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TELLs or olTEcrivEs DEMAND
ron $500 BRiBE.

ron Ht,e00 bHt08.
8. Weiss. q licensed auctionssr At No. |
i?s East Third street. was tho next |
Witness. Following burglary. he said. |
he was visited by detectives who |
agreed to make good on the escape
OF the burglars providing $500 was
paid. These police. the witness testi- j
Ned, we're Daily. Body. Murray. Richard
Oliver and Capt. Mckinney.
Weiss had been introduced before the
committee, by counsel. a. q person
| having knowledge OF others receiving
stolen goods. He swore that his lawyer.
Abraham Harowitz. told him after the
burglary that ne would be arrested.
Lawyer Harowitz and the witness then
went to the station house. when ar
rangcments were made to provide hall
for the witness the next day. The arrest
was postponed until the next day. In
an upper room In the station house. the
witness testified. he saw Capt. McKin-
ney and Detective Oliver among a
group Of others.
The next day. according to the wit
ness. Hsrowltx told him that he wanted
$500, with which TO ''flx UP" the burglary
charge with the police. 1t developed
that man named Kapian was to be
protected against a charge of having
received the stolen goods. The witness
added that he paid ave detectives -
: and the case against him was not
, pushed.
Later Kaplan's case was to come ur
: in court. and 1900 was put In ths
hands OF man named !. Margolis, &c
, be paid by Harowitz to the police Il
bring about = dismissal Of the Ksplar
charge
There was a hitch after the none,
. was up continued the witness. BE
y cause all the cops were nshting owe
the distribution"
= How long have you been btuin
stolen goods?" ASKED Mr.. Bucknr.
II never was In that business. but
: was concerned In the purchase of stole
goods following the Kaplan burglary.
answered Weiss. They told me tn
goods were In a private house-that
:, firm had failed"
,s WELL, THE GOODS couLoN'
e TALK"
o 80 you can buy 1850 worth OF good
'e for $500 and think YOU are not running
fence?" demanded Alderman Bowling,
II Well. the goods couldn't talk" an
II swered the witness
1t Louis Kaplan preaxsd his testimon
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NIGHT MANAGER coNrRAptcri
rGeTrMoNv or DORIAN.

Nathan j. MichAels, night manager OF
the Baltic Hotel. One Hundred and
Twenty.fourth street and Lexington
avenue. which Mr.. sipp formerly owned.
was an unwilling witness.
Mr.. Bucknsr was unable to get any
thing regarding the hotel ownership
from the witness.
rs Mr.. Dorian connected WIKI your
hote?" asked the Attorney.
'1Ie 10 the day manager--J am the
night manager"
Q. Did Dorian tsaa the truth when ha
told US yestsrday ne had paid 800 Q
month to Mr.. epp 20 give 10 the police
and later 10 a month to Policeman FOX I
A. lie did not. r.t.
q. How did you know he didn't A. ne.
cause would have known II this money
was coming ron the business.
q. Did you pay anything for police pro-
tection3 A. We didn't have to--we run
a respectable hotel.
Q. DID you hear all Of Dorian's story
yesterday A. No. cir. didn't want
to stay and left.
Q. Was Max Hochstim with you! A.
Yes: but ne left. too.
Q. Why did Dorian tell such Q stor y
II 1. wasn't true? A. don't know.
thought he and sipp were up to some
thing. Sipp has hcen threatening to
break" Inspector Sweeney.
Mr.. Buckner announced TO the com.
mittee that Witnesses expected to ties.
tNy along lines similar to those dc.
veioped had suddenly been taken I'll and
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APIPRAIsALS OF ESTATES.

Deputy State Comptroller Wallace 8.
Fraser transmitted the following apr
praisals of estates = der the inheritance
tax law to-day to the Transfer Tax
ONCE of the SurroEates' Court:
Ellen Sage Of Chicago. III. tdied July
l, 1910. entire personal estate. net value.
1895.
Patrick Lally died April %. 1slD. net
estate, $50 0eS.
Edward Loewenstedn tdied July 90
1912. net estate, &l6.57S.
Morris Lewenthal died March III,
1922. net, 1887.
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WELL, THE GOODS COULDN'T
TALK"

