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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
HOOKER TRIAL BEGINS TO-DAY.
Plan OF Procedure VIII He Adopted and
Then tho Justice VIII File His Answer.

ALBANY, July 9.-To- morrow Supreme
Court Justice Warren B. Hooker will be
brought before the Legislature to answer
to the charges OF conduct unbecoming a
judicial officer. The Legislature is to meet
at " 30 o'clock. Each house will convene
separately at that hour and adopt the plan
of procedure and the rules Of practise to
govern the trial, for 1t Is understood that
Justice Hooker will insist upon a trial
At 1 O'Clock the two houses will meet In
Joint session and Justice Hooker will file
his answer.
While it is thought that the trial will
occupy the entire week. still the outcome
is a matter Of considerable doubt. Justice
Hooker refuses to resign and consequently
1t will be necessary to go through the mass
Of evidence that was produced before the
Assembly Judiciary Committee 1t has
been stipulated that the testimony taken
before the committeee shall be read.
1t is said that Justice Hooker will cab
witnesses in his behalf. but members Of
the State Bar Association do not believe
that he will Before the Assembly Ju-
dietary Committee the only witnesses that
men of Dunkirk, who were put on the stand
to show that the rental demanded for the
Dunkirk post Office building was not ex-
cessive As that matter will not come up
at this trial the Justice will not be called
upon to show why the rent for that build
ing was increased from 81 200 to 1000 in
aide OF a wear.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
SUICIDE HAD WEDDING CARD.
Man who'd Registered as Bergman Dead
in . BOwery Hotel.

A man who had in his pocket an invita-
ton to an East Side wedding committed
suicide In the Puritan Hotel, 1873 Bowery,
yesterday. He came into the hotel about
8 o'clock yesterday morning and asked
for a room.
what name please?" said the clerk.
-Oh, put down Mr. Bergman. was the
reply Anything will do He was
sent to room on the third floor.
About 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the hotel Waterman smelled gas and traced
it to the room of "Mr. Bergman" He
climbed in through the transom and found
Bergman" lying undressed on the bed,
dead. The invitation read, in Hebrew
and English: You are invited by Mr. and
Mrs, Lifshitz and A. Raminovsky to the
and LYMAN Raminovsky, Monday, July
10, at P. NJ, at Grand Central Palace.
GOES Clinton street"
The bride was found at her home, 1855
Rivington street last night, making decora-
lions Tor the wedding She said that she
had heard Of the suicide through the police
but could not place him.
"A good many invitations have been
given out, she said, land he might have
got one through a friend. He is not one
of the invited" Miss IIifshitz said she
had no jealous lovers and Raminovsky no
rivals.
Business cards Of NJ Warshel, 2e4 Cherry
street, were also found in the dead mans
effects and entries in a memorandum book
indicating that he was at some time col
lector for Warshe, He was about 30 years
old. feet inches tall and wore dark
clothes and black shoes.
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Amateur skipper q stranded sappho
Finds Them Heavy Wading Ashore.

Finds Them Heavy Wading Ashore.
Old baymen at East Morichee. L. J.,
told the tale yesterday Of the catboat
Sappho, that went ashore Saturday on
Bills bar with cargo Of two summer girls
and foxy amateur sailor Of Brooklyn.
Yachtsmen down that way have been
bothered the past week with fogs that drift
out of nowhere and spoil their reckoning,
Saturday, Stanley Tower OF Brooklyn,
who Is staying at Centre Moriches, took
out Miss Nellie Cullen, daughter of Thomas
Cullen OF Brooklyn, and Miss Eleanor
Green, also OF Brooklyn. In his sailboat
Sappho for a spin 1t was bright and sum
shiny when they started. On their way
back the fog came and spread grayly over
the water.
The girls made light Of 1t and warbled
'The Isles Of Greece, where burning Sappho
loved and sang In compliment to the
boat. Tower was q bit worried, but he
didn't show It to the girls. He steered
toward the noise Of the surf. hoping to
strike the beach somewhere, when a bar
doomed out Of the fog.
SITS all right. girls, called Tower. That's
Reeves Island, and It's only q mile from
here to the Center Moriches Beach.
The Sappho bumped and stuck on Bits
bar. There she stayed fast and hard.
Here follows the tale Of an old bayman,
told with great glee.
"And do ye know, Bill, that young Teller
said nothin' He jest kept still and waited
bit. Pretty soon the ,gyurls, got skeered
and he shook his head and looked pit
serious. He joked EN- about their weight,
and when he found that one weighed no
and the other 90, he looked kind OF pleased
like.
81 think can save you said he. very
grave like.
oh, how7' said the gyurls.
''1'll have TO carry you through the stormy
waters says he.
"They drew straws to see which should
60 first and ITO pounds got the short ono
He picked her up and wnded ashore ed On
back and got the other one and carried
her to land.
He told me that he guessed they gave
their city weight said their country weight
must be a lot more; grinned like all pos
sessed. Oh, he's smart one.
The Sappho was got of Bills bar intact
at high tide Saturday evening.
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81 FINE FOR EACH OF HIS NAMES.
And . Dollar Added for Running, Made
Five,

