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Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28
PUBLIC SALE

On Wednesday, March 4th, 1914, at
eleven o'clock, will sell at my home
farm situated at Kirkwood, all of my
live stock consisting of
20 HEAD OF
Fine working and driving horses and
25 COWS AND 2 BULLS
All this stock is home-raised and of
best quality.
This stock was not sold at my adver-
tised sale on account of bad weather
but will positively be sold on the above
date.
RICHARD T. CANN.
Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28
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SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Levari Facies, to me directed
will be exposed to Public sale at the
Court House, on Market street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets,
in the city of Wilmington, New
Castle county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914,
at 10 o'clock, A. M.
the following described Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot or parcel of land
situate in Brandywine hundred New
Castle County and State of Delaware,
bounded and described as follows, to-wit.
Beginning at the intersection of the
southeasterly side of Third street with
the southwesterly side OF. Lore avenue
as the same is laid down on plot of Cor
don Heights, recorded in the Office for
the Recorder of Deeds, etc., thence
southwesterly by the said side of Third
street one hundred feet; thence south
easterly, parallel with Lore avenue, two
hundred and fifty feet to the northwest
erly side of Second street, thence
northeasterly along the said side
of Second street, one hundred
feet to the said side of Lore avenue,
and thence thereby northwesterly two
hundred and fifty feet to the place of
beginning, be the contents thereof what
they may, together with the buildings,
excepting thereout the bed of all the
avenues and streets, as laid out on the
said plot of Gordon Heights, but express
ly including the right-of-way, use and
privilege of all of said avenues and
and streets, also the right of way, use
and privilege of an avenue forty feet
wide, leading from the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
along land of Michael Address to low
water mark on the Delaware river front
in common with others entitled thereto,
forever, being the same lands and pre-
misses which GeArge R. Townsend
Company, corporation of the State
of Delaw ire, by Indenture, dated April
4th, 1910, and of record in the Office for
the Recording of Deeds, Etc, at Will
mington, in and for New Castle County
in Deed Record "U,, Volume %, Page
205, granted and conveyed unto Musa
K. Branch, party hereto in fee. This
is not purchase money mortgage, but
is given and held subject to lien of a
prior mortage of twenty-five hundred
dollars (S2, ,200.0 00, dated January 18th,
A. D. 1912, held by the National Real
Estate Trust Company, corporation
of the State of Delaware on a part of
the land covered by this indenture.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Musa K. Branch, and John
A. Branch, her husband, mortgagors,
and to be sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's office, Wilmington, Del,
February 70 1914
Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28
SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Levari Facias, to me dir
ected will be exposed to Public Sale,
at the Court House, on Market street,
between Tenth and Eleventh streets,
in the city of Wilmington, New
Castle county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914
at 10 o'clock, a. M,
the following described Real Estate, viz:
All of a certain lot or piece of land
situate in the City of Wilmington
aforesaid, bounded and described as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Beginning at point on the westerly
side of Heald street at the distance of
Ninety three feet southerly from the
southerly side of Fourteenth street;
thence westerly, parallel with Four
teenth street, eighty-seven feet and
six inches to corner; thence soutlerly,
parallel with Heald street, twenty-five
feet to corner; thence easterly, par
allel with Fourteenth street, eighty
seven feet and six inches to the afore-
said side of Head street; and thence
thereby northerly twenty-five feet to
the place of beginning.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Ridgeway Brown, and to
be sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS, Sheriff,
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, DEL,
February IL, 1914.
Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28

| SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Levari Facias, to me dir
ected will be exposed to public sale,
at the Court House, on Market
street between Tenth and Eleventh
New Castle county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
| THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914,
at 10 O'Clock, a. m,
the following described Real Estate,
viz:
All of a certain lot or piece of land,
aforesaid, bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at point on the westerly
Eleventh and Twelfth streets, at the
distance of forty-fve feet southerly
from the southerly side of Twelfth
Twelfth street, one hundred feet to the
easterly side of Elizabeth street, thence
by said easterly side of Elizabeth street
s0utherly thirty feet to a stake; thence
easterly, parallel with Twelfth street,
one hundred feet to the aforesaid wes-
terly side of Walnut street; and thence
thereby northerly thirty feet, to the
place of beginning.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of John w. Bird, admins
traitor, d. b. n. c. t. a. of Daniel B.
Anderson, deceased, and to be sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del,
February IL, 1914.
SHERIFF'S SALE-LY-vIRT' e OF
writ of Lev. Fa,. to m, directed,
will be exposed to Public BAL at the
Court House, on Market Street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh Streets, in
the city of Wilmington, New Castle
county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY
THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914
at 10 O'Clock a. m,
the following described Real Estate viz:
All of a certain lot or piece of land
situate in the City of Wilmington afore-
said, bounded and described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning at point on the easterly
side of Thatcher street at the distance
of one hundred and thirty three feet
southerly from the SOutherly side of
Fourteenth Street; thence easterly
pal ollCi VIII OuIIeOllbu OLT6eJ, eighty /
seven feet and six inches to a corner; !
thence Southerly, parallel with
Thatcher street thirty-six feet to
corner; thence Westerly, parallel with i
Fourteenth Street, ninety-seven feet
and six inches TO point on the Easterly
side of Thatcher street, and thence there
by northerly thirty-six feet to the place
of beginning.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Lille E. Coyle Reed and to
be sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS, Sheriff.
Sherif's Office, Wilmington, Del,
February IL, 1914.
Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Levari Facias, to me dir
ected, will be exposed to public sale
at the Court House, on Market street,
between Tenth and Eleventh streets,
in the city of Wilmington, New
Castle county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY
THE 18TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914
vt 10 o'clock, a. m,
the following described Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot or piece of land,
with the dwelling house thereon erected
situate in the city of Wilmington, New
Castle county and State of Delaware
bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at point on the southerly
side of Twelfth street, at the distance
of 20 ft. easterly from the easterly side of
Lincoln st; thence easterly along said side
of Twelfth street twenty feet to cor
ner; thence southerly parallel with LIN
coin street 100 feet inches to corner,
thence westerly, parallel with Twelfth
street, twenty feet to point; thence
thereby northerly, parallel with Lincoln
street, one hundred feet, three inches
to the place of beginning, be the con-
tents thereof what they may.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Delaware Construction
Company, corporation of the State
of Delaware, and Horace H. Thayer,
Jr., receiver, and to be sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del,
February II, 1914.
Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Levari Facias, to me direct
ed, will be exposed to Public Sale at
the Court House, on Market street,
between Tenth and Eleventh Streets,
in the City of Wilmington, New
Castle County, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
THE 18TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914,
at 10 o'clock, A. M,
the following described Real Estate viz:
All of certain lot or piece of land,
situate in the City of Wilmington,
aforesaid, bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a stake in the Easterly
side of Lincoln street, at the Southerly
side of Tenth street; thence Westerly
along said side of Tenth street sixty
feet to a stake; thence Southerly, par
allel with Lincoln street one hundred
feet to stake; thence Easterly, par
allel with Tenth street sixty feet to
stake in the Westerly side of Lincoln
street; thence Northerly along said side
of Lincoln street one hundred feet to
the place of beginning.
Seized and taken in execution as the pro-
perty of ohm Opperman and to be sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del.
February IL, 1914.
Middletown transcript., 1914-02-28

