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The evening world., 1906-03-08
JUST ONE SWEAR
MORE FROM MACK

Police Commissioner Bingham made
public to-day the following correspond
ence:
Hon. James F. Mack, Third Deputy Po-
lice Commissioner. New York City.
Dear Sir-I have the honor to request
your resignation as Third Deputy Police
Commissioner. to take effect at the
close of office hours on Saturday, March
10. 1906 Regretting the necessity Of this
action ON my part and with friendliest
regards to you personally, very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
THEODORE A. BINGHAM. Police
Commissioner, New York,
Delivered 1856 A. M, March s.
Under this Is entered on, the book ol
proceedings of yesterdays date Mi
Mack's resignation as follows: ,o,,
Il. A Bingham. Police Commissioner.
City of New York:
Sir: herewith tender you my resigna.
tion as Third Deputy POlice Commits
siOrer. City OF New York. to take effec
Immediately. Respectfully.
JAMES F. MACK.
Then there is a short letter accepting
Mack's resignation.
He lies like a hrrse-thief," is the re-
tort maze to-day by eX-Thrd Deputy
James +. Mack when told that Commits
sioner Bingham had caused entries made
on the official police record to show that
the Commissioner asked for Mack's res
ignation. The entries were timed to the
minute to show that they were all made
befJre early afternoon on the 9Th. Mack
retorted that the record was made UP
daily a 4 O'clock.
"i left for City Hall that morning
TO ask the Mayor to pull down Bng
ing TO see the Mayor. 1 decided t.
quit"
The evening world., 1906-03-08
HAD TOO MUCH
MONEY TO LIVE
IN HAPPINESS
Husband Says Had He
Been Poor They Would
Not Have Separated.

TOO much money was the root OF all
evil in my domestic relations" said
James p. McQuade, of No. 325 Central
Park West. to-day. When I married
my wife she was the daughter of a
boarding house keeper in Philadelphia.
Prosperity went to her head. She's in
Atlantic City now, with two maids to
walt on her and an income of 1888 a
month, yet she sues me for alimony.
If l had been a poor man 1 believe we
would be living together happily"
McQuade. who is prominent in the
affairs of the National Conduit and Ca
Bile Company, had just heard Justice
Garretson in Special Term of the Su-
rreme Court, in Brooklyn, set aside pro-
ceedings thus far held in the suit
brought against him by Mrs. Sarah Nc
Quade, OF No. S25 Madison avenue, Man
haitian. Tie Justice ordered that the
entire case should be reheard in Rock
land County in May. This step was
taken after the defendant stated that
he had never been served with the com
plant in the action. Only a summons
had been handed to MIN, and the trial
had been taken up before Justice Burr,
IN brooklyn. wlInOut mis- knowledge,
wAen ne received oraers tnrougn AltUr-
Aey OsUoIne 10 appear and snow cause
wny ne snUuiu nOt oe compeIieI to pay
aImOny.
Inc husbands side of the litigation
is explained IN part Oy mis- counsel, II.
u. DaCKus. AICSuade says ne lived
nappIy with mis- wife at Their hand
so.Iie mansion IN NyacK at the rate
Jf SiJ,UVU a year, unIn ms SISLsr-.l-
IaN nIVNeu IN. IrOuO.e started rIsuL
away. MCQuaue CANT nome One nlsn.
anu saiu Ins WEES sister must get UuI
or ne would. lie was the one VINO got
OLL. Uut nrst tn-re was u SprIShtly eX-
GlURge OF Ieparlee IN RnILn d meINv
emma bowl nit him on the head, and
another artic.e Of virtu. empIoyed in
lieu OF a vocal 4tOrt, broke seYerA!
Of his ribs. The sister-ln-Iaw also mad
him arrested for assault and battery.
Mrs. McQuaue, 81 ner huSOaAd says
sold the Nyack home nJr $4,000, and
the contents, valued at S3O,OtO. for a
considerable sum. BY the terms Of a
trust deed of his property. drawn in
lsui. lie claims she receives the bulk of
the available income, while he gets only
s2CD a month FIR his personal uses.
Nevertheless. she Graves alimory, and
II Is against her attemnt 10 sScure it
ro---''-' thnt no iz now A~''tinE.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
8O-CENT GAS
PASSES SENATE;
STOCK UNL0ADED
Legislators Send Selling
Orders to Wall Street
Before Voting.
tspselal % The Eve-,lnE worll.N