y am Alvin Wilhelm Oscar Neybolm,
and am Swede and proud of It'll announced
q clean shaven, neatly dressed young man
about rs years old in the Coney Island police
station early yesterday morning. Now,
don't you laugh, or III duck out
In spite OF the warning the sergeant be-
hind the desk and the two officers who had
brought the young man in on charge of
intoxication laughed and the happy Swede
started on run for the door. He sue
ceeded In eluding the pursuing officers
for hundred feet, but was captured and
again arraig ned to have his pedigree taken.
II suppose | shall be compelled to pay
81 for each of those names, laughingly
remarked the prisoner,
And one for running away" declared
the sergeant.
Five dollars or five days, laid Ma gis-
trate Voorhees, In court later. and Neybolm
still happy and In nowise sore, winked at
the officer who had made the complain =,
paid his fine and started for the nearest
gin rickey in town,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
HELP THE SCHOOLMARMS, A. C.
Aren't They ~ Worthy AZ Professors, Pitts.
burg Teachers Ask.

PrTTsBURo July 9-The public school
teachers Of Pittsburg have decided that
II Andrew Carnegie can afford to donate
SO, 900 900 to form fund for superannuated
professors Of colleges he can just as easily
afford to lend helping hand to the under
paid schoolmarms after they have reached
such an age that they will no longer be
desirable az teachers
With this end in view, the teachers Of
Pittsburg met yesterday and appointed
Miss Emma Maroff committee Of one to
go to Scotland and lay the matter before
Mr.. Carnegie at Skibo Castle. Miss Marof
will leave here late this month. She will
be armed with letters of recommendation
from DR.. W. J. Holland and Prof. John A.
Brashear, both of whom think we'll of the
scheme. The matter was first placed be-
fore DR.. Holland with a request that he
intercede for the teachers. but he advised
that one of their number had better see the
Laird personally. He said he thought he
could be Interested, although he added
that Mr.. Carnegie likes to originate his own
philanthropies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
News OF Plays and Players.

James X Hackett yesterday engaged
by cable w j. Ferguson for the role OF
the Marquis of Stepfnton in his forthcom-
ing production of The Walls Of Jericho"
at the Savoy 1heater, Mr.. Hackett Is now
in Paris, but purposes returning In about
two weeks. He will bring with him the
models Of the entire stage settings Of 'The
Walls of Jericho"
Richard Golden was engaged yesterday
by Henry W. Savage to play the principal
part in the new George AIDE comedy -lhe
Bad Samaritan" which will open the Gar
Golden will assume the character Of Isaac
Gridlep, whose efforts to be philanthropic
are always misunderstood by unapprecia-
tive friends
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
BURNED IN CONEY FIRE SHOW.
Five Peri Ormers Receive Serious Injuries
In Q Back Draft.

Five men were seriously burned last
night in the 'New York Fire Fighters
show at the Bowery and Jones Walk, Coney
Island. The show exhibits New York's
Chinatown with a fight among Highbind-
ers, and a fire breaks out which Is quenched
by fremen. The injured men were sta
toned In one of the houses. The flames,
instead of pouring out Of the window. were
driven into their faces by back draft.
1t is said. They were burned about the
face and body and inhaled the flames.
Their names. as secured by the police. are
Ernest Williams, Michael Clancy. John
Egan and Henry Fitzgerald The ffth
man g name was not learned
The burned men were treated by DIT.
Hall Of Sixteenth street and Surf avenue,
who happened to be in the audience, and
we're then hurried to the Coney Island
Hospital. DR.. Clay, In charge, said that
their facilities were not adequate to treat
the men and they were driven on to the
Kings County Hospital at Flatbush.
Charles Mccarthy, who managed the
Fire and Flames show in Dreamland last
summer. is running the Fire Fighters. Sen
ator Frawley and Alderman Dietz are his
partners.
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Engine and I'VE Cars Nam Flfty Foot Int
. q COrnneld.

