The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-11
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Committee of Fifteen Preparing For
Coup.
ORGANIZED BAND OF F0RGERS.
Arrests Made That May Result In
Breaking the Gang Up-Hoscrs
Locomotive Works May Re.
sumo Work.
ORGANIZED BAND OF F0RGERS.


yesterday that the Citizens Committee
OF Fifteen is preparing Il coup which, If
carried to success, will create nothing
short of a popular sensation 1t IS pro-
posed 10 take advantage OF the work that
mas already been done and which may be
done by the Tammany Anti-Vice Com
mittee, and 10 push it to that legitimate
conclusion wtrieEl members of the Com
mittse Of Fifteen believe that the Tam
many Committee will not dare TO at
tempt.
With this purpose in view. information
concerning the protection OF vice and
crime is being obtained and carefully
prepared. Wleu the proper time comes
a broadside viii be fired which viii as
touish those vito may not know what is
coming, and which will result in the in
dictment OF men now prominent in both
political parties
Specially engaged investigators, trained
detectives brought to New York from Cal
cago and other large cities, are now at
work gathering information for the Com
l.1ittee of Fifteen. These detectives have
obtained access to those gambling clubs
that have heretofore escaped successful
prosecution. They are now welcome WISH
tors iii the popular uptown gambling
houses Their evidence is being rassed,
and IS beirg transmitted to the commit
tee through the agency which employs
y t.
the members OF the Committee OF Fifteen
know the detectives they have employed.
FORGERY CHARGED.
Some memoranda and cipher notes that
came into the possession OF Captain TITUS
have led to the breaking up OF what he
believes TO be organized band WSlch
has been flooding the country with frau
dulent notes. Two men-James Delaseil,
residence refused. and Charles H Gard
ner of No. Is West Sixteenth Street
occupied cells at Police Headquarters lest
night. accused of completely III the
s'windle.
CAPTAIN Titus thinks he has evidence
sufficient to convict them of forgery. He
saws he believes them to be members of
a band which has obtained thousands of
dollars by disposing of forged notes
throughout the East and West. The Cap
tain believes that the news OF the arrest
will cause scores OF complainants to ap-
pear against them. lie expects to make
other arrests.
ROGERS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS.
There is a possibility that the Rogers
Locomotive Works. in Paterson, \. j.,
NAV be, reopened next Week. 1t Is SAID
that Jacob S Rogers, tired of present
negotiations to sell t:le works. will open
them again, and that his nephew, Viii
liam Rogers Will be manager
The old corporation has been dissolved,
j d
stock of the other holders. Inc AFFAIRS
of the corporation have been wound up
If the works open on Monday as Is con-
tidently expected, Jacob S. Rogers VIII
be the sole proprietor
Several of the head men N some oil the
departments have beeen around 10 see
their men and told them not to leave
Paterson, Tor there was something ~
prospect.
1t is said that # Mr.. Rogers opens the
shops it will not he with the intention OF
managing them for g long time out
rather That he may sell them to a greater
advantage 1t is also rumored tnat ME-
Sloan. q son Of Tie, former president oi
the Lackaw wanna, Is likely to associate
himself with Mr.. Rogers
RANEY IMPROVES
John Eaney, one of the two old men
who are taking the glycero-phosphate OIL
sodium treatment. shows marked signs
of Improvement. Special care ana the
daily injection Of sixteen nlinlms OF a al
luted solution of the caemlcaL nave great
ly assisted him in his struggle against
the infirmities of old age His step IS
elastic compared to what it was before
the treatment was begun, ana ms appe-
tite is very good. He takes abundant eX-
ercise and seems to look upon lie from q
different point of view. 1t is believed that
the treatment will result n rejuVenatinS
him.
Henry W. Beerman, who is eishty-three
wears old fourteen years older than Ran
ey is not now showing Improvement his
temperature has risen slightly
Two men were probably fatally injured
and half a dozen others more or less cut
and bruised, in an explosion yesterday IN
the GreenDoint refinery of the Standard
Oil Company, at MeseroIe and kiussland
Avenues The two men who suffered
most were Patrick Dooley thirty-tWo
years old, of No. 80 Norman Avenue, ana
James Hoolihan, thirtythree years Old OF
No. 81 briggs Avenue. Both were badly
burned and We're removed TO the VII
liamshurg Hospital, where it was SAID that
night there was small chance of their re-
covery.
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
Dr. Spencer Franklin, of No 336 West
Thirty-third Street has brought suit for
absolute divorce against his wife, Grace
Franklin, naming as correspondent Dr.
Virgil c. Reynolds who is said to be
United States consular agent at Lacebia,
Honduras.
Mrs. Franklin, through her lawyer.
asked Judge Dickey yesterday for counsel
fee and alimony. Her lawyer said that
DR.. Franklin had induced her TO run
away from boarding-school with him
when she was only sixteen years old. be-
lieving her to be an heiress.
George Baird. wholesale oyster dealer,
and his wife were found dead from gas
asphyxiation in their apartments DIT No
45 Sumner Avenue, Williamsburg, yes
terday morning. T:le gas cocks We're open
and all the windows We're closed tightly
a sister of Mrs. Baird, Mrs. kiilaIee, told
the police that she believed her sister had
closed the windows and opened the gas
cocks in a temporary tit of insanity.
brought on by grip
Baird was fifty-six years old and his
wife was sixteen years his junior They
had been married twenty years and Mrs
kilalee said that their married life had
always been happy.