The sun., 1907-04-03
LAW SEEKS JOSIAH T. WHITE.
MRS. MURPHY SWEARS THAT HE
TRIED TO KISS HER.

AIaO Wore His PaJamas at breakfast This
Was Too Much for HOusek eeper She
Demanded Her Pay and. IRe Had Her
Arrested she Got Warrant for Him.
Josiah T. White, who lives in the big
brownstone house at 1856 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, is again in the linelight. Mrs.
Adelaide Murphy Of 173 Flatbush avenue
swore out warrant yesterday IN the Adams
street police court charging nim with assault.
to wit, osculation. Earlier in the day he had
Mrs. Murphy and her brother arrested.
Nearly everybody on the Heights knows
Josiah +. White; pretty nearly every
Supreme Court Justice and Surrogate who
has sat in Brooklyn in the last dozen years
knows him. Every policeman who has
walked post on Columbia Heights knows
him, and the neighbors have frequently
been interested to know Just what was going
on in the big house at 1S0. Lately Mr.
White has been troubled over the disappear
ance Of a Maltese cat. A policeman gave
him the oat and Mr.. White thinks that an
Italian woman stole il. The police say
that Mr. White expects the policeman
who donated the cat to get italian women
to do his sleuthing.
Gaynor In regard to the estate Of his son,
TO whom Mrs. White left considerable
property.
Il want to get more money for my dear
little boy 70 SPEND said Mr.. White.
where is the little fellow asked the
Judge kindly.
was wearing kniokers
You'd better take him home and put him
in long pants" said the Court.
These incidents have nothing Co do with
the Murphy trouble. That arose because
Mrs Murphy was Mr.. Whites housekeeper
and cook for a little over one day, ending
on Monday morning. She couldn't stand
IL any longer because she says, Mr.. White
came to his breakfast in his pajamas and
tried TO kiss her. When that happened she
decided to leave at once. She had almost
decided to quit, she says, because while she
was sweeping OF the stoop earlier one of the
neishbors told her that II she stayed she
would no doubt disappear and no one would
ever know what had become Of her.
On Monday night Mrs. Murphy sent her
young brother, Albert Sandgren, for the
money that was due her-S3 she figured IT,
Albert says he rang the bell and Mr. White
came to the door. Albert did not get the
money. Yesterday morning he went there
with his sister. Again Mr.. White came
TO the door and Mrs. Murphy demanded
her pay.
Mr. White, so Mrs. Murphy says. asked
her 70 step into the hall and then he locked
the door. All Of the other exits were locked,
che declares, including the iron barred
gate at the areaway. She managed TO
and told him TO run for a policeman Albert
hurried down 10 the lower Fulton street
station for a policeman.
Look out, Albert, he rang up a mes
r. III
to arrest you" called Mrs. Murphy, but
Albert was not afraid
The policeman that Mr. White had sent
for got there first and took the boy and tho
woman in charge. In the Adams street
station White said that he did not wieh
10 press a complaint after the prisoners
had BEEN searched, but the sergeant on
duty said that the case would have TO go
to the court upstairs, especially as Mr..
White bad accused Mrs. Murphy Of taking
some OF hts spoons and her brother OF
drawing pistol on him.
Il have TO go TO the Supreme Court on
some pressing business just now, said Mr..
White a. he bolted for the station house,
door.
The police saw him no more, but Mrs.
Murphy and her brother waited in the
court some time before they learned that
there would be no complainant TO appear
against them. Then Mrs. Murphy asked
| one Of the clerks how she could get Mr.
clerk told her that she would have to sue,
but whom he heard Of the alleged attempt
at osculation he advised Mrs Murphy TO
Gwear out the warrant.
The policeman to whom the warrant
was given had not found Mr. White at a
late hour last night Everything around
| the White residence was still. No one
answered tho repeated ringing Of the front
| door bell
Il was only going to work there by the
daU aatd Mrs MtIyV1hv laaf pf0hf aTtd
| be afraid TO stay overnight becausel there
is no gas in the house-he uses oil lamps"
Every time the Murphys' door bell rang
Mrs. Murphy thought that It was the court
| officer como to tell her that Mr.. White had
been arrested Il had been some time since
| she was In servioe-not since she had been
married and moved to Brooklyn from New
York. Murphy drives an Ice cream wagon
and what he earns will be enough for him
! and her for some time to come.