The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-21
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Kenneth p Sutherland. WIZ vas ioF
years the Democratic boss q Conev
leland. was ground to death ~ BRIT
train last night at the Bay Thirty nth
street sta,icn. BensOnhursR Mr. S'itheT-
land was killc4 shortly before 70 O'Clock
Ne had attended a meeting q the
Sixteenth Assembly district Democratic
Club. Of which he was president a. Coney
Island The meeting was over At $50
O'Clock and Mr.. sutherland q few minutes
later 30, aboard a three car Nest Fn1
train which vas starting for Manhattan.
Several q his friends were On The train.
Among them Ernest a. Finley. a real
esia;" operator II Borough Park and
a brotber-in-hw % ex-senator William
n. Rsynolds
Ne Sutherland was Ia a hurry 10 get
"a che train. II seemed he stepped for
The concrete platform before the train
had ceased moving. according 20 the
conductor. Barnett Yulcs. The concrete
was slippery from . fall Of rain He
missed his footing The moving train
caught his clothing and dragged him
down lie feIl bstween the platform and
the tracks Of the second car. was drawn
under and mangled
There were seventY-tiye passengers In
the thrss cars. some Of whom saw Mr.
Sutherland fall They rushed eNcltsdly
out Of the train. aud Il was some time be-
fore the cooler headed could get the body
10 the station platform. Meanwhile
Policeman Fred Coburgsr had sent an
alarm TO the Bath Beach station and Lieut.
kennedy had arrived with the reserves
and a patrol wagon. Mr.. Finley. Who vas
Ons Of the first 20 reach Mr.. SuthsrlaBd's
body. told Lieut Kennedy who Il was that
had been killed.
There still we're signs Of life while the
body lay on the platform and Lieut.
Kennedy sent . messenger Tor Father
Charles =. WeiEhtman Of S. Mays
Church. bat when the priest arrived Mr.
Sutherland was dead
Tho body was taken 70 the Bath Beach
police station. while Lieut. Kennedy
went 10 Mr.. Sutherland 4. home 2is Bay
ThiFty-hrut street. BennOnhurst. not far
from the station. % tell Mrs Sutherland
The truinmen were not arrested Capt
Devenney followed tho suggestion mads
by Mayor Gaynor that arrests are un-
necessary in cases where neGliGsnos or
worss is not apparent The motOrman
was John HubinG % 90 Garfield place.
Brooklyn. Barnett Yules % 81 Bay Four
ieenth street vas the conductor
Mr. Sutherland. who Was known a.
Kenny Sutherland by most ot the folk
around Coney Island. was the political
boss Of that part Of Long Island. IL didn't
make much difference whether the wind
blew Republican or Democratic. Suther-
land stayed boss Of late wears hs was
not especially prominent in the news
keeping rather ia the hack ground hut
back IN the 'oOs the papers were full Of
his dOinRs
lie was the second u the Gravesend
election offenders to go TO Sing Sing for
his part in the frauds which Mayor. then
Justice. William } Gaynor had a good
deal 10 do with exposing Sutherlahd's
conviction and sentence followed that "
his chief. John Y McKAne
Sutherland vas q justice 81 the peace !
Ia the old town u Ora vesend IN the days
AZ Mechanics power Ne was the most
infiuential Of boss McKanes counsellors |
When the big reform campaign which 70.
suited IN the election Of Charles
Schieren a. Mayor OF Brooklyn b-gan m
isu8 Justice Gaynor who had been one 81 I
the independent Democratic leaders. was |
nominated for the supreme Court bench /
on che Republican and reform tickets
he had reason 10 believe that Mckans's I
friends who hated him. would use frundu- |
lsnt means % cause his defeat and be /
sent q corps II clerks down 70 Gravesend |
10 copy the registry lists Mckahs re-
fused 10 permit him 10 have tho lists. and /
he Obsnin an injunction restraining
Mckane from interfering With his |
watchers u vas then thai Mckane de- /
clarsd -lniunctiuns don't 20 hsre,' /
Gaynor's cOpyists we're hustled about aud /
beaten and some Of them wers arrested. |
dragged before Judge Sutherland and |
locked up
A. result Of the outrage the Governor /
q special Grand Jury. which |
returned indictments against McKane and |
MckaRe went 10 Sing Sing
and Sutherland vas convicted on March /
H. 1904 While the jury was out Suther-
land. who had not teen formally under
arrest and had bsen waiting in the CORR
dor. disappeared He Jumped his hail /
and led 10 Canada.
Edward NJ shepard. who was the
special District Attorney in charge Of the
sass, obtained has voluntary return 70
Brooklyn and Sutherland pleaded guilty
10 the second charge against him. He Waa
INT TO STATE prison for two years on
he ballot boz stufing charge and 20 the
Denitentiary In Kings county for q year
IN the Oppression charge. he served two
yaars and eight months and thsn returned
% Coney Island 70 resume his political
power
Sutherland made a confession Of some
II the elscth5n crimes he committed
he made the statement that a. least zoo
'raiIdulsut ballots we're stuffed into the
lailot boHss ~ the isos election IN Graves
md.
On May .. isoa. Gov. HiGgins restored
lim % citizenship on the rscommsn-
istion Of Edward M shepard. Justice
laHnar. lndae Willard nArtlali. 81. Clair