IL
ALBANY, March S.-The Senate to-
day passed the eighty-cent gas bill by
a vote of A yeas to nays. Senators
McCarren, Cassidy and Coggeshall
voted in the negative.
Every Tammany man voted for the
bill though none of them gave any
explanation for his flop. as did Gard
ener CRepubIican) OF Kings. and KeG-
nan, Of Queens. There was no debate
on the measure. it simply being called
up in its regular order and moved to Il
vote.
wilcox. Republican, of Cayugu, was
the only prominent representative Sen.
ator who led the fight against S0-csnt
gas last year ~ make an explanation.
1t was in effect that while he still
thought 1t unjust to compel the COM
panes to sell at a price which would
leavs them no profits, he bowed to the
will OF the majority.
The five Tammany Senators VINO
voted against the tlll last year-Foley,
Rlordan. Fitzgerald, Martin and Haw-
kins-were Euyej by some of their as
sociat,s as they switched around to-day.
Did you get your orders this year?
asked a representative Senator as Rtor-
din votd for the bill. "If YOU did he's
changed his mind since the last time
1t developed to-day that some of the
Senators, anticipating the passage OF
the bill to-day. have been selling gas
stocks short for the last two weeks. \
big rush OF selling orders were wired
to New York last night.
The State Commission has already or
dered the reduction in the price OF gas
to 50 cents. The Gas Trust Will hght
both projects in the courts.
The evening world., 1906-03-08

amazing. District jerome con-
Quoted an exhaustive Investigation along
this line about year ago. us the result
OF confession made by a prisoner in
the Tomhs.
According to Berthe Claiche. n womb n
Is seldom arrested when shea, has any
money. The passage of a IS bill to Il cor
rupt policeman insures a chance to es-
cape. The women, II they have money.
would rather pav than submit to arrest
AS soon as she is arrested she obll-
gates herself to pay s. to a bondsman.
unless she prefers to remain locked up
over night If she wants anything
while in her cell she has to pay to get
It. A messenger to carry word of the
arrest to the man wtFo ~wrS 1a~ oos's
a dollar. The police court fine is gem
orally S. Some Magistrates make a
practice OF sending old offenders to the
island for six months, and when these
Market or the West Side Courts the
policemen with grudges against women
seize upon the opportunity to send them
away.
Honest Police Rejoice.
Altogether the confession of Berthe
Claiche is a most unsavory arraignment
of certain members of the Police De-
partment. The honest men on the force
are glad that II has been made. They
can be counted on to help drive out the
Abraham Levy will .Nold another con-
sultatlOn with Commissioner Bingham
relative to the Claiche charges to-day.
The Commissioner Is heart and soul with
the Investigation and the. transfer of
twenty three men, some OF whom mad
seen duty in the Tender,oin for years, to
other precincts yesterday shows how
much he Is stirred up.
Berthe Claiche was cheerful IN her
cell in he Tombs to-day.
She has taken the step the Ienuer-
Ioin woman alwa"s fears - taFH-She
has "squealed on the cops" Now, that
she has told what she knows and the
load Is off her mind she Is prepared TO
do all in her power to bring the men
she accuses to Justice.
Berthe's Police Record.
Bertha Claiche confessed to her rec
ord and the confession shows that sit
ting in a trial court was no new ex-
perience to her when she was arraigned
for the murder of GendrOn. Before
coming to this country she was con-
victed of theft In Paris.
On Nov. IS, 1902, she was convicted be-
fore Justice Wyatt. in Special Sessions
in this CITY, OF running a disorderly re-
and sentenced to thirty days on the
island. Policemen Hawthorne and Day
secured her conviction. She was then
known as Bertha Gendron. The French
Consul aided in convicting her because
sho had living in her house a little
French girl named Helene Schott. who
went under the name OF Carmen Gen
drOn.
This girl was a member a. prom
inent family in France and was abduct-
ed for immoral purposes. She was de-
norted bv the authorities after Berthe
Claiche was sent to the island.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
TRAIN WRECKERS
ARE CAUGHT AS
FLYER ESCAPES
Express Near Disaster,
Pulls Up Short, Scat
tering Passengers.
Especial to The Evening worl5, ,

