The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-05
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Kept Marriage Secret for Twelve
Months.
POLICE SEVERELY ARRAIGNED.
Wealthy Real Estate Operator Found
Dead in a Vacant Housc-Physi-
clan Saved Life of Young Girl
But Won't Marry Fer.
POLICE SEVERELY ARRAIGNED.

\ NeafSey, Who, Until Monday, was house
/! surgeon at the Harlem Hospital, yester-
day coGfded 10 his friends that ne had
been married secretly a year ago. His
wife was formerly a Miss Winters, OF
sea Cliff, L. L. Owing to a regulation o:
| the Harlem Hospital requiring all staff
physicians to be single men, Dr.. Neafsey
mad kept his marriage secret until his
term as house surgeon had expired.
DR.. Neafsey was Very popular among the
physicians of the Harlem Hospital lie
could tell a good story and sing Il god
song. He was reputed 10 be the jollIasE
young. bachelor on the staff Of the uos-
pital 1t was in his room that the doctors,
when not on duty, generally gathered to
smoke their pipes and discuss the inter-
esting patients that filed the wards.
His companions noticed that recently
DIR. Neafsey had not been with item as
much as formerly. 1t caused considerable
comment. Some one had seen the Doctor
IN Sea Cliff several weeks ago day
when his services We're not required at
the hospital This recalled the fact nat
Dr Neafsey, for nearly a year, mad written
frequent letters, all of which were directed
to The same Long Island town
SUEING THEIR SISTERS.
Henry B. Ledyard. president Of the
Michigan Central Railroad Company. and
his brother, Lewis Cass Ledyard, commo-
dore of the New York Yacht Club, have
brought an action in the Supreme Court
for the purpose of having Il construction
placed on the will OF their father, The late
Henry Ledyard relative to the provision
made for his wife. Mrs. Matilda C. Led
yard, who died IN London in November,
| 1885. Judge Bischoff has granted an order
placing the case on the preferred calendar
for October 18th.
The estates of both Mr.. and Mrs Led
yard are involved in the suit ana are esti-
mated to be worth more than $109oeCp
| Charles E. Hughes and Maud Spencer Led
| yard. as executors of Mrs Ledy3rtfs MIL
| and Mrs Elizabeth Cass Goddard, are de-
! PENDANTS in the action.
| Miss Ledyard and Mrs. Goddard are
sisters, being daughters of Mrs. bedyard'
| so that the suit IS in reality brought by
| the brothers against their sisters.
DEAD IN VACANT HOUSE.
| On an improvised bed in an upper room
| of a vacant house which he owned, at
! No. 2o12 Fifth Avenue, James o. West. a
wealthy real estate operator, was found
dead. from r1lptured heart, at an early
hour Yesterday morning.
How he happened to be in the house
which is bare Of furniture, and away from
mis- family. who live at No. 81 West Forty
ninth Street, is mystery that none OF
| his relatives could solve. The police at
first thought it d case of suicide and that
the selection of a vacant house was pos
sbly suggested by the suicide of Robert
McCurdy Lord; but, according to Coroner,s
Physician Weston, who performed the
| autopsy. death was caused by a rupture
of the heart. '.superintluced by the extreme
agon,- caused by gall stones
POLICE ARRAIGNED.
Never before was a more scathins ar
ragnment of the Police Department made
in a court of justice than that yesterday,
when Magistrate John O. Mott not only
condemned the entire department as 1t
exists under Chief Devery. but severely
| lectured Captain John ". Stephenson. of
the Mulberry Street police station, upon
his apparent neglect OF duty.
The alleged robbery Of q foreigner in
Bowery resort by invegling him into a
gambling game was the cause of 3Iagis-
trate Mott turning upon the police and
Captain Stephenson personally, as he stood
before the bench pleading ignorance OF
| unlawful things that are daily and nightly
occurring in the dives that exist in the
Bowery. II was the Captains own ac
acknowledgement of ignorance of the evils in
his precinct that aroused the wrath OF
Magistrate Mott Captain Stephenson
while he heard himself and the Police
Department denounced.
WILL SUPPORT BISHOP POTTER.
At a meeting of the City Club last night
at its clubhouse, No. 10 West Thirty
fourth Street, the council of the club in a
special report condemned the present police
| administration, and in strongly worded
resolutions arrayed che club on the side OF
Bishop Potter and the clergy of New York
in their crusade against the open vice.
Speakers arraigaed the Tammany ad-
ministration as responsible for the present
demoralized condition OF the CITY. ana
| tod OF personal experience with brotheIs
protected by the police
Wheeler II. Peclsham, president Of the
club. presided A notice sent out nv James
w Pryor, secretary of the counciI that q
! special report on the conc ;tions ~ ,,olfca
administration would be PRESENTED and
that members and Others; who had ner-
! sonal knowledge of the facts were invited
to relate their experiences, served n bring
out large attendance
VICTORY FOR HILL MEN
Great surprise was expressed by Demo-
cratic Leaders here yesterday over the re-
suit OF the hsAI IN the Erie county prirna-
rles IHesI'4E night between Norman E.
Mack, representing Richard Croker and
William Z. Sheehan. representinsr Da,.id
3. Hill The Sheellan faction nr5cticaIIv
swept the deck, eleeting for,y-efght Of the
fifty members Of the new County com
mittee.
This was the first showino, of hands
made by the Democrats of Erie since the
contest over delegates to rho Saratoga
Convention. In that contest tbs Mack
faction gained a complete vfrtory. and
the entire Erie delegation was instructed
for William +. Maclley for Governor. The
sheenaH men, who also declared their in
rention to support Senator Nackey for
.hrst pace, predicted that if Mack Should
win Mackey would gel no bettsr than sec
ond place on the STATE ticket
The course of events at The saratoga
Convention vindicated the Shsshan men
and caused great disappointment among
Erie Democrats. The .sheehan faction con-
tended mat the Mack men had bought
gold brick from Mr. Croker, and they Ge-
cy in the October primaries.
Ihere are fifty members of the General
Committee in Erie, ana advices received
here Yesterday indicated that The anti
Croker faction had elected al ont ;wo.
Inc oheeh ian faction also elected maiocity
OIL .he ae!egates to the County. Congress
slo'lai' senatorial and Assembly Conven-
tons, and viii dictate all Of the local
a