Engine and I'VE Cars Nam Flfty Foot int
Q Cernneld.
INDIANAPOLIS, July drumming at the
rate OF seventy miles an hour, the New for.
fast mail train on tho Big Four Railroad
oollided with = freight train at Oakaia'
five miles west OF Greencastle, at l:40 O'CLOCK
this afternoon, and though the engine
mail cars and passenger coaches were
thrown from the track and ditched not
passenger was injured by 30 much as
scratch. Fireman Tippy Of the passenger
train and Engineer Garner were both injured
the former fatally. but these were the only
casualties, though the train carried more
than a hundred passengers.
The trains had orders to pass at Oakalla,
where the freight was to take the siding,
and Station Operator BARLEY went to din
ner. leaving the signal blocks down.
thus giving the passenger an open track
to Greencastle. The freight was running
on close time, and when 1t reached the
siding the operator did not respond to the
whistle and turn the switch. few min
utes were thus lost In taking the siding
and when the freight had partly left the
main track the passenger turned q curve
200 yards away.
Tho engineer and fireman saw that
collision was inevitable and they put on
the emergency brakes and jumped Gar
ner cleared the train. but Tippy was
caught under the engine and for two hours
suffered terrible agony until released by
wrecking crew.
When the passenger train struck the
freight the engine left the track, carrying
the mail and passenger coaches with 1t,
and lunged out into oornfield for dis
lance Of fifty feet before 1t and the train
went over into ditch.
The passengers scrambled out as fast as
they could, expecting to see awful de-
struction of life, but we're agreeably SUR
prised to find that not one OF the many
passengers had received a scratch. They
attempted to release Fireman Tippy. but
he was pinioned under the engine. and
nothing could be done till the wrecking
crew arrived. Engineer Garner said the
safety Of the passengers resulted from the
fact that the collision was side swipe.
and not a head-on meeting Of the two
trains
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
GIRL IN TOMBS FOR MURDER.
GERDRON'S CLUB SAYS HIS MONEY
Is MISSING.
Had Lot Just Before He Was Shot Dead
in the Hands Of the POLICE, and When Ho
Went to the Morgue Had Only = Dollar
Bill and Nickel In His Pocket

Berthe Claiche, the young'French girl who
on Saturday night shot the man who she SAYS
lived on her earnings xii ing hi n as ne
was being taken to the police station
to be locked up on charges preferred by
her. was arraigned before Coroner Scholer
Yesterday and committed to the Tomls
prison without hail charged with murder
In the first degree. BY advice of counsel
the girl refused to make any statement
but in reply to question she said that the
night passed in the police station was the
happiest that she had known for five years
She broke down when the prison doors
closed behind her.
The body Of Emil Gerdron, the man she
killed, was removed from the Morgue yes.
terday to an undertaker's on Seventh
avenue near Thirty-frst street. Arrange.
ments for the burial were made by the
French Club, an organzati ton in West
Twenty ninth street to which Gerdron be-
longed. An elaborate coffin has been pro.
vided and Gerdron's funeral on Wednes
day will be an affair of elaborate mourning,
Thirty coaches are provided for. The in
terment will be at Cypress Hills.
The French Club. which Ia said by tho
neighbors to be composed largely Of men Of
Gerdron's class Is stirred up over the alleged
disappearance Of about 500 and diamond
stickpin from the dead mans body. On
Thursday Gerdron sold for $3.50 the contents
OF the fat in West Twentyeighth street.
where he had lived with the Claiche girl.
He went to the races on Friday and, his
friends say, won $50.
He is said by French gambler to have
received $3.50 more on Saturday. Two
hours before he was killed he was drink
ing in the French Club and showed over
$500, according to the statements Of sew
eral club members
He also wore a diamond pin worth about
500. After the body had been examined at
the West Twentieth street station, 1t was
sent to the Morgue with one-dollar hill
and five cent piece in the pockets and
two rings on the fingers.
When delegation from the French Club
and the undertaken visited the West
Twentieth street sta ton and inquired what
had become of the money, the policemen
who had made the search said that nothing
but the dollar bill and the other small
effects had been found. Detectives Mar
tineau, Morton and Bilafer who arrested
Berthe Claiche, say that they did not touch
the body.
The club has been in existence for ten
years, has a clubhouse four stories high
and deliberately furnished with bar and
other accessories. The respectable folks
of the neighborhood are raising money to
have the Claiche girl defended by a good
lawyer. They say the police have never
molested the club.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
STRIKE ON ANTITRUST JOB.
warning Unions Tie Up Work on the indie.
pendent Abatt0ir.

