Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28


testified that he himself, at the behest OF
the accompfce, had administered the fatal
dose of chloroform to the old man. me
valet has just been turned loose, gong Scot
free after confessed murder and his &C
complete has already been sentenced to the
chair. An influential young murderer VINO
was for two years under sentence OF oea'h
before his lawyers succeeded In Setung
new trial for him still sits conpialsant1y
in the Tombs nor is it possible by the
most sealing inquir.- to ascertain When
this mans new trial Is TO take place, IL
ever. Lawyers of betting turn VINO APP
pear to know what they are talking about
are quietly offering to bet that II this young
man ever does get tried again for his crime
he will not be convicted.
The wonder is not great, after all, that
New Workers should openly sheer IN pub
lie places at the legal machinery that comes
under their close observation.
Juvenile Artful Dodgers.
The crafty lodges resorted to by eX-
tremely juvenile New Workers to raise the
wind have often been described in this cor
respondence Another of these skillfully con-
ceived schemes was punctured last week
after the tot VINO had worked it with re-
markable success for nearly a month had
been emboldened to try 1t on tribe TOO
often
About a month ago ragged little gil,
a about nine years old, was caught by a POI
Central Park right across the way from
block of houses of exceedingly rich peo-
pie. The little girl was just neiplnS HeF-
self to the flowers in one of the park flow
er beds, nor did she appear to make any
effort to evade the eye of the cop When
the officer grabbed the young one she began
to cry piteously. Clinging tightly to her
stolen flowers all the time she dlon
know that she was doing anything wrong,
she said She told the policeman that she
was taking the flowers for a little sick
girl friend. and she begged hard to be al
lowed to take the blossoms to the SICK
child before being conveyed to the police
station. Her wailings were so piercing that
they attracted the attention of several
wealthy and sympathetic whomen who mad
observed the incident from the windows
of their homes across the way from the
park The women appeared on the scene
in time to listen to the Chiids story. Their
intercessions with the policeman were so
effectual that he released the child. linen
the women asked the child to take them to
the bedside of the sick child. The young
one with the flowers unhesitatingiy did so,
her alleged sick girl friend being found
IN bed in an East Side tenement. The
wealthy women promptly took up col
lection among themselves. with the result
that the child who had been caught stealing
the park flowers was made pretty nearly
hundred dollars better off. the money being
handed over 20 her mother. who claimed to
be a Woodworking Washerwoman. The little
girl alleged to be i'll was also literally
taken care Of
Played the Game Too Often.
Three DAYS later the same little flower
thief played her game again at point far
Their up, and she got away with it this
time too. with equal financial success, so
the police say. Another bunch of wealthy
and sympathetic women appeared and got
her out of the policeman's clutches and
opened their purses generously when the
little girl led them to the bedside of her
sick girl friend. Then the child with the
knowing scheme got to crowding her
demonstrating dates a bit too close, al
though she contrived to work her dodge
with vast success until last week, when a
roundsman who had seen her do it once be-
fore nabbed her and took her to the sta
ton. The police say that the child s mother
profted to the extent of nearly $500 through
the crafty young ones sympathy-nciting
scheme. The child was discharged with
warning in the police court, and there was
a grin of precocious triumph on her little
freckled face when she swept grandly out
of the police court with her artful mater
nal parent.
Disappointed on the American Derby.
There was sad and disgruntled crowd
of ra cling men down at Sheepshead Bay on
Saturday afternoon last when the an
nounCement was made that not one of the
famous eastern equine candidates that had
been sent to Chicago to run in the American
Derby had finished outside the money. 1t
would be hard to estimate just how many
hundreds of thousands of dollars were lost
by New Workers of every station and de-
gree that race Betting on the event had
been in the air for fully month before
the day OF the race. From the shoe clerk
TO the regular racing plunger, all had their
limits down in the future books on one or
the other of the four eastern candidates 1t
was thought to be a 'cinch'' that one of the
eastern thoroughbredS would capture the
great event this year.
There were thousands of fasteners so
confident of the result that they We're will
ing to bet that the eastern horses would
run one, two, three. Heno, Clarence Mack
avs horse the favorite for the event right
up TO post time, was looked upon by most
of these over-confident New Workers as al
most the sure winner. There were thou
sands of others who sent in their commits
sions on Pentecost John Madden's good
colt, while others bet all of their change
on the chances OF Millionaire Feather
stones Arsenal to capture first money.
The possibility of a western horse either
getting into the money or actually win
ming the great American Derby this year
was not even considered by the sanguine
fasteners. Consequently. when a bull
voiced man out at Sheepshead Bay an
nounced through a megaphone on Saturday
afternoon last, just the crowd was gath
ering to witness the last Sheepshead race,
that not a single one of the eastern candi-
dates had cut any figure whatever in the
big race. and that distinctly western horses
had run one, two three, the crowd seemed
stunned that nobody appeared to pay
any attention whatever to the running of
the final Sheepshead race. 1t will probably
be a good many years before the future
books get one-teuth so much New York
money on an American Derby as they did
this year.
Mr.. Cleveland as He Appears Today.
The writer had close view of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland at the famous harmony
pow-wow at the opening of the Tilden
Club last week. Mr.. Cleveland has aged
a great deal since he left the White House
upon the completion of his second term He
is enormously fat, but the lines Of his face
are greatly deepened. His hair has be-
come perilously thin, and his voice. never
of great volume, seems to have become
considerably less full. Nor does he speak
so distinctly as he once did Mr.. Cleve-
lands movements were labOred and he had
a certain pursy feebleness about him that
was observed by those who remembered
his former vigor. At the conclusion of his
address there were many streams of per-