The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-16
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The Police Shake-up Develops Into
Earthquake.
| LIFE BOAT DID NOT RIGHT.
One Of Party Of Thirteen Drowned Because
the Patent Boat Didn't Work as Ex-
pected Horses Head, With Bride
On, in COURTROOM.

NEW YORK, March 15.-That police
s!lake-up has developed into an earth
quake such as the department has not
known since the Reform Board was re-
placed by the appointees of Mayor Van
Wyck. gays the Herald. Commissioner
Murphy transferred five captains yester-
day. after having made four transfers
Tuesday and tour more on Wednesda3.
The end is not yet
More transfers. and important trans
fers, are to be made to-day and to-mor-
row There are rumors of charges
against four captains who have com
s,nanded downtown precincts which have
been marked by open gambling.
1t has been known for several days that
Captain Chapman would return TO the
I'crderloin.
DID NOT RIGHT.
\ so-called self-rishting lifeboat which
was being tested by United States COY.
ernment officials III the East River yes
terday tipped over with thirteen men IN
it and failing to right itself one OF the
thirteen Was drowned.
III was Il 35-foot boat built by the
American Motor Company. which has an
office at No .2 Broadway. The Govern
nlent has. been making tests OF several
patent lifeboats for use in the army
L
one of its boats over to Pier % on We'd
ncsday to have it tested. Captain a. ID.
Northr,,p. superintendent of the marine
department of the transport service. mas
had charge OF these experiments ana at
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon he ordered
the new boat tested in the slip along
side tho Government pier. Inc boat
looks very much like an ordinary me
boat. the innovation consisting OF num-
her of air tanks OF large size tore ana
ait and smaller ones in the bottom. Whlc1
according to its inventors MADE IL most
difficult to caDsize the boat ana also
served to right it quickly when 1t mas
been turned over
SLEPT In TIL; PARK.
:. Young woman fairly we'll dressed
and decent looking. went INTO the fast
F,jcntv-cishth Street Police Station yes
terdav morning and told Sergeant Bryan
that she had had nothing to eat for forty
eight hours and that she was starving
She locked as if she was telling the truth.
She was apparently very weak and there
was brllise over her right eye Inc
Girl told this story. which investigation
showed was not altogether true
., am Nellie Clifford, 90 years Old. Oh
No. $50 East Forty-seventh Street l
o,IarreIed with my father two days ago
and then left home forever nave oeeh
sleeplng in the park. had no money
and there were no friends that | could
90 10 under the circumstances. | have
not been able TO get any work ana would
not beg.
Five mourners in a funeral coach on
the way to Calvary Cemetery narrowly
escaped being ground to pieces yesterday
afternoon when the team attached 10
the coach took fright at an approaching
train and breaking through the gates OF
the Sortl, Shore branch OF the Long IS
land Railroad in Borden Avenue, LohG
Island City, ran into the locomotive OF
an incoming passenger train
Both horses were killed, and one OF
the inmates of the coach. Mary Ware
il wears old. OF No. 211s Eight! Avenue
New York City. was taken to st. Johh
Hospital in Long Island City. suffering
with a broken jaw and other INJURIES
THRASHED WIFE, IN STREET.
Norman r. Coward. of No. 256 West
rwenty-siXth Street, WHO described him
self as the editor Of q wall paper trade
qualifications saw his wife. who LETT him
a week ago. enter a store on Broadway
Yesterday lie followed her in, and seiZ-
ing her by the arm. dragged her out anc
down Broadway, beating her as they
went. A crowd of shoppers looked on II
amazement but did not interfere. Ihe
woman's cries at last attracted police
man and her husband was arrested II
the Jefferson Market Police Court later
the woman said that he had made hel
life uncomfortable and that she could moi
live with him Magistrate Hogan put tbs
man under $500 bonds to behave for six