The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-24
FRESH GOSSIP
FRON GOTHAM
Colonel Murphy Determined to Fish
Vice in Every Form.
MARQUETTE Met BAD WEATHER
MET BAD WEATHER.
Lost Two Blades Of Her Propeller and
HAD to Be lowed In-Woman
Captured Man Who At
tempted to Hob Her.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-Colonel Michael
c. Murphy, besides his brief statements
of his intent made at the time of aSsum-
ing office as Police Commissioner, made a
more elaborate and detailed statement or
his policy at his home last night, says
the Herald. He empnatically asserted
that he means to seek out the pool-roomS
and close them, to trace down gamblns
and suppress it, to search out any piach-
mailing or corruption in the Police De-
partment and punish those guilty OF 1t,
and to put down vice wherever 1t may
show itself publicly. Fe expressed his
determination to win public approval by
the manner in which he would discharge
his duty.
Colonel Murphy spoke significantly of
the restrictions of the Office to which he
has appointed former Chief DeverE, now
first deputy commissioner. He read the
section of the statute that gives the pow
ers of transfer and removal solely to the
Commissioner He said he favored army
discipline for the police, and he showed
plainly determination to have his orders
carried out.
Bearing on this point a friend of the
new Commissioner had this to say: Col
onel Murphy expects Il fight and expects
opposition from his subordinates, ana Is
prepared for both. He will fight
PROPELLER BROKEN.
Preceded by the Manitou. of the same
line, which had towed her a good part of
the way across the ocean, the Atlantic
Transport steamship Marquette arrived
Yesterday with two blades of her propei-
Ter broken off. The racing of the screw as
the steamship pitched in a heavy sea IS
believed to have cause the accident.
With thirty-seven passengers, the Mar
quette sailed from London on February
It'll in command of Captain T. F. Gates,
carrying a light cargo and riding high
on the water. She met stormy weather
from the start, and the propeller being
near the surface it was partially or
wholly uncovered nearly every time the
steamships bow dropped into the watery
hollows. At such times it would race il
such manner as to threaten to destroy
ship and machinery.
Neil *. Maclean. the chief engineer and
his assistants kept a constant vigil, not
knowing the instant when one or all of
the blades would be torn off. If the lat
ter occurred it would almost surely de-
stroy the engines if they We're not stopped
in time.
MADE KNOWN BY VIBRATION.
The first blade was broken at half-past
one o'clock in the morning of February
18th in latitude As north. longitude 3S-40
west. 1t was instantly made known from
the vibration in the steamship.
Everybody was awakened, but no alarm
was felt. The engines We're slowed to les
sen the vibration, and the Marquette con-
tinued on her course. The second blade
broke off at ten o'clock the next morning.
Both had been torn from the same side
of the propeller. Haed they been opposite
blades the accident would have been less
serious, as the remaining two blades
would have balanced each other and by
driving the engines faster the steamship
! could have come on at fair Speed but
! as it was the speed was reduced to SIX
miles an hour. and even then the Dig Ses-
sci was shaken from end TO end.
CAPTURED THE FOOTPAD-
Mrs. John Baker, of No. 60 Ridgewood
Avenue East New York, is strong and
not easily frightened.~and on Thursday
she succeeded in capturing a man Whom
she accuses of being a footpad-
According to her story, she was passing
down Euclid Avenue, Brooklyn. with her
pocketbook in her hand, when stranger,
who later gave his name as DaFld
Cohen, caught her by the arm and tried
to grab the purse Mrs. Baker, however,
held or to her money firmly, and Cohen
then threw his arms around her neck
and tried to choke her.
Mrs. Baker forgot to scream at this
juncture and, throwing her arms around
her assailant. began to choke him also.
For a time it looked like wrestling
match, with Cohen getting the better of
it. but the woman suddenly found her
voice and began to scream.
Cohen tried to escape then, but Mrs.
Baker held on frantically, and Alexander
Taylor, Il mounted policeman, of the
Liberty Avenue Police Station, heard her
screams. galloped up and relieved her
Of her capture. In the Gates Avenue
Police Court yesterday Cohen, who is
twenty years old, was held in 5000 ball Tor
the grand jury.
WOULDN'T ROB a PRIEST.
Love for the church.. to whose tenets
in some dim way the man probably still
clings, prevented q mysterious stranger
from robbing priest of Paterson, n. J.,
onetcold night recently. and the reverend
father, falling i'll soon afterward the
repentant highwayman has called each
day to inquire as to the patients cor
dition.
Father Anthony H Stein was awakened
by a messenger a few minutes after mid
night one morning several years ago.
and was asked to so to a certain farm
house miles away and administer the last
rites Of the church to q dying man.
The night was bitter cold, hut the priest
dressed and started in the direction indi-
Gated.
tie soon lost his way. however and.
iloundering along in the chilling wind
was held up by an intoxicated man, who
demanded money Father Stein was
about to comply, when the stranger no.
ticed that his victim was a priest
Chevalier of industry no longer, the
man at once prayed to be forgiven, and
to show his true repentance asked that
he might be allowed to show the spiritual
guide the road to the house which the lat
ter sought. Father Stein accepter his new
found friends plotting and together they
tramped four miles to their destination.
CARS SMASH TOGETHER
Apparently through misunderstanding
of signals between motormen, two cleo
trio cars crashed together at Forty
second Street and Sixth Avenue at 6
o'clock last night, causing block on
both lines for nearly two hours The
cars were badly damaged and several
passengers We're cut by flying glass from
the shattered windows.
The Forty-second Street car bound west
reached Sixth Avenue as one of the Sixth
Avenue line on its way TO Harlem