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Levari Facias to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House, on Market Street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets, in
the City of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Delaware.
ON SATURDAY,
THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914,
at 10 o'clock, a. m.
the following described Real Estate viz
All that certain lot or piece of land
situate in the City of Wilmington afore-
said, bounded and described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning at point on the sourtherly
side of Twenty-second street, at the
distance of twenty-five feet Easterly
from the Easterly side of Church street,
thence southerly parallelwith Church st.
one hundred feet; thence Easterly par
allel with TWenty-second street seventy
five feet; thence Northerly parallel
with Church street one hundred feet to
the Southerly side of Twenty-second
street, and thence thereby Westerly
seventy-fve feet to the place of begin
ming
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Charles l. Ely, and to be
sold by
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del,
Feb. IL. 1914.
SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
a writ of Levari Facias, to me dir
ected, will be exposed to Public Sale,
at the Court House, on Market
street, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, IN the city of Wilmington,
New Castle county, Delaware,
ON SATURDAY
THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914
at 10 o'clock, a. M,
the following described Real Estate, viz:
All of a certain lot or piece of land
situate in the City of Wilmington
aforesaid, bounded and described as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Beginning on the Southerly side of
Eleventh street, at the distance of one
hundred and twenty feet from the
westerly side of Lincoln street; thence
southerly, and parallel with Lincoln
street one hundred feet to a stake;
thence westerly and parallel with
Eleventh street forty feet to stake;
thence northerly and parallel with Lin
coin street, one hundred feet to the
said side of Eleventh street and thence
thereby westerly forty feet to the
place of beginning.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Mary H. Callan and to be
sold by
WALTER S. BURRIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del,
February II, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-03-29

quarters; there were three of us in the
coming tower-the navigator, a seaman
al the wheel and myself. We headed
straight for the entrance, and the cap
tain gave the order "Fire to the right Of
Morro," but the word was passed Fire
right at Moro" We fired several
rounds before the Spaniards replied, but
their first shell went directly over us
and only a little high il is all nonsense
about their not being able to shoot
every shot they fred came within a
hundred yards of US.
/ had a fine view until the smoke COW
cred everything; we would hear whiz-
zing in the air that sounded like bumoie
bee and then a great column Of steam
and water would suddenly appear a short
distance away. a few minutes after We
commenced firing there was a tremendous
shock. as if a locomotive had run into
the ship. shell had struck the armor
belt just below the port sheet anchor.
Whenever we fired our own S-inch guns
forward of the beam il seemed as If we
had been hit by the enemy; the muzzles
of these guns are close 10 the eye Sits III
the coming tower, and the conclusions
were simply terrific. Clouds of smoke
dust and solid matter would come sursing
in, filing our eyes, and our ear drums
ached so that | felt sure they would ht
broken. in spite Of the cotton we were
using to protect them.
The ship did some splendid shooting
one l3-inch shell going right into MORO
and knocking the whole lower wall down
1t was impossible 10 see this from the
coming tower. but the people on the
bridge reported IT,
After the 6ugle sounded the retreat /
went down to the steerage 10 get drink
of water. and saw NJ sitting there
with a trouser leg rolled up and a biz
led spot on one side OF his calf and a
corresponding one on the other side where
the bullet had gone out We were won
dering how he could have been hit by
revolver at a range Of several thousand
wards. when he volunteered the iniorma
tion that he had been so absorbed III
measuring ranges from the top that he
had dropped his own revolver and shot
himself through the leg
We exchanged signals with the othei
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and during the last six months many
members Of the trade have been sin
gled out as victims
During six months Of 1913 the
trade papers reported twenty-six safe
robberies. totalling loss Of S3S3,OOo'
Windows were smashed in l26 stores,
with a total loss of $4,000; burglaries
IN jewellers shops alone amounted to
$4,000; 1866 sneak thefts from jewel
lers brought prolific the thieves
of S11.5OO. and fourteen daring hold
ups in which jewellers were the vic
tins rolled up $4,000 more.
Many of these crimes took place in
Maiden Lane and the vicinity. There
was the Coulton case Of February 10,
1913, which is one of the most daring
crimes on record below the dead
line" When George Coulton, one of
the members Of II. X. Bicker & Co.
was alone in his Office, two men
called on him with the request to see
some diamonds While he bent over
the tray one Of them struck him over
the head with a blackjack, but, al
though he was partly stunned, he
succeeded in graphing with his as
sailant and holding him until help
arrived. His companion escaped and
has never been run down by the po-
lice, who believe that the robbers
came to the district in an automobile.
and that the attempted theft was the
result of long and careful planning.
There was the case Of l. r. Theise,
of No. A Maiden Lane, who was
robbed of $4,000 worth of gems last
August. After he had taken from a
safe deposit vault a sack Of jewels
he carelessly left them on his desk
while he stepped across the hall to
see a neighboring jeweler. When he
returned after two or three minutes
the sack had disappeared and no
trace Of it has been found to the
present day.
we don't know what the dead
line is worth from the detectives
point of view" said James II. Noyes,
secretary of the Jewellers Security
Alliance, but we do know that when
it was in operation our show win
dows were comparatively safe. The
robberies that have troubled us have
occurred since it was abolished, and
for one should like TO see it re-es-
tablished."
Up to 1880, when Inspector Byrnes
New-York tribune., 1914-03-29
: A NuDsHIPMAN WHO HELPED MAKE HISTORY AT SANTIAGO