Especial to The Evening WORLDLY
PASSAIC, y. j., March s.-Rushing
at full speed to what seemed certain
obstruction early to-day. the Buffalo
fiier. east bound, on the Lackawanna
Railroad, was by the rapid action OF
the engineer brought to a sudden stop
within a few feet of heap Of iron
girders and stones, placed on tae
tracks by wreckers to derail the cars.
The violent io.t sent the passengers
dying from their seats and berths, a
number suffering shock and brulsers.
All, however. fearful of a wreck
hurried from lhe cars, just in tine to
see the train hands drag four men
from a clump of bushes at the track
side whore they We're hiding, expecting
to see the express smashed.
The men admitted that they had
tried to wreck the train, and were
turned over to the police, to whom
they gave their names as John Bond,
Joseph Bonk, Frank Wllslnzak and
Thomas GaulI, all foreigners. They
were charged with being professional
Ua.n wreckers and committed to jail
without bali.
ACNstNNlNt JtSSG NtAuWSeyt OF HO-
boSen, says this Is only one Of several
attempts 10 wreck The Buffalo express
in this city
The attempt at wrecklng was made
at $50 \. NJ The train was due in
Hoboken at 30. but was running sixty
two minutes behind schedule and
speeding to make up time.
Rushing down from Paterson the en-
ginetr mad the throttle wide open, but
was IN the alert because every engineer
on the road knew that there had been
distractions on the track near this city
several times recently
Near the brighton WoTsted Mills the
engineer 81 hted the obstruction on the
right-hand rail and gave his big engine
the reverse and sand. She ground down
toward the obstruction with the heavy
train of Pullmans behind her. but was
checked u cars length from the heap.
This was found to consist of girders,
fiSn-plates, stones and couple of blocks
of wood. all so arranged that had the
pony trucks struck them the fiangeS
would have been lifted clear of the
sand to one that the engine would have
gone into the ditch, dragging the cars
after it,
Detective Jesse McCamscy. Of the
road, was on duty watching for the
train wreckers, but was further down
the road. At the first shrek of the
whistle, when the brakes were applied,
he started up the track, and as he ran
saw four men break cover between him
and the train. which was hidden behind
a curve. He followed them, and with
the tralnmen, caught them in the
bushes.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
WALDO AS JUDGE IN
JOB MACK CAVE UP
First Deputy, Nervous but
Natty, Listens to Complaints
Against the Bad Cops.

