The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-08-17
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ers of Hook and Ladder Company No.
3 narrowly escaped, motorman arrest
cd and small boy charged with caus-
ing II all is the story of excitement
IN FIRST avenue, at the intersection OF
Seventh street. Frank Hand, rs years
old. wanted to see the fire engines come
and turned in false alarm. Christian
ReSmunn. motorman of a Seventh street
car, failed 10 stop according to rules and
there was a collision, Dayton being
knocked from his place against pillar,
MS brains dashed out. Both the motor
man and the boy who played the coke"
are in jail.
A remarkable method of earning
living came to light with the arrest of
Timothy A. Scanlon, charged with caus-
ing the serious illness of Lillian Obri-
ctcr, 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, ii is learned, has for years
been earning his living by going from
place TO place administering morphine
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
Apelius Foley, whom he had Just knocked
s. >2wn and run over with his automobile
frgeon rushed up and caught the
Rate mans pulse.
lat was devil of bump" grin
81 Foley, sitting up.
Whatp exclaimed the chauffeur.
just pretended I was dead TO fool
you" said Foley, glcefully I'll sign
| off with you for s.. Thanks; that's
the easiest money ever made in my
life"
1t may have been the hot weather OF
| Just the crush. Anyhow, in the excite
ment of rush for car at the Man
haitian end of the Brooklyn Bridge, Rev
Emil p. Linde, 334 East One Hundred
and Fourteenth street, ran into Edgar
! Nj. Howell. 267 Ryerson street, and How
| ell hit him with his fist An arrest
promptly followed
IF this defendant had smittcn you OH
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 81, which
he paid.
A young woman who, answering a
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
a note TO kid" Mccoy asking him 10
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 'Shaughncssy, a pretty girl
OF 20, is a prisoner in the Hudson Street
Hospital, charged with having attempt
ed suicide. Disappointment in love at
fair is given by Miss 'Shaughnessy as
the cause for her act She told the POI
lice that she left her home, at 40 West
One Hundred and Twenty-firSt 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 a 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 a 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, a man with flowing white
side whiSkerS appealed to Commissioner
OF Charities Henry Sharp at New Ro-
chelle 10 he committed to the Westches-
ter County AlmShouSc.
The old man said he was J. 7. Rape
lee, 82 years old. He wore a silk hat.
patent leather shoes and frock coat. He
was AT one time. he said. a New York
broker and the head of a house in Wall