The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-18
SIDELIGHTs OF new YORK
New York CRY. N. Y.
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NEW YORK CTTY, N. i.
William Dayton instantly killed, 9TH
ers of Hook and Ladder Company No.
3 narrowly escaped, motorman arrest
ed and small boy charged with caus-
ing it all is the story of excitement
in First avenue, at the intersection of
Seventh street. Frank Hand, I8 years
old, wanted to see the fire engines come
and turned in a false alarm. Christian
Resmunn, motorman of Seventh street
car, failed to stop according to rules and
there was collision, Dayton being.
knocked from his place against pillar,
his brains dashed out. Both the motor
man and the boy who played the Joke"
are in jail
A remarkable method of earning a
living came to light with the arrest Of
Timothy A. Scanlon, charged with caus
ing the serious illness of Lillian Obri-
eter, zoo Eldridge street, by morphine
poisoning. Both the man and woman
are in Bellevue Hospital, and it is not
certain that either will recover.
| Scanlon, it is learned, has for years
been earning his living by going from
pldCC ~ place administering
| TO victims of the habit who have be-
come too weak to use the hypodermic
| syringe themselves.
William Barber, So East Fourth
street, Flatbush; frantically wringing his
| hands, stood over the still body of Cor
nelius Foley, whom he had just knocked
! down and run over with his automobile.
A surgeon rushed up and caught the
PROSTATE mans pulse.
THAT was devil of bump" grin
ned Foley, sitting up.
'Whatp exclaimed the chauffeur.
Il just pretended I was dead to fool
you," said Foley, gleefully. "Ill sign
off with you for So. Thanks; that's
| the easiest money / ever made in my
life"
| 1t may have been the hot weather, or
| just the crush. Anyhow, in the excite
ment of rush for car at the Man
haitian end of the Brooklyn Bridge, Rev.
| Emil B. Linde, 1874 East One Hundred
and Fourteenth street, ran into Edgar
M. Howell, 267 Ryerson street, and How
ell hit him with his fist. An arrest
promptly followed.
eff this defendant had smitten you on
the cheek instead of the neck, would
you be guided by the Scriptural or legal
phase of the case?" asked Magistrate
Breen.
"The legal" replied the minister, who
had no relish for turning the other
cheek, and Howell was fined ST, which
he paid.
| A young. woman who, answering
request to meet friend on Riverside
drive, went to the place indicated only
| to be instantly shot by the man, has
been identified as Della w. Lyttel, of
Syracuse, by Reginald Smith, of Pater-
son, N. ]. Smith said he had known
the young woman in Syracuse, and that
she left there with another woman named
Graham. The wounded girl refused to
admit that Smith was correct. She sent
note to kid" Mccoy asking him to
call on her, but so far he has not put
in an appearance. She has persistently
refused to give the name of the man
who shot her.
Annie O'Shaughnessy, pretty girl
of 20, is prisoner in the Hudson Street
Hospital, charged with having attempt
ed suicide. Disappointment in love at
fair is given by Miss O'Shaughnessy as
the cause for her act She told the po-
lice that she left her home, at 24o West
One Hundred and Twenty-hrst street,
where she is employed as a servant, de-
termining to end her troubles in the
river. She went down to Chambers
street, where she boarded North River
| ferryboat She waited until the boat
had reached point about 900 feet from
the shore, and then jumped overheard.
Michael Nelson was at work on the
deck of steam lighter and saw the
girl leap He jumped into the water
after her and reached her in time.
With seven cents in his pocket, the
remains, he said, of fortune of half
million dollars, man with flowing white
side whiskers appealed to Commissioner
of Charities Henry Sharp at New Ro-
chelle to be committed to the Westches-
ter County Almshouse.
The old man said he was ]. T. Rape
lee, 81 years old He wore silk hat,
patent leather shoes and frock coat. He
was at one time, he said, a New York