, told
Magistrate Brann.
what mn awful story.tcller, interrupted tho
Leroy woman.
81 hired n room there n week ago to-day" con-
tinued Mrs. Parker, and paid 81 in advance for
n week, had some books in my room, but they
disappeared. l was surprised when | saw tho
landlady reading them in her pnrlor. i told her
she might put them back when she was through
with them.
"A : o'clock Monday morning she camo to
my room, took the key, and told mo to get out,
as some one else wanted the room. told her I
had paid for 1t for n week. She said that didn't
matter, as the now lodgcr had paid for it, and I
must get out or there would be trouble. When
came back that evening the door was locked
ind / couldn't get In"
Il had n worse time than that" now spoke
mp Alma willard, the actress. II had been
there since last June, an unusual length OF time
Tor q lOdEer TO be permitted to stay there. I
pad her FOR n week in advance on Friday, and
on Monday night she told me to get out, us she
wanted my room for another lodgcr. l had to
get out and look for a place to sleep"
The Magistrate asked William Horn, the cn-
grayer, what he had to say.
hired a room from Miss Leroy, last Tues.
day" Horn said. II puid 81. 80 IN advance, and
She gave me two keys, ono to my bedroom and
one for the street door. They were fake keys.
When ! returned to the house at q o'clock the
key would not open the street door. SO / rang the
bell. Miss Leroy opened the door, and told me
] would not need any keys and took those ! had.
She said ] would have to DO in the house Mt 10
o'clock at right. | thought that queer. hut re-
turned at . O'Clock. / couldn't get in. The bell
had been disconnected, and l pulled and pulled
without any answer
lie added that he appealed to the policeman
on post there, but the latter laughed and said
he could do nothing; that il WAS an old story
for people 10 be locked out from that house.
This woman has fourteen rooms" went on
Horn, and charges a good price for them. She
dodgers out. She rents n room three and four
timcsa week, getting the money each time"
Miss Leroy denied this. She said she did not
want the complninants in the house and locked
them ont.
The Magistrate advised Miss Leroy to settle
with her disloiged dodgers, and all hands went
into an Rnteroom, where she returned the money
the complLinants had given her. She was ac-
Cordingly discharged.
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FoRGER TILLER CAUGHT.
Feet Once Enspectora Catch . Snssrtepn lnttsr"
Boz Thief.

~
Boz Thief.
Prentice Tiller, alias Charles n. Price. one OF
the most notorious criminals In this country.
and Gus Lawrence. aAas John Williams. alias
Hawkins, n hotel sneak thief who was recently
released from Blackwells Island. were arrested
in this city Tuesday night, and yesterday Tiller
WAS nrraiRned before Commissioner Alexander.
BE was wanted on a charge OF robbing
street letter boxes in St Joseph. Mo. Tho
Post ohice inspectors found him last
week, but did not arrest him. as they
wanted TO get some papers from Missouri
He was under the surveillance of Post Office
Inspector Jacobs, who was put upon the case by
Chief Inspector Ashe and Detective Beutler Of
tho Pinkerton agency for some time. and they.
assisted by United States Deputy, Marshal NJ, }.
wilkinson, arrested him. taking Lawrence. who
was with him. into custody at the same time,
a toreer. lie stole checks and drafts from let
tcrs and raised them; In this way he and his
confederates are said to have swindled banks
and individuals ont OF several hundred thou
sand dollars. Tiller's ingenuity was shown In
his escape from a Michigan penitentiary In 1893.
for shipment 70 Australia. He hid himself in
one OF the boxes. was taken to the railroad sta
ton. and escaped after nightfalll.
cihc Express Company at st: Louis. nbsconded
with $50. 900. He was caught, and he served
fy9 6S yeaPs q in r ths PGniiisnI IobSery H q mail All Fs boxes.
On June 5. 1897. after having been In Jail sew
eral times. he was released from, a Michigan
States Marshal for robbing letter boxes in St.
Joseph, Mo. While the Marshal was writing a
letter Tiller walked away. and since then has
TiiIer waived examination Yesterday and con.
sented 10 go to Missouri for trial, He told Chief
would plead guilty there, and hoped for . sem
tence OF not more than three years.
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). j. Asron,s nArNou suxx.
She was damned by tho Mary Powell AFTER
Landing Mr.. Astor NJ west Thirty.nrth street.