80 you can buy s. 800 tn OF goods
for 500 and think YOU are not running a
fence?' demanded Alderman Bowling.
Well. the goods couldn't talk" an
swered the witness.
Louis Kaplan preaxed hAs testimony
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COLLECT CAPTAINS GRAFT
WAS lob OFFERED TO Him,
WITNESS TELLS ALDERMEN

with the statement that he never had
been convicted OF crime He eaid.
however. he had been arrested June 10
at his place OF business, No. 12s East
Third street, where he is a partner of
Weiss On that day. Detcctives Daily.
Oliver. Murray and Body entered his
place and announced that they were go
ing TO search for stolen goods.
They said 81 I'd give them $3.50 they
wouldn't go into tho basement Of the
store next door. I told them to go
ahead. They went upstairs and came
back In five minutes. saying II ia give
them $50 they'd 20 away. ! told them
I didn't have that much. but friends
who came IN said they'd put up $50.
Tho detectives said they'd have to talk
TO Mr. Mckinney about it,
1t was explained that Mr.. Mckinney
IL Police Captain Mckinney.
Mr.. Mckinney came over and then
they said I would have to give them
81. 600 to get out OF II. Then they went
next door into the basement, found
some stun and took II to the police
station. and was arrested"
SAYS THE cAPTAtN's LAWYER
FRIEND WANTED FIXING MONEY
The witness said when no was re-
leased on bond he was approached by
. lawyer named Harowitz. a good friend
Of Capt. Mckinney. Kaplan spoke 10
the captain about him.
Sure. he's q good lawyer" he said
Mckinney told him.
According to tho witness, Harowltx
fret told him he would have to have
400 for MS fee and TO Ak the detec.
tive" Later. he said. Harowttx made
the ampant si,ooo. which Kapian gave
to HarSwitx's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS give
TO him.
1T was understood" said Kaplan.
that " went free tho money would
90 to the dstectives-if / was convicted
I'd get the money back
Kaplan was not discharged. but was
held Tor the Grand Jury. Still. he never
got his thousand dollars back.
Morris 6meriing. convicted Of receive
ing stolen goods. was next called to the
stand. lie swore that he was visited
at No. Is Canal street by Policemen
oliver and Brennan. who offered to
make him - collector for Capt. Nc
Kinney and I was to get $500 month"
Il got tired Of bleeding people and
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IMPORTANT WITNESS KEPT
FROM cURRAN COMMITTEE.

story was current In the District
Attorneys Office to-day that an assis-
tant had had a long talk outside OF the
Criminal Courts Building with womsn
who has told a story even more start
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The following were the highest. lowest and last
compared with yesterdays closing otations:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-21

Hamilton, O., Aug. 21; Large
picture is of Mrs. James Bruce, "a,
bride of a month, whose husband,
it is alleged, sent her a box of
candy to the hospital where she
was lying sick.
She didn't eat any, but treated
party of girl friends who visited
her. All became sick, and Miss
Rose Ziepe, who is seen in the.
smaller picture, died The third.
picture is that Of the bridegroom,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-21
An HtJncIe Torn's Cabin' {