Great excitement was caused last nisn'
by one of the auxiliares firing a WHO'S
batch Of rockets and blazing away Nln
all her guns, every ship in the feet wen.
to quarters and closed in. The cause %
the disturbance reported that she hso uis.
tinctly seen a strange destroyer speeoins
along close TO the shore. What she oi'
see was a train running along the pans
X, who commanded our picket lauh''
got so excited that he dropped ms Vn'
FOUNDER overheard; it's just as Neh =.
him, at least, that the Spaniards W..
obliged to confne their maneuvres 10 'N'
railroad tracks.
The VesUvius has a great system E's..
night, between darkness and dawn
fires three dynamite shells into the io'~
they may be fired either at short time
tervals or hours apart, the result 0'"',
that after one aerial earthquake
landed i'm their midst il Is only hH'''~
for the enemys garrison TO specuia''
to the exact time of the Landing o. ~.
two succeeding ones, and such specu's'S
is certainly not conducive to restiui s,Is. ~
1t is a very uncanny performance as -,
nrotectiles are fired not from gun '''
from a pneumatic tube.
New-York tribune., 1914-03-29
DFAD7 line pEvIyED7 10 Stop THIEVES JUBILEE Downtown
Recent Reaping Of Rich Harvests by Thieves
in the Maiden Lane and Wall Street
District Leads to Drastic Measures
Of Reprisal by the Police.

of the world have been arrested trying
TO cross II. Charlie" O'Connor. the
bank sneak, who escaped from the
prison pen in General Sessions when
he was about TO be sentenced to a
long term in Sing Sing prison, was
arrested there. "Hobney' OReilly.
who hooked wads Of bills from the
cashiers window with bent steel
wire. was also arrested whirs attempt
ing 10 cross the line. \ couple Of well
known Western thieves, relying ON
the fact that they were strangers in
New York, tried to cross in open dis
dain Of the detectives, and were
promptly jugged for II.
Sometimes the thieves would lay
wagers with each other on their
ability TO cross the line. They at
tempted IT in elevated trains, in cabs
and in disgulses. Once in a great
while some one OF them would be sue
cessful, but running the blockade was
finally considered too dangerous for
profit It was known that Byrnes
cared very little whom he caught as
long as a thief was landed in prison
for a certain time. No matter VINO
the thief was or what he had done,
he was fairly certain 70 take a trip
I'D the river IL he ventured below
Fulton street. There even came 10
be underworld regulations in regard
10 the walled off territory. When an
ex-criminal was compelled to enter
il for legitimate business, he informed
the police authorities, and a detective
was sent with him as an escort.
Certain types OF thieves are always
eager to enter the financial district.
Swindlers offering showy diamonds
as security for loans used TO make
a good thing out Of the jewellers and
bankers in the vicinity Of Maiden
Lane. This type Of dishonesty was
often adopted by women, who dressed
themselves in mourning, represented
themselves as widows, and told Sob
stories about having seen better days
Sneak thieves appeared in various
guises. They might have watches 70
be set. or would visit a store several
New-York tribune., 1914-03-29

