The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-01
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
Three Cable Cars Run Amuck on
Lexington Avenue.
HAMBURG THE GREAT SOLD.
Purchased for w. c. Whitney for Sixty
Thousand Dollars = Sexton Re-
sponsibie FOR Deyercy's Dis
obedience OF Orders.
HAMBURG THE GREAT SOLD.

tfSAluStUu ttftHut Cdi SOliiS uDtOWu Ss1uSHl
in q loose strand OF the cable at Thirty
seventh Street last night and three rear
! end collisions followed in as many sec
onds. The grip that caught was on car
/ No. lG1, in charge of Gripman II. Viseri-
| He could not control the speed OF the car,
! and it smashed into car No. 164, which
was only hail a block ahead and standing
| still for q woman to get off. The two cars
/ then went on together at full speed, the
| one ahead being pushed by the one that
| was caught, and both gripmegl were help
/! less.
/: At Thirty-eigllth Street the runaway
! tandem cars ran into un Adams Express
| wagon that was going up the avenue on
| the north-bornG track and wrecked 1t.
! Richard Sullivan, the driver of the wagon.
i and Michael. his helper. were both thrown
| off and badly cut and bruised. The wagon
| itself was Ewelit from the track and the
two cars Went on up the avenue to Thirty
| ninth Street, where they banged into a
| third car, No. $50.
| Then the grip Of the rear car became
u.lsengaged from the cable strand, and ali
| three cars came to q standstill, while the
| conductor went through them to get q
! list of the casualties. Besides the two
| men on The express wagon. dozen or
| more pcrons had been injured. Most of
them were passengers Un the second car.
| GtoRGE HELD Ut.
| Soon after the performance of My Lady
! Dainty began at the Madison Square The
atre last night two women and a man
| took their stand in front of the theatre.
! They soon attracted attention, as it w.ls
| showing hard and the only other persons
| in sight were a. few cabmen.
| AS soon as the first Lot OF theatregoers
| had come out, the two women left the
/. man and mingled with the crowd They
] followed a mum and blonde woman, who
] were in the van of the crowd, toward
| Broadway.
| The man and woman who had been i'm
| side the theatre turned south on Broad
F.! way. When they were in front of the
| entrance Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the
| two women who We're following hurried
| led to them The tall excited woman
grabbed the man by the coat collar.
| George, you william, YOU scoundrel,"
she shouted at him. what do You mean
| by going with this woman? Who is she?
! You told me you were going to work.
| The man addressed as George became
very much excited. The blonde woman
! who was with him freed herself from
| him, but did not run away. y constantly
| increasing crowd surrounded the excited
| group und laughed at them.
The man implored sadie not to create
a scene The blonde young woman ut
| last seeing an opening in the crowd
dashed through it.
! I'm going to see where she goes, cried
| the woman called Sadie, and ran after
| hcr.
| At the Twenty-third Street crossing she
| caught the other woman and showed her
| from the curb The blonde young woman
! did not stop, but jumped aboard an east
| bound Twenty -third Street car. sadie"
| was left behind. George lodged around
| a. co,rpe of cabs and caught the car foi-
! lowing.
George" yelled the crowd ntter nun,
| where are you going! why uoli W"
! wait?'' But he did not stop.
| The man who had been waiting outside
| the theatre with the two women joined
| them then, and they walked out 1-rousii
| Twentv-third Street and took a nofth-
/ bound Third Avenue trnin
| They went to No 2l3 East Fiity-eiShth
| Street. Asked through the Wqndo" Will
| the trouble was about, the shorter "o1ila'i
| shut it angrily and turned cut 'he iisii''
| in the flat.
TWO SONS TAKEN AWAY
| Two Young sons of George W. Alien, OF
| the Southern Hotel, st. Louis, We're taken
| away on Saturday from his Tine place III
| Bayard Lane, Princeton. opposite GroVer
| Cleveland's place and adjoining the KEY.
| DR.. Henry Van Dykes. Their mother,
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brother, Thomas Allen, Sd, Yale man Oh
| 'qS. came and got them while she was
| away in Boston. She is now at the flIth-
| Avenue Hotel. and has got writ OF
| habeas corpus to get them pach nc
| Younger boys are George Walton Holhef
| Allen and Whitelaw Reid Allen. iheS
! are to be produced before Justice bischoii
| to-day. The mother said in her afhdaFlt
| that she recently left her home TO go 10
| Boston intending to remain put u uaN'
! but became i'll and had to protract her
| visit When she got home, she says siie
(! found that Thomas had taken away the
+! Younger boys and she says that he mas
l since refused to disclose their where
! abo1lts or to let her communicate with
| them The writ was obtained through
| Lawyer Norway Williams.
| The son Thomas is living at board
| ing house at No 46 East Twenty-first
| Street. where the other boys are sup
| nosed to be. He would not talk about the
! case Yesterday. He acted under lnstruc-
! tons from his father in st. Louis
! TOOK CHLOROFORM.
! About noon yesterday woman, VINO
| appeared to be about twenty years old'
| registered at the Park View Hotel as
| Mrs G. Patterson, and went Immediately
! TO her room Less than two hours after
| ward according to the story OF the clerk,
I! she screamed, and servants or the hotel
| went Immediately to see what was wrong.
+, They found that the woman had APP
! parently attempted suicide by chloroIorn,
| and they called q physician III the hotel!
| The woman was sent to Flower Hospital.
+, 1t was seen there that the result of her
| attempt was not likely to be serious, and
! about o clock she was sent to Bellevue.
She refused to give any definite inforna-
| ton about herself
a letter of which the police took charge
| was addressed '.F'--. care of +. Man
| chester. 100 East Eighteenth Street" 1t
| told the person to whom she was writing
! that since she had known him she had
| been absolutely true to him. that he
! knew it, that she had not been at ali in
| innate with Tom Moneaux, and that her
| correspondent knew perfectly we'll that
+. the whole trouble between them had
! been made by his family. She said that
| he had known that she had fulfilled all
the duties OF a wife. and that she loved
! her little "Putsey'' beyond measure She
! told him also that as he was better able
to care for "Putsey" than she was she
| hoped he would look after the child and
| finally marry it to some one with money.
At Bellevue a man called in the eve
ming to see Mrs. Patterson. He de-
| scribed himself as E. J. Patterson, and
! said that he was q brother of the woman
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