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CASWELL-MASSEY 60. FAILS.
Receiver VIII Keep the Six Drug stores
Open for tho Present.

The Caswel-Massey Company, druggists
at Fifth venue and T~wenty-fiRth street,
with branch stores at Broadway and Thirty
first street, in the AstOr House. at Broadway
and 1O6th street. at 125th street and lad
son avenue and at 257 Sixth avenue, is in
financial difficulties and late yesterday
under a petition in bankruptcy filed against
IL Judge Holt OF the United States District
Court appointed Horace E. Deming receiver.
fixing his bond at 500 600. Tho petition
in bankruptcy was fled by James Cochran,
attorney FOR these creditors: National
Cigar Stands Company, ss,OsS for cigars
sold. OF which o. sac is secured by a demand
Endorsed note Of the company; Frank NJ.
Prindle & Co, S20l. and George e.. Voorhees,,
o. money loaned. 1t was alleged that the
compan is insOlvent and on November 3
admitted its inability to pay It's debts.
Attached TO the petition is a statement
OF john J. McEntee, secretary, that the
treasurer submitted a report of the financial
condition OF the company to the directors
yesterday showing liabilities OF s244, 600 IN
assets at n fair valuation OF t2t6,0OO. The
directors thereupon adopted n resolution
that the company IL insolvent in tina the
aggregate OF its property Ia not at a fair
valuation sufficient TO pay the debts n that
the company is willing to be- adjudged bank
Judge Holt authorized Mr.. Deming to
continue the business at the six stores for
twenty days with the privilege of extending
the time on consent OF a majority in
of creditors.
W. r. Malonsy, Jr., attorney for the COM
pany, said that the company is doing a large
business at all the stores and attributed the
trouble TO the general condition 9th money
market.
The business has had no rating at Brad
utrPaffa HOr aQyGrRI 4anFSa nAat IL vWna a.
tabltahed in 1879 by Casw ell, Massev n Co.
and was Incorporated ON April 10, 1908, as
the Caswell-Massey Company under New
York laws with n capital stock Of $500 900,
Of which t25O,OOO is preferred and $3.50 600
common. George c. Lyon of Providence
was president and William M. Massey vice.
president. The store under the Astor House
was opened about a year ago and had TO
meet the competition OF several other
established stores in the neighborhOod.
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FORGERY, SAYS A
Asking the Court to Bmpeund MAe wOed's
marriage CertIticate."

Justice O'Gorman in the Suprsme court
reserved decision yesterday on an applica-
ton by counsel for United States Senator
Plat for ar order compelling Mae c.. Wood.
who is the plaintiff in a suit for divorce
against Senator Platt. TO leave permanently
on file in the County Clerks office tho mar
riage certificate on which she baae8 her
claim to be- the Senator's wife. and a letter
which she says MIR. Plat wrote her aOknoWl-
cdging her az his wife.
Counsel for Mr.. Plat denounced the Ger
tidcate as a clumsy forgery, and insisted
thu IT. was necessary to have the paper on
file so that % the trial the senator could be
able to establish his allegation that IL is a
forgery. Mr.. Platt also denies that he
ever wrote any such letter as is now on fils
in the County Clerks Office, carefully
guarded. however, from public view.
The certificate has been photographed by
Senator Piatt's counsel. and the photo
graph shows that it certifies, over the name
OF the Rev Edward ". Rioe, to the marriage
OF Thomas Q. Plat and Nae Catherine
Wood az the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Novenn-
Der q. 1901, two years before the Senator
married Mrs Janeway. his present wife.
Lawyer Lee, for the Wood woman. pro-
tested that the Senator'S counsel had had
ample time to examine the letter and GER
tiiicate and that the photographs taken
hould be enough evidence Of the mature
OF the papers, without compelling the
plaintif to leave the papers on file indsf-
nitely. The plaintiff, said Mr.. Ice. required
the originals urgently, so that they may be
submitted TO experts who will attest EheiT
authenticity.
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JOHN n. WALSH ON TRIAL.
selection Or q Jury - Try Chicago Bapk or
Begun In u. n. Court.