spart. so that there could be no col
lusion. took him into room looking
out on the court in the middle Of the
Central Office Building, and sat ilim
down so that he could see the court
and I could not It was q grewsome
place where we sat, with nooses ana
weapons and black caps and unpieas-
ant things all about. He thought !
did not know what he saw, out
could see him start as each part ot
nv plan was put in motion.
T kept him there forty-hve min
utes. His three accompices were IN
the building, and every fifteen nm
,,tes one Of them was brought across
the courtyard in full view OF "here
no sat. I could feel him start eacn
time. although he supposed / did not
know what he saw. He was
bravado. II ever there was one. lie
would not give up a word. He kept
asking what wanted with him ana
what he had done. l had pawn
broker brought in, and the man
handed me the pistol with when
McGloIn had done the murder. The
man went out. and sat there with
the weapon in my hands, playing
with it.
"At last Banfeid, third and last OF
his associates, crossed the yard hand
cuffed TO a detective. McGloin
dropped on the floor on his knees and
begged me for Gods sake to save
him from the galows. 1 knew the
whole story, but it would be neces-
sarv for him or one Of his associates
to tell it in order that the law could
be set in motion. Even the clothes
McGloin wore, as he sat in that room
with me, had paid for"
When Byrnes asked for room in
the Stock Exchange, the better to en-
force the policing Of the financial
district, the brokers were astonished
at his audacity, but they soon louhH
that it paid. A detective was forth
coming on any alarm within two
minutes Of the time that it was given.
The dead line" was invented, and
results were prompt and far reach
ing.
Many famous crooks from all parts
New-York tribune., 1914-03-29

The insurgents are having a fight with
the Spanish troops ashore now, and II
looks awfully pretty to see the puffs of
smoke i'm the bushes; it sounds just like
wood fire cracking.
The Spanish have mortar battery, the
Socapa, which was firing at US this
morning; the shells sound just like minia-
ture steam engines coming through the
air, "choo- choo-choo-c choo," and then a
tremendous bang as they explode.
June 25th
The troops have all been landed and We
can see their camphres at night
P, who went in charge of our steam
cutter and two whaleboats, TO help get
them ashore, returned this morning; he
says the enemy made no resistance. TWO
of the infantrymen were drowned; they
went overheard with their knapsacks on
and their belts filed with ball cartridges
and sank like a shot. There was heavy
swell running, and great difficulty was ex-
perienced in getting the soldiers off the
transports, as most of them had never
seen a small boat before, and instead OF
waiting for the boats alongside to rise on
the top of the roll they climbed down
the sea ladders and threw themselves in.
regardless of where the boats were, land
ing sprawling, rifle and all. usually on
the head of one of the boats crew.
regimental commander in getting In
his boat put his foot on her gunwale as
she was coming up with the swell; his
knee sot caught under one of the rungs
OF the sea ladder. and as something had
to give, his leg was broken between the
ankle and the knee and he is out of the
campaign at its very beginning. Imagine
how he must feel
There being no barges TO transport the
horses and mules they were thrown over
board. the idea apparently being that
they would make the best Of their way
ashore Most of them did so, but not
nconsiderabe number headed out to sea
4 cavalry trumpeter ran down on tho
beach sounding the assembly, and all the
horses swung around as if on drill ano
headed for the sound of the trumpet. Thl
mules kept on and were drowned
We can see the Spanish flag over Morrc
very plainly from here; one Of the dis
New-York tribune., 1914-03-29

originated the dead line" the rob-
berries in the financial district totalled
more than S1,000,000. When the
dead line" went into force they were
reduced to practically nullity.
Sneak thieves, 'pennyweighters,
window smashers and paper work
ers" decided to take their talents to
other fields. Whether they were
guilty of any crime or not, as soon
as they set foot across the line at
Fulton street they were arrested.
This NAV not have been in accord
ance with the notions Of fair play
that have become current in the Po-
lice Department since that time, but
il had a wonderfully salutary effect
in the saving Of money and jewels.
A thief is a thief, not citizen.
That was the theory of Inspector
Byrnes, who found no method OF
handling crooks too harsh, providing
il resulted i'm conviction or public
safety. Byrnes was the man who
first reduced the much talked Of
third degree" to a science. He was
feared by the underworld more than
any man on the police force before or
since his time.
His method was well illustrated by
the case Of a murderer named Nc
Gloin. who had killed a Frenchman
in a particularly revolving manner.
There was little evidence against the
criminal until Inspector Byrnes took
him in hand Then there was all that
was needed Byrnes himself has
told the story of how he secured the
evidence against this criminal.