hAAA"a"a
Ono OF the electric launches Of John Jacob
Astor's stoam yacht Nourmahal was rammcd
and sunk by the Mary Powell in the North
River Off Thirty-third street yesterday morn
ing. Tho Nourmahal arrived hero from New
port at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, and
dropped anchor in the North River opposite
Twenty.seventh street, close to the Jersey
shore. Soon otter Mr.. Astor boarded one Of the
launches which ran In to Mays float, at tho
foot Of West Thirty-ffth street. A carriage
was waiting at the pier to take Mr.. Astor to his
office at 30 West Twonty-sixth street. As soon
as no had gone the launch, with It's engineer on
board, shot out into tho stream again to re-
turn to the Nourmahal.
The Mary Powell. which Is the fastest boat
on the Hudson, came flying down tho river just
as the launch was passing out into the stream.
The Powell, which plies between here and
Poughkeepsie. docs not slow down to make q
landing at her pier at the foot of West Twenty.
second street until after she passes Thirty.
second street. The engineer in the Nouramhal
launch evidently calculated upon her slowing
down sufficiently to allow him to cross her
steamboat did not slack up. and opposite Thir-
ty-third street she rammed the launch Just aft
Of the midsllip section. crushing it.
The engineer saved himself by jumping and
grabbing one of the iron deck braC IS OF the Mary
Powell. Policeman Doess Of the West Thirty
seventh street station saw that the launch was
about to be run down, but a lighter passed be-
tween the shore and steamer al tho moment the
steamboat struck the LAUNCH. Doess ran down
on Mays float and got Mny to go out in his
narhtha launch. Meanwhile the engineer OF the
Nourlnahars launch had been pulled aboard tho
Mary Powell. which went to her pier. May told
the Nourmahal Captain about the accident, and
a search was made for the launch. 1t was not
found. Tho launch was not the fast one which
MIR. Aston had built by Ayers OF Eyack after de-
signs by Mojer and which is built OF mahogany
tnrous33ut' VIII Two m'S ~ hna u sipSrstruc,
he returned to his yacht at q o'clock in the
evening,
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WE'D AND DON'T SP Il
After tho Ceremony tho Bride ana Bridegroom
Go Their separate Ways.

Betsie German, 81 years old. of 377 Grand
street, had MoritZ Grumau, % years old OF Bay.
onne, n. j.. arrested about a week ago in an
action to recover $1,000 damages for breach Of
promise Of marriage. Gruman. who is a cloak
maker. moved yesterday before Justice Schuch-
man of the City Court to vacRte the order Of ar
rest on the ground that he had never refused TO
marry the girl. and as evidence OF his good faith
he said no would marry her in court. Miss Cor
mans attorney objected. saying that the offer
was not made in good faith, as he believed from
Information he had received that Gruman would
not marry his client, and II he did 1t would DO
only to desert her Immediately.
:" l can't help that" said Justice Schuchman.
" am not here to prevent people abandoning
zach other, and II he will marry her l will va.
cate the order OF arrest"
The defendant was brought from Jail to court,
where the plaintiff, who is Il small and coInely
girl, already was. They did not speak TO each
other and they sat back TO back. The Judge
still said that he did not care TO marry them.
man. All hands went before Alderman Joseph
SchillinG and the ceremony proceeded without
the couple having spoken to each other. They
clasped hands. however, while the ceremony
tons in low tones, and both seemed in far from
q happy frame OF mind.
Tho ceremony over. one OF the counsel sug-
Rested that they leave together. as Gruman
kept moving of to tho door alone. Gruman
said he had no place to take his bride. but she
There is plenty OF room in my homei in Grand
street"
Gruman waited around until he ascertained
that the order OF arrest had been vacated. Then
he said he would go to his room In the hotel and
might call on his bride later. Tho bride went
another way with her friends.
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oHAPMAN's WAR ON STREET WOMEN.
II 10 ~ Lively ne Ever-They AFRO Now Held
for Disordcriy Conduct.