CHICAGO. Nov. 12.-The selection Of a
jury to try John r. Walsh, The banker and
railroad man who IL charged In an indiot-
ment OF 100 counts with wrecking tho
Chicago National Bank. began in the United
States District Court this morning before
Judge Anderson OF Indianapolis.
The jury box was filed when court adj
jOurned, but five of these men may be re-
tired by ~peremptory challenge. The To-
ernment used n of its three challenges.
All ths twelve men are either member
OF or attendants at some Protestant church.
The rather interesting question AZ 10
how the jurymen reRarded the financial
situation brought from each of the twelve
men the reply that he did not hold any
prejudice against the banks md that no
did not expect any hank to pay all its
depositoTS at one time.
Unusual interest attached 20 the court
scone to-day. Every available inch OF
space in the room wnS taken. Walsh
came into the court room without creating
the slightest furry.
The defendants lawyers are John 8.
Miller. William j. Hynes. Merritt starr,
Samuel Rhamill. Edward {. Ritcher and
Louis r. Hart.
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WORK ON AMBROSE CHANNEL.
About 81 Per Gent. Completed. the Head
Army Engineer Reports.

WASHINGTON, Nov. l2.-Brig.-Gen. Alex
ander Mackenzie. Chief of Engineers, in
his annual report to the Secretary Of War,
made, public to-day, say that about SIS per
cent. OF the work on the Ambrose Channel
has been completed. Up TO July 1, 1907,
the Report said, o.. ,s2O had been spent
on this project in building two dredges TO
Garry on the work and In e~xcavating 20.-
SOs,Ol4 cubic yards OF material. The outer
part OF the channel for II 900 feet In length
has been dredged 10 a DEF tn Of 20 feet, with
widths ranging from $500 to 600 feet, anda
cut Of % feet depth has been made 400 TO
1000 feet wide through the rest OF the AM
brose Channel.
About IS per cent. of the work OF i'm
proving the East River by removing tho
distractions from the Battery TO Throggs
Neck had been completed. the report said.
Up TO June 30 last 70, Iel .7es had besn spent
on this project. h available funds will
be applied TO making a reeurvey OF the
ledgss Of rock neal the Manhattan shore,
in completing tho removal OF Pot Rock in
He'll Gate aud in removing parts Of Frying
Pan, Middle Reef. Shell Reef and the Battery
and south Ferry reefs.
The project for a channel 100 feet wide
and fifteen feet deep In the Harlem River,
from the Fast River TO the Hudson, is about
81 per cent. completed.
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AUTOPSY SHOWED POISONING
PRUgSEC ACID APPARENTLY
KILLED NATEAN WESTHEHMER.

PhySlcSan whs Was Called m Thought nc
WAS Q Case % Ap0nl6xy-Dea0~ MAN
was VAce-Rrenldent % the NSrdlAngcFs
Charlton Fireworks Co. and Wen Go DO.
Nathan Wsstheimer. vice-presidenS OF
Ehe Northumberland Fireworks Com
pany. at i4S West Broadway. was found
dying early last evening In his bedroom In
his brownstone house at 100 West Seventy
seventh street. Df. Charles z. simmons OF
7a2 Madison avenue. who was huTrtedly
summoned. got TO the house just as Mr..
Wosthcimer died. He reported the case
TO the Coroner's Office ~ one OK apopleUy.
An autopsy later i'm the evening showed
traces OF prussia acid. Coroner Hamburger
sent his physician, DR.. Philip O'HanIon. 10
the Westheimer horne 20 investigate. Or.
0'Hanlon reported back asking the COroner
TO make "a thorough inquiry himself.
Coroner Hamburger found Louis Nord-
linger, Mr.. Westheimer's b~rother-in-law
and president of the fireworks company
there with Mrs. NOrdlinger. Mr.. NOrd-
inger said that the cause Of death JAS
given by DR.. Simmons was probably COR
rect and that Mr.. Westheimer had no reason
for taking his life. .
Katie Lippold. a maid. told the Coroner
that she went to Mr.. W~estheimer's o at
o O'Clock and asked him when he wanted
dinner. Mrs. Westbeimer was out at the
time. Mr.. Wsstheimer said he didn't want
any dinner. The maid went to the room
later and found him on the bed. fullydressed
and unable to answer whens she spoke TO him.
Mrs. Weetheimer came in just then and
n was Informed OK her husbands SON
dition. Mr.. simmons wac sent for. but got
to the house too late.
Coroner Hamburger searched the room
and found a glass that had contained some
liquid. He then ordered DIR. 0'Hanlon 10
perform tho autopsy, to which both Mrs.
Westheimer and Mr.. N~ordIinger raised OBJ
lection. When DIR. O'HanIon found traces
OF enough pnissic acid to CAUSE death the
vital organs were removed and sent at nee
10 Prot. Eugene HOdenpyl Of Columbia Uni
versity tor a chemical and microscopicRl
examination.
After the autopsy Coroner Hamburger
called up DR.. simmons and said he would
have the physicianbefore him for examina-
ton. DIR. simmons replied that ne was
perfectly willing 10 undergo the e1Rmina-
ton. The Coroner notified Lieut.. Quinn at
tlo West Sixty-eighth street station house
that the case ought also to be looked into
by the police.
Mr.. Westheimer was we'll 10 do. Besides
being vioe-president and director Of the
Nordlinger-Charlton Company he was
director OF tho New York and Honduras
Rosario Mining Company and the Standard
Consolidated Gold Mining Company.
Early this morning tho police found in q
locked dresser in MIR. Westheimer's room
"a cake Of cyanide Of potassium from which
q corner had been broken.
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LECTURE on NAVIGATION
Delivered by Commander G'rosIey Admiral
Goodrich Speaks.

