The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-08
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Exciting Runaway on Return From a
Funeral.
MANY INQUIRE AFTER HOBsoN
George Henderson Played Ghost to
Brighten His Daughters Into Stay
in. at Hnmc-Broker Took 4
Blow i'll the Face as Play.
MANY INQUIRE AFTER H0Bs0N.


runaway Of team of spirited horses at
tuched to coach in Paramount Cemetery,
near Newark, after the burial of William
C. Hayes. They were Harry Walker.
William Putnam and two young women.
Their rescue was due 10 the bravery and
strength ot Peter Bey. assistant assessor
OF TIE Newark Tux Board.
There was an unusually large attendance
at the liayes funeral nearly ali OF the
mouruers following the hearse to the
, cemetery i'll coaches When they were
about departing after the burial, the
Summing OF ii coach door frightened the
horses attached to the coach containing
Walker. Putnam and the two women
They started Off wildly. the driver being
thrown from his seat as he was about to
pick up the reinS. Down Il steep Incline
III the wide cemetery path the team sped,
tho coach rocking from Side to side. the
women screaming and those WHO were IN
other conches or had not yet lett the
grave expecting to see The occupants
dashed out
Several loaded coaches were in the path
of the runaways. The drivers heard the
warning shouts and pulled their horses
out OF the roadway and across burial plots
to places of sufety. In Il wagonette We're
Peter Bey. John MaIaren and four, other
men, pnllhearers. They got out and wait
ed for the. approaching rllnaways The
coach. in rounding curve. was almost
upset and for some distance rode tilted
two wheels.
GREAT DARING
Then it settled. and while it WIS swing
ing from side to side Walker threw open
one OF the doors. balanced himself on the
step and. with great daring and agility.
ar q this .i-rer'S The
reinS were buckled together bnt were
dragging tho ground Then he climbed
down on the pole between the horses and
moved along toward their heads
As he seized bride and was about 20
swing astride of one OF the horses he
slipped and fell He did not fall to the
ground, but landed astride the pole and
chung to it. BY that time Bey was near
the frightened horses. AS they reached
him he sprang 70 their heads, caught one
of the brides with his left hand and ciung
to it, although he WIS pulled off his feet
and dragged along by the runaways.
Bey is an old time athlete. but his arm
was nearly pulled out OF joint before his
weight on the bride caused the horses to
sIacken speed, and McLaren, who had
slipped and missed his reach for the
horses. caught the other bride in the
nick of time, and the team was brought
to standstiil.
Walker was lifted from his dangerous
perch on the POLE unhurt except for sew
eral bruises One of the women in the
coach had tainted and Putnam was hold
ing the other to prevent her from jumping
out The horses and coach We're not hurt
and the only injury was to the driver.
When the runawayS started and he was
thrown off the wheels of the coach passed
over his legs, and he had to be taken
home for treatment
TJORSON POPITs
Lieutenant Hobson was resting easily in
the Presbyterian Hospital last night. l..
the afternoon he had short talk with his
uncle. Richmond Pearson. representative
from North Carolina, who came from
Washington to see the patient.
DR.. Russell BeIlamy called on The Lieu
tenant morning and evening, But tlSre
was no consultation OF the attending ply
sicianSs, as DR.. ". Gilman Thompson was
out of the city. Both the doctors feel TINT
the Lieutenant is progressing as Savo-a5iy
as they could desire. The crisis of the
fever Will not be reached for soma days.
although knew Lieutenant Eiotson
was popular man IN the estimation of
the public" said DR.. Bellamy last night.
Il never realized how high ne stood Until
now You would be surprised at the num-
Der of letters 1 have received, and teie-
grams. too, asking me to advise she sign
ers as to the I.ieutenant's exact c0udi-
ton.
Il fear these persons viii deem me most
diScourteous, for SO many of II ese mes
saSeS have come to me That ii would take
al my time to reply to them fee, that
they VIII get the desired information from
the newspapers"
PLAYED GHOST
Because his three daughters were in
clined 70 go out nights in South River. n.
j., few miles from New Brunswick,
George Henderson, fifty years old, essayed
to play Ghost in order to brighten them
into staying home. His attempt was dis
a-strous.
Stories Of an apparition had been told
in Southi River for several weeks, and
many timid women became alarmed at
the repeated assertions OF young girls, who
related uncanny tales of ghost who
moaned Go home! Go llome." The young
men OF the village were finally charged
with getting up a prank, and the older
citizens laughed at the tales.
Now the sheeted figure was said to
haunt the dark lanes near Washington
Park, and body of young men, headed
by Ellis Van Hise decided to so on n
ghost hunt. Accordingly, just as the last
strains OF dance music died away at the
park at midnight Wednesday the young
men. armed with clubs and revolvers, scat
tered about the fields
After half an hours watching the ghost
hunters We're becoming tired, when a
young couple sauntered along a dark street
and a wierd white figure suddenly rose near
them from a clum of bushes. The young
woman nearly swooned, and the apparition
was gliding away when the ghost hunt
ers sprang from all sides and siezed the
figure in white.
The ghost" begged for mercy, and when
his white robes had been torn from him
his captors were astounded to recognize
the we'll known features of Henderson. a
highly respected citizen. Henderson ad-
mitted that it was he who had been
frightening the South River girls, and
explained that he had done so because ne
wished TO frighten his daughters into stay
ing home.
The young men talked of horse pond
ducking and thrashing. but upon Hen
derson promising to use some other meth
DDS, he was allowed to go
NETHERSOLE IN COURT
Miss Olga (Nethersole's face was covered
with black lace veil yesterday afternoon
when she sat in the office of Referee
Francis c. Canine and explained her bust
ness relations for two years with Marcus
Mayer. The pattern of the lace hid her
flashing eyes. but occasionally she be-
trayed annoyance by squeezing the dainty
fur wrap which she held In her hands.