The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-20
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Judge Led a Successful Raid Upon
a Pool Room.
HUNTINGTON RICHES A sURPRIRE
Tax Paid Indicates Valuations of Sew
enty Million Observation-Disclosures
Reid May Represent Us at Cor
onation of kin:: Edward.
HUNTINGTON RICHES A sURPRIRE

Rciu May represent Us ut Cor.
onation of Kin: Edward.
| NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Led in person by
| Judge Jerome, OF the Court OF Special Ses-
| sions, who had issued the warrants, a
| raid was made yesterday afternoon upon
| a poolroom conducted at No. NsDey Street.
| 1t was successful in every way, the room
| being in full operation when the raiders
! entered. OF the seventy-five men present,
who included several prominent politicians,
| only three were placed under arrest.
Warrants had been issued based upon
| information furnished to District Attorney
Philbin by the Tammary Anti-Vice Com
mittee. With Judge Jerome when the raid
! was made were Louis Nixon, chairman df
| that committee, and the District Attor-
! ney.
| Unless there is another unexpected shift
! in the police situation John B. Sexton will
| be appointed Commissioner to reorganize
| the force. This fact was announced at
! Headquarters, in Mulberry Street, last
night after an adjournment OF a secret
| session of the Police Board, which lasted
| three hours and which was attended by
! Chief Devery.
| It is announced on the same authority
| that Chiet Devery will remain in active
| service, having command in the Borough
| OF Manhattan.
| From Albany the announcement is made
| that the police bill wifi not pass the Sem
| ate until tomorrow.
| HUNTINGTON'S WEALTH
| Great surprise was expressed in financial
| circles yesterday at the value placed upon
| the estate of Coils P. Huntington by the
| executors, as indicated by the payment OF
| the Inheritance tax. The announcement
/ ~ L, I~a.1,x :1i- TOD
+! was accepted as fixing the value OF the
| estate at sIc,00oo00. The increase of near
| " s10OO0,OOO, resulting from the recent rise
! in the market price Gf Southern Paclhc
| securities, was accepted us equally true
! While the tax paid is credited upon the
| books Of the Controller as 100000. the
| check which was given by Isaac l. Gates
| for the executors amounted to $780, V9,
| there having been an allowance of i've per
| cent because OF the payment OF the tax
| within six months after the death OF the
| testator. Controller Coler yesterday ac-
| knowledged the receipt elf the check
| 1t was announced among the Republican
| leaders yesterday that Whitelaw Reid IS TO
| be named as Envoy Extraordinary OF the
| United States for the coronation Oh Mtg
Edward VII, which will propupiy take
| place in June, although the exact otite iif''
4 not yet been settled
1
! this country at the Queens jubilee he
/ was a. candidate for the post OF Arnbassa-
| dor to Great Britain after President NC
| Kinley's election -four years ago, otle ms
! arspointment was prevented at thaI tiiiie
! by Senator P!ntt.
FOR NEW POSTOFFICE.
| Realizing that but little time remains
! before the adjournment of the present
| session of Congress in which ACTON may
! he taken toward the passage or plii
! making an appropria ton for new up
| town postottice building il New YORK.
| vigorous and concerted EFFORT is pelns
! made to induce the Committee on Pubic
Buildings and Grounds OF the Rouse u
I Representatives to report the measure
! which has been in their keeping for some
| time.
/ To consider a plan Of action to compel
] thr, committee to move III the matter d
] meeting of the officers of the joint COM
| mittee representing the most prominent
| commercial organizations in this city
! was held yesterday afternoon. me meet
| ing was private, but William McCarroll.
! the chairman, said later that measures
+, had been taken which, he expected,
/ would spur the Congressional committee
/ to speedy action.
DEFENSE OF THE NURSES.
| 1t was evident in the trial yesterday,
/ before Judge Cowing. of Jesse r. Davis,
! one of the three Bellevue Hospital nurses
1 charged with manslaughter in having
/ caused the death of Louis II. billiard,
| on December Is. 1860, that the defense
/ viii be that the patient il the insane
! pavilion died as the result OF vaivular
/ heart disease, aggravated by oyerindtii-
/ gence in liquor.
/ This was shown III the cross eXamina-
/ ton of Edward j. Donlin. a coroner's
| physician, who performed an autopsy on
| billiard $ body, and later when the de-
/ tense opened its case and examined its
| own witnesses. The defendants lawyers
| announced to the court that several
/ prominent physicians would be called as
experts to show that even the fracture
! of billiards hyoid bone did not denote
| that the man had been matreated-
/ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE INSANITY.
| Christian Science, with its theories and
| beliefs. viewed from the standpoint of an
alienist. was the subject OF inquiry yes
! terday before Surrogate Fitzgerald dur
| ing the examination of DR.. Allan Nc
! Lane Hamilton, who was called to tes-
| tify to the mental condition OF Miss
! Helen c. Brush. whose will, giving about
| $4,000 to The First Church Of Christ,
Scientist is contested by her relatives
faith about five years prior TO her death,
and on that account was estrapged from
some the members of her family.
Thus far the evidence given has been
in effect that she believed she was cured
OF consumption by Christian Science, that
she did not take any drugs during her
last Illness. that she believed she could
live even after all the blood was drawn
from her body. and that Christian
Science healers could bring about cures
just as effectively as surgeons but with
out the aid OF instruments
i hypothetical question. embodying
many of the facts and circumstances
given in evidence relative TO the faith of
Miss Brush in Christian Science and what
she had said about it. was put TO the
physician, and he was asked to say what
opinion he formed from these statements
as to the mental condition of Hiss Brush
| DR.. Hamilton said he considered she
was of unsound mind, and became SO
| when she formed the conclusion that
cures could be affected by Christian
Science healers.