The first OF a series Of lectures on navi-
cation and nautical science, arranged by
Prof. O.. l.. Poor Of the Astronomical depart
ment OF Columbia University in coopera-
ton with naval officers and officers Of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey. was given
yesterday afternoon in the large lecture
room of Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia by
Lieutenant Commander w. y. Croeley Of
the navy, at present attached to the Brook
lynn navy yard. Prot. Poor is a yacht owner
and n member of the New lork Yacht Club.
and II was announced that the lectures are
for the benefit If yachtsmen and others
interested in navigation, in addition 10
the students of Prof. POor's department.
There were about three hundred persons
present. a large majority Of whom were
beyond middle age. The audience looked
like a convention OF stock brokers.
Prof. Poor introduced Rear Admiral
E.. r. Goodrich OF the Brooklyn navy yard
TO make the Introductory remarks. Ad-
miral Goodrich said that navigation wac
easy n that any one who could read the
face of a clock and Use the -four primary
processes OF arithmetic ought to be able
to learn bow to navigate. He said that
owners OF yachts especially. ought TO learn
how to navigate their vessels 40 as to keen
tabs on the shippers they employ and to
know really what was going On.
Commander Crosley had the tonic Dead
Reckoning and Coastwise Navigation
He told how to figure out longitude and
latitude and explained how to get bear
ings and 10 figure on danger angles, and
went az length into the teChnicalities Of the
subject.
Among the yachtsmeu who were present
were Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Secretary George A. Cormack Of che New
York Yacht Club, W Butler Duncan, Rob-
ert A. Tod, Seymour J. Hustled. J, D. Spark
man. G. W. Hall. c. W. Lee. Commanders
}. u. j. Kelley, retired. of the navy; Lieu
tenant-COmmandsr r. II. Leigh and Lieu
tenant-Commander McCann Of the navy.
The next lecture will DO on November 10.
on "The Bottom VI the Sea and Its Uses In
Navigation Mr.. CrOsley will give IT,
Other lectures in the course will be given
by Lieutenant 4 Commander Leigh, Prof.
Poor. DIR. r.. A.. Harris. DR.. l.. A. Bauer.
Prof. Hallock and Capt. Howard Patterson.
These lectures will deal with deep sea
navigation, the sun and its motions. the
making Of an almanac. tides. the making
of charts. magnetic surveys. and the history
OF the compass and It's errors.
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DIED.

BARRoWS.-In North AstIoboro, Macs. NJ
vember 10. Henrietta Thompson. widow Or
Henry Francis Bsrrows aud daughter OF the
Ats Ira Richards. In the 18TH year Of her Aee.
boro. Wednesday. November 10. az Q p. A.
Burial private.
BERNARD.-on Tuesday. November u. 1907. GStsr
long illness. Charles n. Bernard. husband Of
jennie W. Bernard. IN tho slxtiesh year Of
his age. e
The funeral services will he held at Calvary Meth.
odist Episcopal Church, 10th 90. and Tth Av.,
on Thursday morning. November "a. 1907. AZ
10 o'clock. Intement private. Brooklyn
papers will please copy.
DoANE.-At Bishops House. Saturday morning
November Q. Sarah Katherine. beloved vile
Of william Crosven poane. In her 5Bth year.
Burial Wednesday morning, November IA q
1850. Al Saints Cathedral. Albany.
pCRYEE.-Suddenly. Oh November n. 1901
Dorothy Janewsy Duryeo. iau ghtsr OF John
Lawrence and julia Japeway Dur7ss, aged
JyeArs and o months.
Funeral private.
LoEw.-or sror'-yy. edward v. Lesw. Ia al.
10Th ycsg, y his homo. Is West S7th a.. %
Sunday. November 10.
Funeral services at his late residence an wedns..
day at II A. N. lntermsnt at convenience Of
family.
November IL. 1907. Charles Nann.
beloved husband OF Emma S. Wann. a. m
residence. aOss Sth av.. New York.
Funeral Thursday. 1 = NJ, at st.. Andrew
Church. 18TH 81. and stu av. fnsermeus pr
vAte. Greenwood.
wENrwoRTH.-,,n Monday, November II. 49,.
Thomas r. Wentworth. husbsnd OF Eisanos
~! Parsons. In the siAty -thlrl
year " his acs.
Funcral services Thursday. November "a. %,
10 a. w., o. his late residence. S5 West n D.
a. No" N0rs city Please omit noYrrs
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Chauffeur Caught ny Deputy Commissions
Bugher Gets an Unusual Sentence.

