The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Lively Interest Shown in the Election
Betting.
MORE THAN SIX CENTS FORA LIFE
Young Physician Dragged and Robbed
in Broad Dayli :ilt-S Son of q
Wealthy Merchant Abducted
and Held for Ransom.

and Held for Hanson.
! NEW YORK, Oct. 2o.-Liveiy betting
| interest in the election was shown oS
| Bryan men yesterday The largest
| amount risked was $4,000 against $4,000
On Mckinney Several bets were involved
| in the sum, but the names OF the prlsici-
| pals were withheld. The sum OF $9o,ooo
| involved in the wager between JACOB
Field and "JatN' Mcdonald, book
maker, believed to be acting for Richard
! Croker was posted with Bell s. Co. yes
| terday. Mr. Field said he thought Mr..
| Mcdonald had made the wager in his
| own behalf.
| az am q strong believer in Mckinley,
said Mr.. Field. so sure am OF Reouo-
lican success that I Will wager 100000 at
to that Bryan will be defeated His
| recent speeches have been so full OF
| anarchists ideas that. think. they Will
! cost him many votes. and this Is one of
| the chief reasons why am willing to bet
! against him
| CRIMES AGAINST THE FRANCHISE.
| Captain F. Norton Goddard, the Rspuo-
| lican leader of the Twentieth Assembly
| District, declared last night that attempts
| were being made to co.ouizs voters IN his
| district. He announced that he had $1,000
| TO ee spent in sh> prosecution Of crimes
! against the franchise there.
! LAS an example, said ne. there is 4
| corner il Third Avenue where there are
/ thirtv-hve rnen registered from one Raines
| law hotel. The average number Of
+! patrons in that building, which is four
| stories high and built on u twenty-five
I foot lot, IS twelve. Last election
| thought they were crowding things good
deal when they registered sixteen, but
this year they have thirty-hve OF
course. al least twenty OF these are not
bona fiIe residents = any sense
! Directly across the street, or the op-
| posite corner. is another Ranes law hotel.
| where. We have information there are to
! De sixteen men registered. Nne Of these
| have registered SO far. and they are ez-
| pectirg the other seven to turn up These
! men came from such places as No s.
| Elizabeth Street and No. 81 Bowery
| Any day last week that you chose TO go
down TO No. So Elizabeth Street you would
| find at least two hundred men waiting to
De hired, and I regret 10 say that there
were men from our district hiring them
and we have many of their names and al
dresses. 1t is the same at No. SIT Bowery-
| VERDICT SET ASIDE
| SIX cents does not represent the value
| OF a boys life in the State OF New York
| as Judge McAdam and a jury in the Su-
| preine Court decided in June 1893 As the
result OF new trial ordered by the APP
! pelate Division, before Judge O'Gorrnan If
| the Supreme Court, that verdict was yes
| terday overruied, and instead of six cents.
/ Charles B. Morris, a wealthy grain and
| commission merchant, secured $500 dam
| ages for the death of mis- son. Leslie b
! Morris, sixteen years old. who died in
| November, 1895 from injuries received in
| collision between carriage IN which
he was riding and an electric car OF the
| Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
| BY this verdict the decision of Judge
+, William S. Gumuere, Of the New Jersey
Supreme Court, placing the possible dam
! ages for death at 81, has been restored to
its place as an unusua! precedent il
! modern court of a nominal damage 70
| the loss of human life.
! DRUGGED IN DAYLIGHT.
| DR.. Wylie S. Jones' a member OF a
| prominent family Of North Carolina, and
! who came TO this city to take a post
graduate course in medicine. reported to
the ao:ice yesterday that he had been
| drugged robbed and assaulted In a Seventh
! Avenue saloon, in broad daylight.
! DR.. Jones has been in New York only
about q month. He said yesterday that h.
felt in need of stinuant Thursday
! morning. and dropped into Mallov's saloon.
| at the southwest corner OF Seventh Ave-
nue. and West Twenty-sixth Street. and
ordered milk punch. He noticed three
men In the saloon, and one OF them
entered into conversation with him. He
! drank the milk punch. and has only a
| vague recollection OF what happened az
| terwa-d.
He was found in front OF the saloon oy
| William Smith, medical student who is
boarding at No 2S1 West Twenty-third
Street. next door TO where DR.. Jones Is
living, and knew the Doctor slightly
/ Jones was bleeding at tho nose and ears
| his face was swollen, and he seemed
| dazed. Mr. Smith took Dr.. Jones to his
room The young physician became I'M
conscious, and it was thought that his
| skull had been fractured. Physicians who
/ examined him failed to find fracture
however. and yesterday he recovered con
sciousness.' He said that his gold watch
and chain and $50 in money had been
stolen in Malloy,s saloon, and that he had
| been assaulted and thrown out OF the sa-
loon.
/ STOLE ENGRAvINGs.
Officials OF the New York Public Librar ~
believe that aftsr weeks OF patien. watch
| ns they have found in An ranIc Azhde-tan
a lecturer on Armenia. the thief who has
! c>pofed many rare volumes forming D. RI
% the Tilden collection in the Lenox
; Branch. Easravings have oeeu disappear
ing from va'u,b.e books at the branch
library. at Seventieth Street and Fifth
Avenue. for more tian month Azh-
| derian. VINO has been a daily visitor there,
has pt.fered with such skill ii is charged.
that 1t was not possible until yesterday TO
apprehend him. The stolen eng-avings are
supposed to have been sold to art col
| lectors.
Azhderian has been lecturlng on Armen-
ian life IN the free series given at night.
under the direction Of the Board OF Edu-
cation In the public schools. He was sup
! posed to be in quest OF statistical and
/ historical data for use in his lectures in
the library, but William Elliott, an at
lendant, who posed as a student, and sat
beside the lecturer for an hour yesterday,
says he saw him steaithiIy rip up an
! engraving OF Sir Walter Raleigh from a
/ volume of Knirhr'S tsE,a~l.y EiSto-