First Deputy Police Commissioner
Waldo sa: as trail judge at Police
Headquarters to-day. The resignation
Of Deputy Mack left the alternative OF
either Gen. B-nghans or Deputy Waldo
hearing complaints.
There were sixty-flve policemen up for
trial. Many complaints were adjourned.
Deputy Waldo was on time at l,
O'Clock. He was dressed in a neat.
fitting blue sack suit and black four
in-hand tie. He seemed to be a trife
nervous.
The first case ,allrd was that Of
Leo Shenheld. OF the West One Humid
redth street station, who was thirty
one minutes late from roll call.
S5enheld blamed it on the alarm
clock.
"4Hything further to submit" asked
Nothing further" replied shenfeli.
Decision was reserved.
James p O'Connor, OF the West
ed with arresting Morris Sabaduski
without cause Several witnesses were
present to testify for the complainant.
"DO you know the accused? If So,
state his name" said Deputy Waldo.
This question had evidently been pre-
pared for he read 1t.
The complainant didn't understand
the question. Then 1t was explained
to him.
The policeman after a long mtxup
showed a letter from Magistrate Jus
tifying the arrest and the complaint
was dismissed.
Sergt. John L Maher was also charged
with having illegally detained Sabaduskl
and failed to give him a receipt for
money and jewelry found on his person.
Mr.. Singer sai1 that when he was
searched in the station-house his money
was taken from him by order Ef the
sergeant He did not get a chance to
first seeshow much he had On the last
mari ofsthe complaint Maher was found
guilty and decision reserved.
Thomas IF. sKealy, of the Traffic
SQUAD was charged with refusing to
give protection to citizens fran strikers
at a building in course of erection at
Forty-first street and Seventh avenue.
Case dismissed
station was absent one hour from his
home when on sick leave. The patrol
man said he was after medicine.
"Tt took you an hour to get y1)ur
medicine did it?" asked MIR. Waldo. "I
and you guilty. Ten days"
second complaint against Ryan was
for failing to raD)rt at the station
house on time while he was on the sick
iiSt ON this charge he got one dav
Tha other cases were un'mportant.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
BUSINESS WAS BAD,
so HE SHOT HIMSELF.
Wife Heard the Report and Found
Margoninsky Staggering
in Room.

Despondent be cause his business was
not going as wei as he wished. Moses
Margoninsky, a paper box manufact-
urer, shot himself to-day in the parlor
of his home at No. $50 Prospect ave-
nue., the Bronx. His wife was in the
sitting room when he walked past her
and into the parior. A moment later
she. heard a shot, she found her hus-
band staggering about the room still
clutching the revolver
He had shot himself on the right side
of the nose. Mrs. ManRQninskv fsLnTed
and was hysterical when Or. Glans
came TO remove the wounded man to
Lebanon Hospital. His chances OF re-
covery are slight.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
FATAL SHOT HITS
THIEF IN FLIGHT
Detectives Caught Two in a
Vacant Lot with $4,000
Worth of Loot.

The stealing of a truck with its
horses and a load worth $500, to-day
resulted in the probable fatal shooting
of one Of the alleged robbers, and tine
arrest Of his companion. The injured
man is Henry Samuels, twenty-five
years old. who was shot in the back
by Detective Sergeant Dugan as he
was trying to get away. Samuel
Schencken. eighteen wears old. also Of
No. III Clinton street, was arraigned
in Essex Market Court.
The truck is owned by Alexander
Robb of No. $40 Ferry street, Hobo
ken, and was driven by Thomas Kelley.
of No. 1853 First street, H1boken. 1t
was loaded with three boxes of linen.
three bales of wooden goods and two
boxes IT bronze gold paint, the prop
erty of John Copstlck, who has a
factory at Monticello, n. j., and an
office at Franklin and Church streets.
Manhattan.
Kelley left the truck at Grand and
Crosby streets, when 1t disappeared. He
notified the Mulberry street station and
the empty truck was found three hours
later at Avenue a and Tenth street
Detective -Sergeants Dugan and Knsler
went TO a vacant lot at NJ. 40S East
Third street, where they found Samuels
and SChenlten loading the goods on Il
wagon. Schencken stumbled and fell
giving Kinsler a chance to grab him.
Samuels was climbing feace when
Dugan ordered him TO halt. Samuels
paid no attention and Dugan fired. The
boy fell in a hear on the other side of
the fence He was taken u Bellevue,
where his condition is very serious.
The police say that Schencken broke
down afterwards and confessed to the
theft and to a burglary on Greene street
n month ago when $4,000 worth of silk
was stolen. The silk was recovered re-
Gently in a warehouse in williamsburg,
but No arrests were made. Schencken' 8
picture is in the R1gues' Gallery as a
truck thief. the police say.
The evening world., 1906-03-08

