Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-07

4 highway robbery was attempted on
a street corner in the heart of New York
and as a result one man is critically and
another badly wounded. Samuel l..
Johnson was attacked by two men at
Tenth avenue and Twenty-ninth street.
Only a block away We're two detectives.
who saw the revolver leyeled at John
sons head while one of his assaiants
robbed him.
Before the officers could get to John
sons assistance he had been beaten to
the sidewalk with a fractured skull and
internal injuries which probably will
cause his death.
The detectives, while attempting to ar
rest the two highwaymen, were attacked
by a crowd of bystanders. apparently
confederates. Police achievements
We're necessary to make the arrest.
Charles Montgomery, one highwayman,
was beaten until unconscious by the po-
lice.
A detective has been found in New
York who can detect. A white eggshell
with a bloody thumb mark on it helped
Detective Lynch of the West One Hun
dredth street station to get his man.
Lynch. i'll spite of having established a
record, is modest about his exploit.
The butcher shop of Charles Lorenz
had been robbed and $12 stolen. De
tective Lynch found some blood drops on
the floor and the smudge of bloody
thumb on an egg. Harry White, clerk
employed by Lorenz, did not go to work
next morning, 50 Detective Lynch hunt
ed him up at his home. He found that
White had "A small cut on his right
thumb. He then compared the lines of
the thumb with the marks on the egg.
They followed each other exactly This
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man, and was sufficient to cause Magis
trate Steinert, in the west side court, to
hold the prisoner in $1,000.
The dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence II. Mackay in honor of the
Duchess of Marlborough was one of the
most carefully prepared and luxurious
ever given ut Harbor Hill, the Mackay
country seat. near Roslyn. /. |.
Fifty guests were present although
many neighhorS came in later to hear
a concert by Nathan Franko's Metro
politan Opera House orchestra. The or
chestra played throughout the dinner.
and later the musical programme in
cluded new compositions, with Il few old
fayOrites. There We're six numbers
which had never been heard in America
before One of these was by Glinka
The villagers of Roslyn took great in
terest in the dinner The Mackay es
tric lights and the natives journeyed to
the iron grill and looked in. Many of
the guests sat on the wide veranda. The
concert was held in the massive hall
which is after an old English baronial
manor.
The story of lively poker game
which broke up i'll a row on board the
big German liner Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse was told by Isaac Somers. a
wealthy New York wholesale liquor
dealer. at the landing of the vessel
The game started the third day out"
said Mr. Somers. Several millionaires
played, hut | do not care to give their
names. After playing for several hours
the game suddenly terminated when one
of the players said he had been insulted
with the game" hastily added Mr.. Som
erS.
among the well known people who
returned on the Kaiser were Commodore
Elbrdge T. Gerry, Mrs Gerry, and
their daughters, Angelina and Mabel;
Col Pomeroy Colt, who won fame in
his 3O00-mile auto journey through Eu-
rope; DR. Franz Jung of Washington
Mrs. Cooper Hewitt. Judge Alfred
Streckler. and Mrs. Streckler.
New York university began its seventy
fifth year with the opening of the school
of pedagogy. DIR. Luther II. Culick di-
rector of physical training in the New
York city schools. spoke on The De
cline of Physical Stamina in the Chill
dren of the Cities" He pointed out that
the general opinion has been that the
men who do things in this world come
from the country. and that the country
boy is better equipped in health than
the city boy.
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past because the country boy received
better food, breathed better air. and had
varied exercise i'll chores that were part
of his daily life. Again, the city boy
was under Il constant nervous tension,
which tended to expend the child's en-
ergy.
But the factors are changing and i'm
proving" continued DIR. Culick. ''The
child of the city now averages even a
better chance for good health than his
country cousin. He gets better food
than the country boy. and III our day of
inspected milk. the milk of the city is
even pGrer than that of the country
Il would advocate the use of our
recreation piers as Fairgrounds, On
these piers we could build Fairgrounds
twenty stories high.
The religious criminal is the latest
to make his appearance III New York,
and he bids fair to Guido thieves of the
gentlcmanly Rallies" type who have
recently fattened their purses from the
contents of New York apartments For
each of his victims he left 4 note. in
which he eXhorted them 10 shun ali
evil. not to lead others into temptation.
and 70 forgive their debtors Each note
contained a warning that if his advice
were not followed the recipients surely
would suffer from the fires of purgatory. |
This thief's most recent victim was Mrs. |
Aline Lock. who lives on the fourth /
floor of $50 East One Hundred and Sew
enteenth street She went out shopping |
When she returned an hour later she I
found her flat had been entered by /
means Of skeleton keys and jewelry and /
silverware to the value of 800 taken. |
On a table she found this note:
Dear friend: Follow this advice and /
lead not into temptation; keep away /
from sin; forgive your debtors, and /
above all don't neglect your church I
duties. If YOU follow this advice your /
soul shah be saved: if not, it will burn /
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