Tho fly cops" OF Capt. Chapman have do
vised a new method with which to capture
wone OF the streets. Under the ruling Of many
OF the Magistrates, It is a difficult matter for
them to get a woman fined or sent to the Island
on the charge OF soliciting, tor 1t Is required Of
the policemen to produce witnesses who can
swear that the women had solicited. The police
men accordingly have had to travel in pairs.
which made the work OF capturing women
doubly difficult. for the women are pretty sharp
10 begin with and 1t is much easier for them to
detect a pair OF cops than one.
The new charge that has been formulated
and which is entertained by tho Magistrates is
interfering with pedestrians and disorderly
conduct" This makes the work OF the fly cop
comparatively easy. He and his side part.
ner, both in plain clothes. stroll up and down
the streets. Whenever they see a woman accost
q man or stop him they promptly nab her and
lock her up on the above charge. The Magis-
trate entertatns 1t, and the woman gets the
same fine as for soliciting, S. or $40. some Of
the Magistrates infictinR the first amount,
others the second. As a result OF this. although
the policemen try to get as many soliciting"
arrested in the Tenderloin are compelled TO
answer to the new charge. and they do not like
1t a bit.
Although little Is heard of it. Chapman's war
on street walkers is as lively AZ ever. For q
while. after the general outcry q few months
ago, his men let up and arrests were few, but
now he has five or six men out every night, and
ten or a dozen women each day in tho Jefferson
Market Police Court form the usual result OF
their work. II Ia a rather peculiar fact that, as
a general rule, it is the Same women who are
hauled In night after night, One woman made
a record OF being arrested three times in two
nights. On the first night she was bailed out,
and was back in the station within a half hour.
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NEWPORT, r. l.. Sept. There was a large
and fashionable attendance at Trinity Church
this noon TO witness the marriage OF Miss Sata-
lie Bayard Dresser. daughter Of the lato Mr.. and
Mrs. q. w. Dresser, to Mr.. John Nicholas Brown.
Miss Dresser. leaning on the arm OF her brother.
Mr.. Daniel Leroy Dresser, walked down the
aisle OF the church just as the clock struck noon.
The bride was met by the bridegroom and his
best man; his cousin. MIR. Horace BinnCy. and by
four clergymen. the Rt. Rev. Bishop Potter. the
Rev. G. J. Magill, the Rev. Emory H.. Porter.
and the Rev. C. A. l.. Richards OF Providence.
all OF whom assisted in the m The
bride wore IA white satin gown and carried a
prayer book. There were no bridesmaids. The
nshors were Mr.: II. e.. Gushing. Mr.. J: DE Forest
DGniclson. Mr.. Elisha Dyer, lr.. Mr.. j. II. Hunt,
Mr.. Haroll Fitzgerald, and Mr.. ID. h. Cpdike.
After lae ceremony a reCcntion and wedding
breakfast were given at the residence OF Mr..
Edward king on Bowery street. Tins ttnc old
estate is one of the most extensive in Newport.
The reception was held in the blue drawing
room. Tho chief decoration was the bridal bell,
under which Mr.. and Mrs. Brown received their
friends. The bell was suspended by broad white
sash ribbons beneath n bower OF flowers and
greens.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09
The weather.

The low pressure area which has been hanging over
the Southwest for several DAYS past has developed
into IA wclidefned storm az considerable force zen.
trail owe North Dakota. This has Increased the heat
In the central States, the upper Mississippi and Mis-
souri, valleys. where the temperature was between
900 and l02' yesterday afternoon. showers fell In
scattered places In til" lower lakes, the New England
States, the Northwest, and IN Florida.
In this city the day op"ned cloudy aud humid, hue
by noon the weather had cleared. The average Eu.
nliIity was - per cent. wind south. average velocity
twelve miles an hour; highest orIcial temperature
10 lowest 60 barometer. corrected TO road to sea
level, at + A. NJ. 3u.2s, 3 L, ~, 1913.
The Thermometer NJ the unitoi states Weather Bu'
reau registered the temperature yesterday MS followsl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09
ANDREHs'S LETTER RECEITED.


PROVIDENCE. r l.. S'pt. s.-Dr. F. Benjamin
AnGrews's letter announcing n, retusa! 20 with
draw Ills resignation OF the Presidency Of Brown
Unive sity was received his morning by the
Rev. Thomas D.. Anderson, secretary OF the cor
p~oration. As told n II Sun this morn ng.
this IS DR.. Andrcws's ult matum in the matter.
Within a short tine he will conclude his .abors
at he university and will devote his attention
to forward ne tho Interests OF the college started
uv ] I'M Nr sh'n Wa ser.
The letter is the outcome of the meeting yes
teriay afternoon hctwcen DIR. Andrews and tho
committee OF the trustees OF Brown University.
Before the gathering the President OF the uni
vcrsity had arrived at n decision regarding the
matter, and much OF the time Of the meeting
was taken up in a discussion OF III" exact lam
guaGc in which the statement of Ir. Andrews
should he cnuchcd. There was practically no
attempt al the meeting 10 dissuadc MIN rom
his intention OF adhcring to his original letter
OF resignation.
President Andrews will be succeeded by a man
more in harmony with tho spirit of the institu-
ton. The men talked OF for the place include
Benjamin ldc Wheeler OF Cornell, Beninh Whit.
man II Columbia the Rev. W. H.. p. FAunce Of
New York, and DIR. Thomas ID. Anderson.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09
MINORS CAN'T RENT LETTER BOXES.
The Pest once Department Won't Ala ChiIdren
TO Garry on secret CorroapoDdence.