ftbo Insurance anvestigat9on) indicetei
that the appointed time 20 receive tne
instructions which you requested win
soon be at hand. You viii soon enter
into the consideration OF the evidence
on tba subject yellow Dog funds and
campaign contributions).
I'm the meantime the District-At-
torney, 1 have been informed, has been
directing his attention TO the law on
the subject II he has any authorities
on the subject he wishes 30 submit 1
VIII be only too happy to receive
them"
District-Attorney Jerome replied to
Judge o'Sullivan:
THE legal questions involved are
quite wide in scope. The presentment
the Grand Jury filed wished to know II
the acts assumed constituted larceny,
and II not II they constituted any other
crime. I am having the authorities on
the subject looked up In order to submit
them to Your Honor. think they will
be ready week from to-day.
jerome Needs Time.
'It Will take me, I think, about this
them in the proper form, as prefer to
put them together in such way as to
minimize the work of the court. do
not care to present my personal view
of the law. but the accepted authorities
on the subject; that is, not IN the form
of an argumentative brief, for l have
my own positive ideas on the subject.
But the time has now arrived for
the Court to instruct the Grand Jury
in it's own way"
Judge OSullivan told the Grand Jury
ne would give them fun instructions
on insurance matters a week from to-
day.
After the indictments were handed
In to-day Mr.. Jerome notified his for
me resistant, Mr.. Rand, now attorney
for the Mutual Reserve officers. and
court.
After the cases had been disposed Of
AR. Rand notified the Count that he
had been engaged as counsel by Off
c5ais of the 6tiier insurance comma MES
whose Indictment would be under dis /
cussion, an dasked leave to suggest to |
the Court and Grand Jury what bear |
in gthe law had on the cases involved |
Judge O'Sullivan turned down this |
propesltion with a vehement denial.
Mr.. Rand said to the Court: II have
been retained by persons who are In !
terested In the Investigation Of the |
Grand Jury that Is now under way or /
about to begin. I would like perrnis- |
sion from Your Honor to submit my |
ideas on the law governing the subject |
under investigation"
District-Attorney Jerome said he could |
not stand for any such procedure as 1t
might taint every case under investiga- |
tion. Judge O'Sullivan agreed with the |
District-Attornev and said that he could |
n9t hear of any such Interference.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
GoSLIN'S opal" ARRESTED.
baldwin wanted in Buffalo for
Alleged Get-RIch-Quick
SWIndlc.

When BuTalo's Chief of Police to-
day asked that Charles Baldwin be
arrested, Detective Sergeant MaCon-
willie didn't have much trouble in find
ing the man. He knows Baldwin from
the days when Alfred r. Goslin and
Col. Bob Ammon were fiourishing and
Baldwin was in on some OF their
schemes.
He was arrested at his home, No. 4s
Wtst Twentieth street, and held in
Cehtre Street Court TO await the ar
rival OF detective from Buffalo. The
authorities Of that city accuse him OF
swindllng through "get-rich-quclz"
lphaIpe eonducted there at No. % ELL
cntt Square. Baldwin has an office in
thia city at No, 42 Broadway.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
GERMAN ''BIS AUF"
MEANS PLAIN EXCEPT.
Justice Mccall, After Hearing Many
Experts, Finally Decides
on Translation.

On the meaning of the German word
IBIS auf hangs the decision rendered
to-day by Justice Mccall. In the Su-
preme Court. in a lawsuit over $40. 56S
on contract made between a German
lawyer and his client.
The lawyer, Max Reinach. is dead
and his client, Hans Karl Frost sued
his widow, Theresa Reinach. claiming
which Frost sold the Prtnzen Palais,
In Sclleswig, province OF Schleswig-
IIolstein, Kingdom OF Prussia. inher-
tied by me from my father, and mort
gagged for 10000 marks to Max Rein
ach notary public for 5000 marks and
acknowledges the receipt OF the pur-
chase price bis auf $4,000"
Frost claimed that ibis auf'' means
''up to- and that Reinach had paid
only 5000 OF the purchase price,
Theha were plenty Of "eEperts' from
The evening world., 1906-03-08
MINERS MUST CUT
DEMANDS OR STRIKE.
tspeclal 10 The Evenlng word J