An Uncle Toms Cabin" COM
pany was starting to parade in
small New England town when
big gander from a farmyard near
at hand Waddled to the middle of
the street and began to hiss.
One of the actors turned
toward the fowl-and angrily ex-
claimed:
Don't be so quick to jump at
conclusions Wait till you see the
show"
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give it monnicker that was worthy
iv it. so I called it tn ole Oleson range
afther a frind iv mine in Christyansen.'
So now Biography iv tn ann-artic re-
gions Hinnissy, will look like map iv
Minnesoty But tn biggest thing he
done I've saved f'r tn last. Afther
thravelin' thousands iv miles over ice
an snow, climbin' mountains an bat
tin with tn tempest. he reports that
he took observations with tn theobyl
lite, tn artyfcyal horizon, tn fryin
pan. an the appytite an discovered
that a dog is good to eat. Dogs dis
covered this about me long ago, but L
niver SUSPECTED that whn' wan iv these
frinds iv man took me be tn leg L cud
bite him back without indigestion. To
tell ye tn thruth. aven now that L
know. nawthin' looks less like supper
to me thin me little Carlo. But I'm
wrong. An firm now on whin l hear
We whistle FIR Fido l won't know
whether yere affictionate or only hun
CRY, an whin I hear We say, Down
F'ido. down, I'll be afraid to look
- x
Have We r-read what tn Cap wrote
about his thravels? I'll say this about
him that he may be great explorer,
but he's a poor writer. Faith, to r-read
his story twas as aisy to discover tn
into tn house to him. He made no
more throuble about it thin We wud
about walkin' in tn park. He disap-
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pert in his line, whose eyes are so sure
that in running them over the coins he
can determine at a glance whether one
of them is light not. Some of the men
adept that they can tell practically
by the cut whether the coin is below
what is called the limit of legal tolerance.
The bags contain coins of mixed de-
nominations: that is. $40, $40 and s. gold
pieces, with occasionally a S21a gold
piece. The thing that most strikes the
novice when he sees bag of coin opened
is thespreSence of numerous chips OF gold
which, on examination, prove to be moth
ing more nor less than parts of one of
our gold coins, which has been chopped
up into very little bits.
Each bag. as already stated. must
weigh exactly 800 ounces and the inn
porters bring the gold in by weight and
not by the denominations of the coins
contained in the bag. A certain number
of gold $40 pieces or so. pieces should
make up the required 500 ounces, but in
the event of the coins being light natur-
ally there will be a small difference to
be made up. Sometimes this difference
in weight can be made up by the adj
dition of a 50 gold piece and one chip of
gold. Where it is less than So gold
9piece in weight several chips of gold are
added to make the proper weight.
In other words, the difference in weight
on account of worn coins is made up
either by adding a small piece, or by
chips of gold, until the bag is absolutely
and accurately 500 ounces in weight.
Banks do not receive the identical gold
coin which they import When the boxes
arrive and the bags are checked the
banks receive bags of gold from the
vault of the subtreasury, each contain
ing $1,000. The Sorter in the coinroom
goes over the imported coin very care
fully and picks out any coin that he
thinks is light in weight. He then
weighs that particular coin, and if il is
below the limit of legal tolerance. which
is one-half of l per- cent, it is sent to
the assay office and stamped with the
letter l.. which means that ii is light
in weight and must be withdrawn from
circulation. The bank importing the coin
simply regards that coin as old gold, des-
tined for the melting pot. But the bank
is not out anything on that account, in
asmuch as it bought its gold by weight.
Assuming that a bag of coin requires
several chips of gold in order to make it
weigh exactly 800 ounces, there is
possibility of profit in it aside from the
ordinary profit on the importation for the
importing bank. There may be a dozen
or two dozen coins-this is not likely,
however-which are light. but still with
in the limit of legal tolerance. The bank
has received gold coins from the SUBJ
treasury vaults. and the coins in its i'm
port, although light, are still received at
their face value. Consequently the chips
of gold are pure profit to the importing
bank Sometimes bags of coin arrive
which are without chips, but such are the
exception
Weighing the gold is an interesting part
of the process: Inc government makes
up its bags of coin in 5000 lots. The
weigher takes a scoopful of coin and puts
it in a scale. which contains on the other
side the necessary weight for $1,000 in
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Continued From Fourth Page.)

continued From Fourth PaSe.)
the old Hanseatic towns banking facili-
ties almost to breaking point, and delays
in payments by English and French mer-
chants to Germans, due to the war, had
caused many failures in Germany.
In order to make things easier it was
customary to ship merchandise from
England into Germany and draw bills
payable several months later, thus al
lowing sufficient time for the goods to be
sold and the money thus secured to be
RENTED to meet the obligations. Owing
to the war, exchange between London
and Hamburg reached the almost pro-
hibitive rate Of 30 per cent upon bills
returned to England.
To relieve the consequent stress a group
of British bankers decided to send bullion
and specie to their Hamburg representa-
tives, so that the bills of English mer-
chants could he met on the spot instead
of suffering the heavy discount prevail
ing.
This, of course involved taking a big
risk. So the admiralty loaned for the
purpose the Lutine, a thirty two-gun frig-
ate. October 8. 1899. she set sail for Var
mouth, carrying 100000 in specie, an
enormous load in those days.
Hardly had she cleared the port before
she ran into a gale. which grew in vio-
lence throughout the day, until when
darkness had fallen it bested the Lutines
crew, and drove the ship ashore on the
Dutch coast, between the islands Of Vile
land and Terschelling, which lie off one
of the entrances to the Zuyder Zee.
The ship struck with such force that
she went over on her beam ends. Those
on board had scarcely a chance. Some
thing like three hundred of them were
drowned; only two got out alive. and of
these one survived only few hours, and
the other lost his mind.
The specie on the frigate he'd been in
Sured by LlOydS. LondOn'S insurance
center, which is still in existence. The
underwriters paid what was due to the
shippers of the gold, judging the Lutine
total loss, since the King of Holland, at
the instance of the French, had declared
the wrecked ship and her contents spoils
of war.
For about a year the wreck was I'M
touched except for the weddings of
Dutch fishermen, who had got wind of
the treasure and lusted to get hold of
some of it, Their activities aroused the
Dutch government to a realization of the
wealth at its doors. and in 1900 and 1901
official salvage work was begun.
But all sorts of difficulties. principally
the inadequate nature of diving dress at
the time, combined to thwart the treasure
seekers, and the storms of successive
years buried the hulk deeper and deeper.
Attempts were made to get at the treas
ure in 1914 and 1923. but they were I'M
availing. In the latter year the King of
Holland resigned his rights in the sub
merged gold to King George ". who
partial naturalization for the loss sus-
tanned by that concern as insurers of the
frigate's cargo.
Lloyds made a half-hearted attempt to
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rom the Pail Mall Gazette