While Deputy Police Commissioner
Bugher, Sergt. Dobson OF his staf and his
chauffeur, Policeman William Leitsch, were
riding through Chambers street in the
Commissioners automobile yesterday they
saw another car running at a high rate
OF speed on tho wrong side Of the street,
ztgzagging among teams and narrowly
avoiding collisions.
Commissioner Bugher ordered his men
70 arrest the chauffeur and when they
signalled him TO stop he put on more power
and tried to get away. He was chnsed
into Lafayette street and as far north az
Franklin, when ne was caught. He proved
TO be Henry Connors. a negro driver for
the Y. W. Bliss Company OF Brooklyn.
When the car WA stopped a man who was
In it got out and went on uptown in the
subway.
When Sergt. DObson and PoNcema n
Lettsch gay their testimony against ON
nOrs in the night our Magistrate Droege
said that Commissioners Bingham had told
him thu case was a particularly aggravated
one.
Five days in the w~orkhouss." said Mag
istrate Droege.
The chauffeur was too much ~astonished
TO make my comment on HE sentence be-
fore he was led away to a cell.
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TAX EXPERTS IN CONVENTION.
nhe ~ First National Conference
e OPT ms On Columbus.

CoJUMBUs, Ohio. Nov. l2.-More than ZOO
tax experts from the United States and
Canada convened in the Board Of Trade
auditorium to-day for the FIRST national tax
conference.
George r. Pomsroy. president Of the Ohio
State BOARD OF Commerce. presided.
Gov. Andrew L. Harris In welcoming the
delegates said that the demands for rsve-
nue. we're increasing more rapidly than
taxable property and more intangible prop
erty was going into hiding.
Gov. Guild OF Massachusetts made a plea
for uniform State legislation as against
Federal 10 gislatiOn, and opposed President
Roosevelt's national inheritance and in
come tat ideas. He said in part:
1T is wrong that the American people
should be forced 70 pay in hi CHER freight
mites. in higher passenger rates, higher
frfcea for commodities in universal use a
perpetual income on capital never invested.
. Then Il Is unjust that the weak cor
poratiOn laws in one State should be per
mitted TO set at naught, "a they DO to-day.
Justice and equity TO the sntire people Of
the United States. You may come to a
more general adoption OF national legisla-
tlon. but before that desperate means is
taken Il 10 worth while 20 astennps uniform
state legislation"
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ALLEGED FORGER WORKED WERE.
n. d. smith. Arrested I'm Ptttsburs. Has
Cards Of Prominent New York People

PIrrsBURo, Nov. I2.-Chat the American
Bankers Association had offered "a reward
of g., 900 for the arrest of b. o. Smith, alias
Holloway. forger and confidence man,
caught here yesterday was revealed to-day.
Chief Of Police McQuside AZ Smith had
plans carefully laid when arrested 10 secure
entrance into Pittsburg's rich circle, ~
he did in New York city.
Smiths first act was TO get hold Of a
history containing autographed photo
graphs of prominent Pttsburgers for the
purpose Ut forging the names TO letters
and checks, McQuaide declares.
Each new search of Smith'sefects reveals
more Of his OF e~rations in New York. Hun
dredR of visiting cards Of women of fashion
in New York. including Mrs. W. X. Wander
bilt, are among his possessions. He has
letters or card puTporting 10 come from
and copies Of the signatures Of Levi v.
Morton, G. NJ. SChwab, Thomas A. Edison,
j. P. Morgan, John Jacob Aston, Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Gov. Hughes and others.
Closer examination to-day Of the cards
showed that Smith made m-emorandums on
each. according 20 the way their owners
treated him. Opposite Morton's name il
written: -Stung him for $4,000" Smith,
according TO q notation on y. Il. MOrgan's
card, was introduced 20 Mr.. Morgan by
Thomas A. Edison. TOO cold, couldn't
touch him. IL his laconic memorandum.
The police say Smith Ia wanted by the
Bankers Association for forgeries at Kan
sas City amounting 20 s8S 900.
He has been pursued from the Atlantic
70 the Pacific by the PiDkertohs, and the
police say he has served four years in Still
water, MINI, and six months in Cleveland
for forgery and false pretenoe,
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JAPANESE GET SfO,s55.
Awards on Vancouver Riot ClAims-Mcre
Orientals Ready To LaUJ.