The Post once Department Won't Aid Children
to Carry on secret Correspondence.
An order has been issued by tho Postmaster
General forbiddinR tho renting Of lock boxes
and call boxes in Post Offices TO minors. The
order Is worded as follows:
1T having been brought to tho notice Of tho
department that in some instances call and lock
boxes arc being rented to minors. 1t is hereby
ordered that such boxes shall not be so rented
without the written consent OF the parents or
guardians OF such minors"
The order was issued because the postal au-
thorities found that many young girls and boys
carried on correspondence without the consent
OF their parents. receiving their mail In the
boxes which they rented. The authorities
learned OF several cases in which much harm
had been done to young people by aCquhintRnces
formed as the result OF such correspondence.
f. +. Jenkins. the Secretary OF the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty To Children, said yes
terday that the order was an excellent pre-
caution for the Post Office Department to take.
The Gerry Society did not ask to have the order
issued. =.
Mr.. Jenkins, land IL might have been issued be-
fore, The society has known OF much evil which
has come from tho use OF such boxes by minors,
and especially to girls under IL years Of age.
More noticeable. however, has been the evil
resulting from the many letter agencies and
private offices in the city. but Of course this is
hard TO prevent
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09
FATAL HIT IN CHATHAM SQUARE.
Michael Agnew. 4 Frame Maker, Killed by .
Blow In n street Row.

sniCnhet hGneWs u ETnme Nnker, Ihtllcd Dy .
Blow In n street Row.
A fight followed the meeting Of two mon in
Chatham square yesterday at daylight. What
1t was that gave offence no man knows save
one now in the Tombs. They quarrellcd n mo-
ment, then this one hauled off.and smashed the
other in the face. The man who WAS struck
fell like "a log. A crowd gathered and cackled
delight at the prospect Of a fight. 1t formed a
circle about the PROSTATE one and tho man who
had hit him.
Hit i'm agin!" "Git up. Roxey. n soak
'im!" and like incentives to battle were shout
other side OF the street and showed his way
through the crowd.
"Who hit 'imi' he asked. One of the crowd
pointed at the aseailant, and the policeman ar
rested the man. He felt Of the PROSTATE mans
Hes dead." he said.
The crowd scattered. In ten minutes, SO far
as that part of the city was concerned. the incl
dent was closed. 1t was only an incident
Who was the dead II ani Nobody knew. No.
to tho Oak street station. There the Prisoner
said he was William Sayre. no occupation. no
home, his age, 70 year,. He gave the address
stopped occasionally. He told the police that
he had struck the other man because he had
called him a vile name. He insisted that the
Ing his head against the pavement. Later in
the day Magistrate Wentworth rcmandcd Sayre
Moeber committed him to the Tom6s without
bail pending an investigation of the case.
The hospital surgeons who examined the dead
man say that he had been drinking heavily.
The body was identified al the MorSuc last
night as that OF Michael Aguew. a frame maker.
so years old. who lived at the Marion House.
tification was made bv Julia Dempsey. "a sister
OF the dead man. She lives at II James street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09
IDENTIFIED LUETG ERTs KNIFE.
We Prosecution says He Used It In Numbering
His WIFE.

