The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-14
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
/. ecker and. His Wife Have a Lively
Row Over Their Boy.
GAMBLING AN! u HIS LIFE AWAY.
/, 1sumor That the New York De-.
mocrncy Will Not Endorse
Bryan-Interestins
Society Item.
GAMBLING HIS LIFE AWAY.

NEW YORK, April i3.-Special.-As an
ticipated in this correspondence, there
were lively times at the dock yesterday
when Charles Fecker and his wife Went
to the dock to meet little Conrad tecSer.
This is the boy over whom F'ecker and
his wife have been wrargllnS LOT some
time past Fecker claims that the woman
kidnapped the boy before he married her.
and AIRS. Fecker5 says that she took Aitti
out of a founding hospital.
The boy arrived In Hoboken from Bre-
men on the steamer Lain in care OF
steward. Fecker boarded the steamer
down the bay. When the LAIN arrived
al the pier F'ecker was served with Wit
of habeas corpus, demanding that ne pro-
duce the boy In court. On the ADVICE or
his lawyer, Mr. Fecker refused TO OBEY
the writ OF the court, and was placed
under arrest Mrs. Fecker. with her
counsel. arrived at the pier an hour before
the ship Because of her many repeated
threats to do her husband bodily injury.
the IIoboken police searched her, through
one OF tie customs inSpectresses. Her
lawyer claimed that no weapons were
found upon her. but one of the police ON
Gals claims that a revolver was found
upon her person
A DESPERATE WOMAN.
AS soon as the boy came ashore, his
father carrying f1im.JNIrs. Fecker attempt
ed to force her way IN mis- direction. but
was restrained by those on the pier. Inc
boy. when, he saw the woman, put MS
head on Mr.. tFecker's shoulder, saying:
mo. no. nor. A controversy between
Mr.. and Mrs. Fecker and the, law officers
ensued. Mrs. Fecker was violent and
n afr a of hpr
A crowd of several thousand persons
gathered about the pier. The whole party
were taken to the police station in He
| boken The Hoboken police sent the dis
| putants to New York, where they APP
peared before Judge Fitzgerald IN the
Supreme Court. F'ecker was in the lead,
the lads hand clasped tightly in his. I,he
court proceedings lasted only few min
utes. Judge Fitzgerald suggested that ltt-
tie Conrad be turned over to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
until Monday, when. he said. he would
decide which, if either. party should have
custody of the child. This Was agreed to,
and so the matter stands.
HIS MANIA FOR GAMBLING
Mrs. G. Walker has complained to Po-
lice Captain Thomas that her father-in-
law. Fernando r. Walker, seventy-nine
years old. has mania for gambling, and
West Thirty-second Street. where he has
already lost fs15ooG0 in cash, while one of
the proorietors is living in house won
from her father-in-law.
The latter is now living in a hotel near
the gambling house. so he will not have
SO far to walk. One OF the doorkeepers
of the place says the old man frequently
falls asleep over the cards.
AGAINST BRYAN?
TJarn of thiS morning saws.
It developed yesterday that there Is
great doubt about the Democrats of this
State endorsing the candidacy OF VIII
liam T. Bryan in their State Convention.
The delegates are likely to go uninstruct-
ed This may mean that they Will be Tor
Admiral Dewey if Dewey has chance
for the nomination. There is general re-
greet that the Admiral did not declare MS
candidacy six months ago. The opinion
was also expressed that there Will be
some trouble about declaring in favor OF
the Chicago platform.
Many Democrats want q declaration IN
favor of the gold standard They think
this will be q good way or getting MT
Bryan and his friends to accept a modt-
fled Chicago platform, and make the cam
paign on the trusts. the mistakes OF the
war, and the plumbers of the colonial
policy of the administration
Democrats VINO talked with Mr- Jill
and Mr. Murphy came away with feel
ing that there was good chance OF Demo
cratic success If Bryan would only con-
sent this time to take the nomination on
behalf OF the West as its share and let
the East make the platform.
MISS ROCkEF7ELDER'S hIAFatsliAtfti-
There is much interest here over the
announcement from Chicago that Miss
Alta Rockefeller is to marry Mr. T. Par-
malice Prentice.
Miss Alta Rockefeller is the second of
John D. Rockefeler's four chiidfen- OF
whom three are daughters. The eldest
daughter. Bessie, is the wife OF professor
Charles Strong, who holds the Chair OF
+ Psychology in the Chicago University, the
institution to which Mr.. Rockefeller mas
given about s.. 600. coo. Professor strong Is
the son of the Rev. DR.. Charles a Strong,
for many years at the head of the
Rochester Theological Seminary. another
institution which has profited largely
from Mr. Rockefeller's munificence
Miss Alta, the second daughter, is now
thirty-one years old. Her younger sstsss
Edith, who Il, two years her junior. was
married five years ago to Harold Motor
mick. the son OF a millionaire Reaper
manufacturer of Chicago.
The youngest of ting children Is John D.
Rockefeller. il. the }nly son, VINO IS no"
twenty-eight years old.
INSURANCE MAN DEAD.
f. Boudinot Colt, a director OF the New
York Equitable Life Assurance COMPANY,
at No. 12o Broadway, died there suddenly
at,haf-past 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
His death is attributed to apoplexy he
was ,seventy-six years old. He was man
OF wealth. and had long held position
OF Importance with the corporation
Colonel F,,{kerSOn's Health.
Editor of The Times:
iSir.-The reference to the illness or