WILKES BARRE, Pa. March S.-Sev-
eral Of the anthracite coal companies
which, confident that there would be no
strike, had placed orders for dynamite
and powder for April delivery have dur
ing the past couple OF days cancelled
the delivery notice and ordered the ex-
This Is additional evidenyo .S.s.. tire
operators expect a strike, a. ~ Ssf-. this
belief has gryWn since the mIne work
ers demands we're received
Before that time few of the operators
believed there would be tlt-up. but
nov unless the miners back down con-
siderably a strike Is taben Il
able, as the mine owners declare eui-
phatleally thai the chief demands can.
The evening world., 1906-03-08
NEW SUBWAY LINK TO OPEN.
Trains VIII Rum to ship Canal on
March IL.

The tirst passenger train will be run
over the section OF the subway between
One Hundred ard Fnty-seventh street
and the Ship Canal. ON the Broadway
division of the subway. on March 12 at
G o'clock A. NJ. The service will be by
shuttle truin running nprbh to Two
Hundred and 1'wenty-first street Stops
will be made at the .Dyckman stree.
station. Two Hundred ara Fifteenth
street station, und Two Hundred and
iFsYenky-frgt street station, where pae-
,aH=aE El.lEa ssgrill % rec vea ana al8chaEad
The evening world., 1906-03-08

the German banks and lawyers Of
tices to. testify in support of this
Mrs. Reinach contended that although
ibis auf' did mean up to" in Eng
lIsh. the ''pD to- in this case was equiv
alent to except"
She exhibited receipts for various
sums paid by her late husband and by
herself as eXecutriX aggregating ex-
actly $4,000 One receipt was DOR "the
balance of $1,000 bis auf $780," A late
receipt was for the Si0O.
Her banker and lawyer and school
teacher experts supported her transla-
tiuns and interpretations, and Cassels s
and Fnegels and other German English
dictionaries were appealed 10. But
Justice Mccall was unable TO decide
with all thds learned but contradictory
assistance whether bis auf' 20 uw.l
in that contract meant that Reinach
had paid only $4,000 of the $1,000 marks
-Sl9 656.25 in Untted States money
purchase price for the Prlnzen Palais.
or had paid all but that $4,000 when he
died.
Justice Mccall finally called in two
conceded experts-Martln Ilsen and
George Won Sl0al They both said that
the Widows contention was right, and
to-day Justice Mccall SO decided, Civ
ing Judgment for Mrs. Reinaoh.
TO CURE A COLD II ONE Day
The evening world., 1906-03-08
ASSEMBLY HITS HAlNES.

ALBANY. March s,-Tbe Assembly
delivered blow at President Hadnes
OF the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals to-day By receiv-
Ing the report of tho Charitable and
Religious Society IN favof y, of the
Franels BILL putting the Heutg Berah
Halnes ssss te-a-
The evening world., 1906-03-08
FILoT COMMISSIONER cHosEN

At d special meeting OF the Chamber
n Cqmmerce this afternoon Vernon II.
ereWa was fe-eIeeted Commissioner OF
Ia4ls Ir., lt1noW'n Wlil serve Tor two
aN his term endln5 March 81 1913.
Aa vote Aaa nnahlmnila FIE
The evening world., 1906-03-08

10 CURE a COLD n ONE DaY
Take LAXATIVE BROAi0 QuinIne Tabiets.
MluEHia.1 refund money IL d fails to cure II
" GROVES Signature on each haE. "a zee
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DIED.
laundry WANre-FEMALg.

IRAgNANN HSFhAN - = - @meNAz asHe.
POSITION OPEN for n good marker and Is
BDrter; no Saturday work. Apply atbqla
Laundry Oakland and Jefferson avea Iei'-
ssy City.
vVANTED-F'lrst-eiaHs woman to wash flan-
nefs and Family Clothes Dakota steam
Laundry, ist ay and l24th st,
VgANTED--Flrgt-claAs shirt starcher at Da-
ltota steam laundry, 1st av. and t24th st.
HELP WANTEp--FERALg.
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