CHICAGO. Sept. ga large clasp knife with o
blade fully three inches long was offered in evil
aence by the State In the Luetgert murder trial
To-day. Mrs. Christina Feldt, who was recalled
twice during the days proceedings-once by the
bate and once by the defence-swore that this
knife had been given her by Luetgert on the day
On which he was arrested. He told her to keep
Hiof him.. When she turned against the pris-
oner hhe handed II over to Inspector Setback.
Its said to have blood spots on it. The prose-
eution will attempt to prove that this knife was
used by Luetgert in cutting up his wife after
killing her.
In the morning two reporters told Of securing
ssanpIe OF the solution In which Mrs. L~uetKert's
poay Is SAID to have been disintegrated by caus-
VIC potash. and Of giving the substance TO q
eneinist for analysis. Policeman Bernard Preuss
"u OF a search among tho ashes from the Luet-
soft factory boiler room and the discovery In
nem OF pieces OF steels from a woman's corsets
ahd fragments Of bono. The cross.examination
was largely in relation to details of the places
shere the witness spoke of finding bones and
voc corset steels. Mr.. Phalen asked the witness
uhnere were not large bones on the pile OF ashes
ZONES which he picked up and had thrown
smsy again. Many questions as to distances
suu exact locations followed, and the witness
s,s : asked 4 he knew anything about corset
- NAAA As
~, n odenbredt, q corset maker, identified
s \. na,f,destroyed bits OF steel as the front
mn ~ OF a corset. Carl Klein, a dentist who had
ttbbs s a set Of teeth for Mrs. tuetgert. looked at
i5ser Rnece OF tooth found in the vat, but failed to
ro pos u as his work. Emma Schimpko cor.
IN Ousnsea the testimony Of her sister, Gottllebe,
atosSra 70 seeing tho LuetRerts go into the
tSs,p on The night OF May /. 1t was known
hot sne had repeatedly asserted tina she did
ia, n men, but she explained this by saying
pooGno didn't want to get into the case"
hli1MGeman Fred Tallowse told OF finding q
ssanp, IN the Luetgert factory ash pile. Ser.
itsdarr Il 3phngler helped find the corset steels.
tos1ruarIIqh b!cknese was recalled TO identity pho.
Fea1ddstpns or his sister. Mrs. LuetRert. and Mrs.
teii -, mHAs compelled by defendants counsel TO
Who business transactions with the Luetgerts,
Iy in II" ueI her a piece Of property last Fobru.
ssamiinsSS u. Gibson, q chemist, said that he had
ths IntN samples Of tho caustic potash from
iSSDo haetgcrt vat, and that 1t appeared. In his
Sody Tpeni' as such a solution would II a human
sSsw mnG been boiled In 1t. lie was not cross.
bii""irE'hed. Oscar Foreman, a banker, and John
(n,noMt., son on the factory Waterman, were un-
~"Orrow morning. N"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09

New omc.rs for Knight. or sherwood Forest.

The biennial session OF the Supreme Conven-
tIon Of the Knights OF Sherwood Forest. which
opened IN Woods Hall. Jersey CITY, on Tuesday.
closed yesterday. The officer elected are: Past
Supreme Commander. SaumelB Il. Morris. Fall Riv.
or. Mass; SUI rene Commander. Dan el J. Nc
Gowan. Newport. L.. 1 /; Supreme Adjutant-Gcn.
eral, J. +. Sullivan. Newport. II. l.; SUI cIne In.
spector.G General. William McClosEoy, Brooklyn.
N. Y; FIRST and Second Assistant Inspector.Gcn-
erals. Henry Barber. Boston, and JOIN Z. Finn.
PIovldenc". respectively; Supreme PaNmas q
surGeon,G General DR., joan n: Trom,lon, Brook
IXy1; Assistant supreme ,t surgeSn,Gener.l DR.:
9uartermasteE;G General, F.. ! HoinsaT,neF.
KEipMGs .Gi NJ p o. o 0niG cbsT 81 she ~ Sus RNrs HUgh
Jersey City; supreme Auditors. John =; Quinn.
Fall River: Mass p Mcslnmshlin and James
Thomas Nolan, Brockton, Mass; John T, Mel.
Bedford, Mass. The next convention will be
held In Buffalo, n. y.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-09

M~ARBLEHEAD. Mass, Sept. s.-Miss Cornelia
Harndcn Wright. daughter OF Colonel and Mrs.
Carroll ID. Wright, became the bride this after.
noon of John Bruce Mcpherson OF Gettysburg,
Pa, tho eldest son OF the late Edward McPhcr.
son, for many ycars,clerk OF the National House
OF Representatives.
The marriage took place Mt Col. WriGht's cot
tage. The Rev. Rush II. Shipper OF l'rockton.
Mass. who used TO be Col. Wright's pastor in
Washington, performed the ceremony. Miss
Grace d.. Wright. the younger sister OF the
bride was maid OF honor. and Donald L. Me.
Phcrson. n brother of the bridegroom. was best
man.
The bride wore a gown OF cream Dresden silk.
II was worn by her grcat.grcat' grandmother
when, in, l7s7, she became the bride of Dr.
old fan that went with It. The veil OF old
fashioned lace WAS made by her great.grcat-
aunt, Miss Duncan OF Havrrhill. and her silver
shoe buckles were worn on his wedding day by
her fathers at-grandfathCr. Col. Jacob
Wright. n Revolutionary soldier of rcnown. and
one OF the pioneer settlers of New Hampshire.