The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-19
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
A Girl is Murdered by Her Lover in
a Store.
DIsFIGUREs DOCTORS WIFE.
Burial of Child Of Commander
Booth-Tucker-Mr. Hunting
ton Coming Homc-Relief
for India.
DIsFIGuREs DOCTORS WIFE.

NEW YORK, May 1S.-Special.-A
young woman about twenty-siX years OF
age, dressed III black, called last night at
the residence OF Dr.. john ]. Cronln' No.
41S West Fifty-first Street and MIS-.
Cronin met her in the hall. The woman
asked to see the Doctor, but MIS-. Croilih
told ner that the Doctor was out
Well said the young woman 1 catl-
ed TO give him this.
She took a. bottle from her pocket and
unscrewed the top. Then she lung the
contents into Mrs. Cronin's face MrS'
Cronin screamed with pain and the young
woman fed. DR.. Cronin heard MS WE
screams and ran downstairs she hao
tainted The left side of her face was
badly burned The Doctor thinks that
some solution of potash had been used
Some of the fluid had got into Mrs. Cron-
ms eye and she win probably lose her
sight.
Il was said at the residence that an
operation would probably be necessary
TO save Mrs Crontns sight. The young
woman who assaulted her escaped, and ut
this writing has not been caught. Dr..
Cronin said that ne knew OF no woman
who had a grudge against MIN.
GIRL KILLED IN a STORE.
Mary Brannigan, twenty-four years OF
age, was shot and killed by her lover IN
Reinhardt's department store on 1nisa
Avenue Yesterday The murderer is Ed
ward Hall. twenty-five years of age, who
had been attentive to the girl Tor long
time
Hall entered the store by the front en-
trance and walked quietly over TO the
ribbon counter, behind which Miss Bran
nigan was standing. After a brief con-
versation, during which the woman
seemed mulch excited, Hall drew a re-
volver, and, pointing it at her breast.
fred She ran shrieking to the rear Of
the store.
Hall followed on the other side of the
counter. with receiver in his hand. Isl
dor Weisbader. a member OF the firm,
made a motion to stop Hall. and the
man exclaimed Don't touch me, or
will blown the crown Of your head ell
Keep away Weisbader stepped aside
Before the girl reached the rear of the
store Hall fired another shot, which
struck her in head, and she fell dead.
Hall cUolly placed the revolver in his
pocket and walked to the front of the
store.
When policeman arrived he said:
i've waited for you, Mr.. officer. Rather
| long in coming. Oh, she knew what was
! coming, and she ought to have expected
| it. It wasn't so sudden" He was COM
raitted to the Torlbs.
QUEER t'U NERAL
| The infant child of Commander and
| Mrs Booth-TuclSer, of the Salvation
| Army, was buried yesterday afternoon in
Woodlawn cemetery. \ large number of
| the members of the Salvation Army were
| present, but neither men nor women had
any semblance of mourning about thelr
| clothing. Instead they wore on their lett
| arms white silk bands upon which the word
| victory was marked in flaming Letters.
| A band escorted the remains to The 2eAle-
terry playing For you and me shere Is
| crown of victory"
Commander Booth-Tucfer delivered q
| short address He said: THE ways or
| tine Lord are not the ways of man. had
intended that little William should have
| a college education when he grew CIDER
D.! and in every way Should be httei to take
| I'D work in the Salvation Army. I;ut ne
has been called where ne can ge- tetter
| educa ton than any college could give
| him. and where, I believe, he can do as
| much for the cause as II ne were mere
| among US.
| The Anti-Saloon League is after Corbett
| and Sullivan. It has asked the Supreme
| Court ito cancel a number of LIQUOR tax
| certificates issued to saloon keepers Tor
| the wear beginning May 1st, among when
| are licenses OF the two prize lighters
| named. The charges are for selling liquor
| at prohibited times.
The Committee OF One Hundred on India
! Famine Relief acknowledges contrlou-
| tons amounting to more than $500
| Mr. Coils p Huntington, president o.
| the Southern Pacific Railroad, WHO mas
| been on the Pacific Coast for some ilTe
| past, is row on his way TO New YORK;
! He will travel leisurely over the Cen.fsll
! Pacific, making an inspection OF that line.
A BIG VERDICT.
| Miss Hannah Collins got verdict IN
| in the Supreme Court in Jersey City yes
| terday of $4,000 in a suit against the Jer-
| sey Central Railroad Company she was
| struck by train on that road on sep
| TENDER 30, 1899 She and party oil
| friends were waiting on the platform for
! a train. The train stopped and the con-
! ductor shouted AL aboard" The Dassen-
! gers had to cross three tracks to get 70
| the cars AS Miss Collins stepped from
! the station platform another train came
| dasting around the curve and struck her-
| Several doctors testified shat she was a
! permanent physical wreck and Will never
| recover. her mental faculties she had %
| be taken to the court in an ambulance
| and carried in the courtroom on
| stretcher The verdict is the largest ever