The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-06
FRESH Cos
FROM. GOTHAM.
Comptroller Coler May Run for the.
wayoralty.
DAVID HILL WILL: NOT BE LEFT I.
Martin AIahon, Upon whom Eayne
Moore Worked the I" Bad ger"
Game, is Dead Pfcachsrs
and Theatres.

NEW YORK, March special.-con1p-
tro,ler Coler is making it red-hot Tor
the politicians in New York. He recently
created a sensation by declaring that
robbery in the city of New York Is now
being done every day under cover OF law,
and that some OF our modern statesmen,
under the shield OF the Legislature, have
made caring raids on the city treasury
that caused Tweed's efforts to look like
t;.ose of an amateur
He made remark in Brooklyn last
night which caused even a greater sensa-
ton Somebody had said that Mr.. Co,er.
was politically dead: to which he re-
piled ..if am dead l may add that
with such warm supporters as have
found in Brooklyn I may try to kick
Oft the lid OF the coffin which some think
has been prepared for me-
This is interpreted to mean that he
will run as ian Independent candidate
for Mayor, aid if SO there will re, no
doubt, some interesting revelations and
q lively race. Iii,
HILL AS HAsDELEGATE.
In this connection it may be mentioned
that ex-senator Hill will be one of the
to the National Democratic Convention.
So says Counsel NThaien, who, as a
messenger from Richard Croker, has had
an interview with Hill on the. subject.
1t has not yet been determined, how.
ever, who will be Mr.. Hills colleagues
on the delegation-at-larse. It is not be-
lieyed that Croker will be one.
Mr. DIXON AND sAPHO.
Rev. DR.. A. c. Dixon who is we'll
known in Richmond. and who is now pas
tor OF the Hanson Place Baptist Church.
in BROOKLYN said yesterday to q reporter.
.'SaVho' is but a part OF a corrup1
and corrupting establishment. The stage
as it exists >to-day is corrupt through
and through, with only here and there
a wholesome spot.
III what learn is true there are sew
eral plays now being enacted IN New
York that are as bad as 'Sapho, and
over beside these exhibitions of vileness
and filth you can find but one or two
moral and edifying plays in the whole
of the great city. These last make a
tamentably small percentage OF the tota!
number of exhibitions served up for the
amusement and patronage Of the people
my opinion OF the stage is that It
has reached a state where it needs q
cleaning such as was given the Augean
stables When the street bulletins are
SO bad the performance must be VILE.
The Rev Mr.. Dixon expressed similar
sentiments yesterday in his sermon on
Glow to Evangei:ze the City declar-
ing that the stage and the literature OF
the present. day needed cleansing
MARTIN MAHONz DEAD.
Martin AIahon, proprietor of the New
| Amsterdam Hotel, and upon whom Fayne
Moore and her husband worked the
badger game. died yesterday in Califor-
MIA where he had gone in search OF
health. He was tifty-four years of age,
| and of Irish birth.
| Mahon met Mrs Moore in 1896. when,
| as Fayne Strahan, she first came to this
| city from ATLANTA, Ga. They became
friends and Mahon devoted considerable
| time to her. She was married In the
| latter part of 1897 to William A. e. Moore,
! once United States Consul to Durham,
South Africa, and said to be a relative
of Mark Hanna
On November 4, 1888, Sfahon received a
message from Mrs. Moore, who was then
| stopping with her husband at the Hotel
| Grcnctie, asking him to meet her that
evening at the Hotel Metropole. Mrs.
| Moore told him her husband and she had
quarrelled ard ne had gone to Washing
| ton She took Mahon to her apartments
| in the Grenoble.
| While Mahon was there, at a given
signal, Moore rushed in and threatened
to kill both Mrs. Moore and her com
| panion. He finally said that Mahon
loud have TO pay him s50.CGo for his
| life. and Maion did consent to give 5000.
! executing to Moore a promissory note
| for that amount. Moore and his wife
were arrested on Mahon's complaint. The
| trial of Moore speedily followed. and he
| 70 nj, in no
| Sing. Mrs. Moore's trial came next, and
| the jury disagreed. a second trial was
! ordered in February of last year. but in
| the meantime Mallol had disappeared.
| He was finally located but declined to
| prosecute and Fayne Moore was set at
| liberty. She is now in London.