Work on the new abattoir Of the New
York Butchers Dressed Meat Company.
at Eleventh avenue and Thirty ninth street
is tied up by a strike, due to fight between
two unions. The company made an appeal
to the unions, they reported yesterday, to
settle the dispute.
The company is composed ofindependent
butchers who are opposed to the beef trust,
and their abattoir, while not as large as some
In other parts OF the country, will be the
largest In New York. James Armstrong.
business agent Of Electrical Workers Union
No 3. which Is involved in the strike, said
yesterday that committees had been ap-
pointed which will probably settle the
trouble this week
The row is between the steamftters'
union and Diamond Phil Weinseimer's
old organization. Plumbers Union No 2.
as to which shall put in some of the hot
water pipes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Body Found on Bath Beach,

The unidentified body Of man was found
In Gravesend Bay of Bay Eighth street
Bath Beach, last night. The man was
about 40 years old, feet inches tall, with
red hair and smooth face. He wore gray
checked trousers, but no coat, shoes
or stockings. On the third finger of the
right hand he wore a silver bowknot ring,
and gold signet ring was on the third
finger of the left hand. There was also
silver watch and chain attached to which
was coin on which was engraved the
initials IS. M. h The body was taken
to the morgue. =,
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ministration circles been aroused as they
have been over yesterdays disclosures
The scandal is believed to have run back
longer than was brought out In the report.
and no doubt is expressed that there VIII
be an even moro thorough overhauling
OF the division having charge OF crop re-
ports than is indicated in the statement OF
,Secretary Wilson
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
DIR. BROOKS IS CAUGHT.
Ex.Superintendent OF Uniontown Schools
Arrested In Liverpool.

ATTc0tCu III LlNcTpOOI.
UNIoNrowN, Pa, July 9.-'Brooks
arrested" were the words Of a oablegram
received at noon to-day by Sheriff Kiefer
from the American Consul at Liverpool,
England, referring to DR. H. F. Brooks,
ex-super,ntendent Of the Uniontown schools,
who is wanted on charges Of larceny and
embezzement Steps have been taken
to secure the necessary papers and 1t Is
expected that Sheriff Kiefer and County
Detective Alexander MoBeth will leave on
Tuesday for England to bring Brooks back.
The arrest Of Brooks was brought about
in remarkably quick time and all through
his having written to Washington, D. c.,
woman. Bess Montgomery. urging her to ac-
company him to Paraguay. Though In his
letter to the Montgomery woman Brooks
stated that the more public money in his
hands was s2,422.9A, it IL believed that he
had much more than that, as it is stated that
he secured money on promissory notes and
otherwise from people in uniontown, Con-
nelsville and Mcke"port.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
FISHERMAN FOUND DEAD.
Supposed to Have Been Killed by Trolle
Wires,

The unidentified body Of a man was found
on the ash dumps on the West End Mea dows.
near the Coney Island Creek, yesterday
morning by the crew of a dirt car on their
first trip after daylight. The man was
dressed as though going fishing, and carried
a rod and fishing tackle, bait and basket.
He was found at point where many wires
cross and where the feed wires are more OF
lees exposed. From the position OF the
body it was thought he had died from shock.
Ambulance Surgeon Clay Of the Emergency
Hospital, Coney Island, refused to give an
opinion as to the cause of death and Coro-
ner's Physician Hartung will make an
autopsy to-day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
CAR COLLISION AT CROSSING.

One Woman Hurt and Two Surface Lines
Blocked for An Hour.
southbound Third avenue car collided
with a westbound Fffty-ninth street car at
1870 O'Clock last night and the passengers
in both cars got good shaking and scare.
Miss Minnie Karp of SO Columbia street
was riding In the Third avenue car. which
was an open one. and her head was bumped
so hard against one OF the posts Of the car
that che needed the services OF an ambu-
lance surgeon.
The Ffty-ninth street car was a closed
one and number Of window panes were
broken In It, The Third avenue car was
derailed and one Of the wheels was broken.
Both ines were blocked for an hour.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
RACE ROW AT A HOTEL.
Max Hollheimcr Says He Was Sighted
Because He's . Jew.