prom TaII MaII
One of the eight daughters OF the
ASchduke Frederick. the eldest brother OF
the Dowager Queen of Spain, is taking
out a patent for new form of candle.
She is only following an example set by
several other royalties. The most sue
cessful of these is the Grand Duke or
luxembourg, who has patented a screw
which has been adopted by several Ger
man shipping companies. Prince Henry
of Prussia holds the patent of an inven-
ton for preventing the clouding of wind
screens on motor cars, and his nephew,
the crown prince. has patented a special
form of sleeve link. The kaiser is credited
with the invention of brake for auto
mobiles. but up to the present this has
not been patented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24
Women and Censorship.
From the Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
The interesting proposal has lately been
made in England shat if there are to be
two censors of stage plays one OF them
be a woman. More than half of the
audience, it is urged, are women, and
it is supposed to be in behalf of the
women mainly that the censorship is
maintained. Why not. then, let women
decide what il is improper for them TO
see, instead of having man try TO guess
what they would think improper? OF
course, nothing will come of ii, and the
fact that such an arrangement would be
logical is against it. for the British GEN.
sorship long since parted company with
logic and accepts an indecent burlesque
whilA rejecting a really strong and in
teresting play if it fails to conform to
old hioned views. But il would be
both interesting and instructive to see
what women would do with such a re-
sponsibiity, and the results might be
surprising.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24
Rare Type of Editor.