OTTAWA. Nov. IA report from ". L.
Mackenzie King TO the Secretary Of State
eays that "a final adjustment has been
made Of AL damage claims Of Japanese in
Vancouver in connection with the Sep
tember riots. Mr.. King has awarded dam
ages totalliug stO. IT'S on the fRty-six claims
presented. The total mou asked for
was 4l3, 500.
The awards ns made are considered
satisfactory by he Japanese and a check
for the amount will be forwarded to-day
by the financial departments TO Mr.. King
and payment will be promptly made 20 he
Japanese.
The Government has been notified that
49, paSaen gers OF two steamers have just
reached Victoria from the Orient for do
barkation in Canada. The Japanese all
nave passports. Oh 450 ChiAese arriving,
ninety are newcomers and will pay an
aggregate Of SIS 900 in head taxes.
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WOMAN VINO WANTS 800, 600.
Railroads. witnesses DIG Up sections "
Her Past.

James l.. Williams. the flrst husband Of
Bertha Lees. who is suing the marlborough
Rapid Transit Company for 500, 600 dam
ages al the NdministraGrix Of William Lees,
killed in a railroad accident two years ago.
was the principal witness for the company
yesterday at the continuation Of the trial
OF the suit in the supreme Court before
Justice HendTick and a jury. The plaintiff
swears that she il the widow Of Lees and
that a child OF which he was the father was
born to her after his death. The railroad
oompany's defence is that the child lie not
Lees's child and that the marriage to Lees
was illegal, as she already had n hus-
band, Williams. not TO speak Of another
man. Harry B. Pancoest. 10 whom she had
borne "a child.
Mrs. Lees said on Monday that Williams
had disappeared shortly after their mar
rage in 1895 and that she had married
Lees at the eOd OF seven years. presuming
that Williams was dead. Williams testified
yesterday that there had been frequent
Q~uarrele between him ard the plaintiff
shortly after their marriage IA she had
told him to get out IL he did not like her
wavs. He didn't like them. 80 ne got out
and went to live with his brother in West
Fifty-fourth street. He stayed in New
York till he enlisted in 1893. and during the
three years. he said. met both his wife and
her sister.
John Lees, father of William Lees, testified
he wae sure his son had not lived with Mrs.
Lees for many months before the accident.
He added that the woman had once caused
the arrest of Lees for non-support. Lawyer
Mcintyre for III company announced that
Lees the father had signed a general re-
lease of all his claims on the company
for the loss Of his son and that IA he was
the only next Of kin the sdministratri could
not ecove
Detective O'Donnell testified that he had
arrested PanOOast and the Lees woman in a
house in Thirty-ninth strser in 1899 and that
az the police court hearing in the case the
woman mad acknowledged PanCoast as her
husband. O'DonneIl identified Pancoast in
court as the original Of a picture in the
rogues' gallery OF a man called Harry
Brown.
A process server. Charles H. Fernald,
startled the court room by testifying that
when he served Pancoast with a SUBPOENA
last week he found Panooast In deshabtlle
IN Mrs. Lees's dat at 229e Eighth avenue.
The trial continues to-day.
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OFFICERS VINO DIDN'T RIDE.
Those VINO were Unable 20 Take HorsebaciS
Test Up BEFORE Retiring Beard.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-An army ronring
board assembled to-day at. the Washington
Barracks for the purpose Of deciding whether
certain officers who failed 90 participate
In the recent horsemanship tests by reason
Of physical disability are capable Of further
service on ~the.sotive list Of the army.
There are seventeen Of these officers.
between the grades OF Captain and Colonel.
whose cases ara before the board at this
time. Other officers will be ordered before
the board later. II was decided to-day
TO have the medical ON cers OF the board
make an examination of those officers
who wsre declared unit physically to take
ths nde.