After row on the veranda Of Martin
Rauscher's hotel at Coney Island yesterday
evening Max Hollheimer lawyer of Lewis
and Vernon avenues, Brooklyn. was arrested
and taken to the Coney Island police station
charged with disorderly conduct.
Hollheimer said the row started over the
hotel people refusing to servo him because
he was a Jew. He protested. he said, and
he refused to go Rauscher called a police
man and had him arrested.
Rauscher denied that he refused to feed
Hollheimer because he is Jew. He said
Hollheimer was noisy .....t.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Shot In Quarrel; May Die.

Edward Mannion OF A4e West Twenty
eighth street was shot at midnight last
night, by George Thompson of SAT West
Thrtieth street, in quarrel. Mannion,
Thompson and Frank Blow, who lived
with Thompson, had been drinking, They
were sitting on Thompson's stoop when
Mannion called Thompson a liar, Thomp-
son pulled a pistol and shot him in the
breast. The police arrested Thompson
welt Hospital. He is lt<ely to die.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Charles Darius Rogers Death.

DENVER, COL, July s.-The body Of
Charles Darius Rogers OF Troy, N. Y. who
was found dead in his room yesterday,
was to-day sent to his father, J. d. Rogers,
at Round Lake. N. Y. The Coroner says
death resulted from an overdose of COM
pound spirits Of ether, taken to produce
sleep after protracted spree.
Rogers was a United States clerk for the
Third district Of Alaska during Cleveland's
second administration.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
p.n,e, webster, Cousin Drowned.

SANTA CRUZ, Cal, July s,-Mrs. Charles
Gray, who was drowned near Boulder
Creek, was formerly Mrs. Amanda Monks,
a famous Confederate spy during the re-
bellion. Mrs. Gray was over 90 years old,
and had lived in the Santa Cruz mountains
for thirty years. She was "A first cousin of
Daniel Webster
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
S. OUT or HIM. ANYHOW.
Pocket Picking Episode Varies Proceed
tngS in Court.

A report reached Magistrate Steinert In
the Yorkville police court yesterday that
a saloonkeeper, while sitting among the
spectators In court, had had his pocket
picked Of 500.
When the man missed his money he made
an outcry and Detective Byrnes Of the
East Sixty-seventh street station arrested
Henry Shapiro, who was among the speota
tors. The detective told the agistrate
that he had once before arrested Shapiro
and thought it likely that he would know
something about the missing 500.
There was no evidence, however that he
knew anything about it and the saloon
keeper himself disappeared without giving
his name. Shapiro made a sinful fuss
when he was arrested and he was fined IS
for disorderly conduct.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Considine's Lung Is Healing.

Word was received yesterday from the
Adirondacks, where John r. Considine,
proprietor Of the Hotel Metropole, has been
seeking health for the last few weeks, an
nouncfng that an operation performed last
week by DR.. Hartley Of the New York
Hospital, by which an absoess was removed
from his left lung. had been eminently sue
cessful and that the patient was rapidly
improYinR
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
NiInneh aha SIgnuied.

The Atlantic Transport liner Minnehaha,
from London was reported by Marconi
wireless at o'clock Yesterday afternoon
sxty-five miles east of Nantucket light
ship. She probably will he up to her pier
about o'clock this morning.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10

Ovsf feet In.
my store devoted to dif5efeht sam.
pies Of Office furniture that Can be
used for Offices, libraries and com.
mittee rooms.
Every kind-from the simplest
desk and chair all the way to the
most luxurious Directors table in
mahogany. Only the finest material
and guaranteed workmanship 60
into the furniture in my store, with
fair prices. too.
CHARLES E. MATTHEWS,
as Canal ST. door East OF Broadway.
Telephone 1899 Spring.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
XII, Ell nv Fa,, From window.

Mrs, Catherine Donnolly. 80 years Old
of 3s7 Baltic street, Brooklyn, put her head
out Of the window of her home on the fourth
floor Yesterday to get skirt hanging on the
clothesine. She was anout to g. to church.
She fell to the yard and was killed,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10

Valuable Painting Stolen At Tho Hague.
Special Cable Despatch TO The SUN.
THE HAGUE, July 9.-At about noon
yesterday valuable picture by Franz
Halls was out from Its frame and taken
from the Art Gallery here. There is no
trace Of the thief, A large reward Is offered
for the painting. 1t Is a portrait OF man
with broad collar
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
so ARRESTS AT FORT GEORGE.
Police Try to Put n stop to DlsOrderly
Conduct There.

Inspector Sweeney started in to clean up
Fort George yesterday. He took a dozen
plainclothes men to the resort and stayed
there all the afternoon nabbng every
man that didn't Lebave. BY midnight last
night fifty arrests had teen made. Most
of the prisoners were charged with dis
orderly conduct.