G ENATOR CRANE was talking about
~ an opponent of arbitration.
The man is not liberal" he said.
HE takes a narrow. selfish view or
things. He is not we'll informed either.
The fact is he reminds me in his mar
rowness and ignorance of the editor or
the CinnaminSon Scimitar.
THE editor of the Cinnaminson Sciml-
tar, reading the copy OF a cub reporter
from Yale, came to the sentence:
Caesar not merely met opportunity;
he created it,
''The editor looked up from this sem
tence and said, reproachfully:
- Look here, what do you want to ao-
vertiSe Caesar for?'
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must be south winds an all winds firm
tn north pole must be north winds an
other kind. But / may be wrong
Another thing that tn Cap done
was to give stately Norwegian names
TO all the scenery he run into. ON
October fifth he says. we spied
magnificent mountain range towerin'
NANNY thousands iv feet lords tn
heavens. This sublime monnymint iv
nature had gone all these years with
out name. 1 made up me mind to
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ct looks to me-" said Mr.. Hennessy,
that there was nawthin' left to eX-
plore.'
There's plenty" said Mr.. Dooley.
why, I'm explorin' all tn time.
There's wan place I've sailed around a
millyon times an taken me life in me
hands thryin' TO map out, but all L
know is what it looks like at
distance"
An what's that?" asked Mr.. Hen
messy
Its name" said Mr.. Dooley, lis Hin
Missy"
Copyright, 1912, by Finley Peter Dunne)
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recover the treasure in 1S2S, after which
they did nothing for twenty-eight years.
Then-in 1S56-they went to work again,
in conjunction with a Dutch company.
This time they used divers attired in
something like up-to-date garb. and
small sum of money was recovered.
Whetted by this bit of success. the sal
wage workers went ahead more actively
than ever. Finally, in April, 1873, nearly
sixty years after the Lutine had gone to
the bottom, the first bar of bullion was
hOiSted from her vitals. By the middle
of October gold and silver bars and coins
to the value of $4,000 had been recov-
cred. 1t looked if all obstacles had
been surmounted-that the recovery of
the entire big shipment was merely a
question of time and perseverance.
But the treacherous sands of the Dutch
coast shifted before operations could be
resumed the following spring, and COM
pletely covered those portions of the hulk
where the divers had made their find
Nevertheless, they stuck to the job and
managed to get seven more bars. But
the sand spread relentlessly and they had
to surrender to it. Next season they
went at it again, until the total treasure
salvaged reached the sum of $220,OO0
Then they left the wreck alone until
1867, and then again-except for sporadic
and practically barren attempt+until
1886 In that year steam suction shell
dredgerS were used for the first time and
during the ensuing four years a total of
over 11,000 coins was recovered. aggre-
eating in value about $4,000, but not
single bar Of gold or silver came to the
surface
X
Attempts in 1894 and 1902 were insig-
nificant in results. Then, last summer,
the National Salvage Association took a
hand in the game. Aided by powerful
suction dredges they soon uncovered
good portion Of the wreck, and started
on the quest of the treasure along en-
tirely new lines.
More interesting than the expectation of
gold in its boxes and kegs is the pro-
cedure when New York city receives the
precious metal into its midst for ship
ment.
Every one is more or less interested in
gold imports, and the backing up of a
truck at the assay office with gold bars
at the Pine street entrance of the SUBJ
treasury with boxes of coins always at
tracts a crowd. Coins come in ordinary
boxes carefully sealed. In each of these
there are from three to five bags con-
tanning gold coins of the United States.
Gold coin of any other country is not
handled at the subtreasury, but is trans
ferred to the assay office, just the same
as gold bars are.
Each bag of coin in one of the wooden
boxes contains exactly 800 ounces, and
the value of each bag is, approximately
S9,305. When the boxes are taken into
the coinroom they are broken open and
the bags taken out and checked. Imme-
diately after these bags are checked the
subtreasury advances to the banks to
which the coin is consigned $1,000; the
balance is paid on the final inspection by
the sorting force of the subtreasury
Every man who handles coin in that
department Of the subtreasury IL an eX-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

I'll find no fault with ye fr sayin'
that" said Mr.. Dooley. An what
diff renee does it make if no wan is
amy betther off FIR tn Cap soin there?
1t amt always tn things that ar-re
tn most use in tn wurruld that ARE
tn most worth don'. IL it was, most
iv us wudden't do anything but set
around an kick. Aven tn fellows that
ARE sayin'. What good does artic
expeditions do? There's no market FIR
tn ice whin it's found. ARE glad to
think there's nawthin' on tn face ~
tn globe that annywan has heerd
iv that can bluff out this here little
sawed off runt called Man. We don't
have to promise him anything. All
We have to say to him, There is place
where no man has liver been and he'll
give a yell iv Well. here goes wan
man anyhow and off he goes, an If
he fails there's thousand to take his
place"
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gold. The weight of $1,000 is appToXi-
mately - 66 pennyweight but il fiuctu-
ates between that figure and $50 penny
weight. II it should go below the former
figure il means that coins showing abra-
sion or wear are in the lot
Afterward the coin is poured through a
funnel into a white canvas bag, tied up,
sealed and labeled.
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pole. So 1 marked it an come home
l have on'y to put down me scientific
DISCOVERIES
"1ce-We found a practically onlim-
tied supply iv durable ice iv good quail
ity.
'Snow-We were enable to bring
back amy samples iv ann-artic snow
but in a gin'ral way it can be described
snow.
observation-disclosures iv canned vi
gytables were discovered in our soup
firm time to time.
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pointed me. If mans a hero lave
him be tn first TO say so. How can
that didn't suffer amy more all tn time
he was away thin 1 wud if kicked off
tn blanket in me sleep? Nawthin'
happened to him at all.
II was ordhered south be me doc
ters,' he says, to escape tn discom-
forts iv a spring in Norway. In April
we enthered tn -artic regions. Tn
weather was delightfully."- crisp an
sparklin'. with just enough cold to