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12 JUBILANT Are Police and Bankers Over the Clever Capture of Noted Swindlers. Developments Show Gang Was a Dangerous One. Gordon Expected To Make Complete Confession. Wept When Questioned By Pinkerton Man -More Arrests Expected By-Colonel Millikin. That the arrest of H.

B. Gordon and Robert Knox, the leaders of the gang of check raisers, was of national significance to banking circles was attested yesterday by 1 the receipt at police headquarters of many telegrame of congratulation. The messages were sent by the officials of many banks throughout the country who have been worried for several months by the stupendous operations of the crooks. Although Knox the "Scratcher" several of his confederates were in this city the early part of February, and it was from here that the raised checks were sent to H. B.

Gordon, the "layer down" for the gang, who was at Muncie, it is not be. leved that any of the Cincinnati banks were caught. The Cashier of every financial institution in this city, however, is making a careful inventory of the checks, and should any of the raised ones be found they will 1m- mediately be handed to Chief of Police Millikin. The gang WAR one.of the most dangerous criminal organizations in existence, and they operated along lines 50 shrewd and adroit as to pull the wool over the eyes of bankers and business men. It not known at present how many of the raised checks the crooks succeeded in disposing of, but it is known that they enriched themselves to the extent of many thousands of dollars through the manipulation of their scheme.

Knox Originated the Plan. Knox, who, 1.8 told in yesterday's ENQUIRER, was former lawyer, originated the plan. The others simply carried out his, instructions. Ag a raiser and transformer of checks he has nO superior in this country. He alwnys remained in the background.

Others of the gang visited small towns and at the bank in each place deposited a small amount and in return were handed cashier's checks, which are equivalent to certificates of deposit. These were of such character A8 to be easily raised. If there were perforations in the check these were filled with pulp and rolled until it would require a keen eye to detect any thing wrong with the surface of the check. If there were no perforations Knox supplied them with a contrivance made for such a purpose. All of the appliances were found In his trunk at Columbus by Detective Crtm, of this city.

Gordon, as the "layer down," had a part to play that was equally as important as that of Knox. He arranged the ofl and mining deals, and had to have the nerve and ability to hoodwink the prospective victims. Kincaid's Long Chase. Detective Kincaid returned yesterday A morning from Portiand, where he arrested Gordon just as he attempted to have cashed the check which had been raised from $15 fo $1,300. Speaking of the arrest Kincald said: to my mind, is one of the best of his kind in the country.

I am informed that he WaS a former green-goods merchant in the East, where he was successful. "He led me a merry chase. He is over 60 years old and of spare build. He wears closely cropped gray mustache, good, plain clothes, and carried a silver watch attached to heavy gold chain. He looked the part of a prosperous and solid business man, which, coupled with a ready propensity to use the Mexican salve and his ability at all times to flash a big roll, made him solid.

Portland I fell under the ban of suspicion. The Marshal of the town did not know who I was, and, thinking I was in town for no good purpose, he shadowed me. To throw him off the trail I entered the bank and walked behind the screen. Taking off my cont and hat I became busy with papers. The Marshal called the Cashier to one side and said: is that bald-headed guy over "The Cashier, who, of course, was next, said: 'He is new Bank Examiner, and about the slowest man at figures I ever "Well, that satisfied the Marshal.

"Gordon opened negotiations with the men. In the bank he dropped a check for $5,000. The oll men were with him. Gordon asked one of them to pick it and hand it to him, as he was too old for such exertion. The oll man saw the figures on the check, and his respect for the was redoubled right there.

or course, that was part of Gordon's play. The nephew of the bank Cashier was used As an unsuspecting cat's-paw by myself and the Cashier. Had Offices Here. "It was the young man who became conIdential with Gordon, and who asked his uncle to stand behind him in order to close the deal for the oil lease. Twenty-six minutes before train time entered the bank and laid down the check.

We detained him and sent for the' Marshal, who arrested him. Gordon WAS completely thunderstruck. He choked up and looked sad. He never said a word to me, but he smiled a sickly sort of smile when he was led away by the triumphant Marshal. Gordon.

80 it is believed, occupied apartments In a down-town office building in this city about four years ago, where he operated get-rich-quick scheme. He was quietly Informed by Government agents to abandon the business and to leave the city. He was quick to comply." Chief Millikin said yesterday: "There has been some talk about Crim and Kincaid being sent out of the city to arrest men who did nothing wrong here. Well, the gang was here. We did not know what they were here for, but presumed that they were not sojourning in this city for their health.

We knew that the local banks were in danger. and that It was necessary to shadow the criminals every moment they remained here. We became so interested in the case, which we knew would develop extraordinary features, that we decided to go through with it, and we think we acted right. got the ringleaders of the crowd. and 1 guess this department can stand for a whole lot of criticism in view of this fact.

The bankers of this country are the custodians of finance. The crooks outwitted them. Detectives Crim. Kincaid and McDermott went the crooks one better and this department deserves the credit." PINKERTON 3 Claims Large Share of Credit For Capture of the Crooks. In connection with the apprehension of Robert J.

Knox and H. B. Gordon, the check forgets, Mr. William Pinkerton claimed for his agency the credit for making possible the shrewd detective work that led up to the arrest of the famous crooks. Mr.

Pinkerton stated that to his agency came the first intimation that Knox in Cincinnati. This fact communicated to the local police by long-distance telephone from the New York agency, with the request that the local department keep on the track of the men until the Pinkertons would arrive on the ground. Two Assistant. Superintendents were on THE ENQUIRER, J.J.M DERMOTT CAL CRIM EMMETT, HINCEAD) The Three Cincinnati Detectives Who Bagged the Big Game. FIRE Protection of the City Is To Be Greatly Increased and Improved.

Four More Engine Houses Are To Be Erected. Fifty Additional Firemen To Be 00,000 Bond Issue Required. WHAT IS PROPOSED. HE Engine House near Ninth and Plum. Water Tower House at Seventh and Sycamore.

Engine House at Fifth and Smith. Engine House at Spring Grove and Queen City avenues. Modern fire signal system in City Hall. The downtown companies increased to ten men each. Four new, large fire engines.

Engine Houses in annexed territory. Fifty additional firemen. Bond issue of over $300,000. $60,000 a year additional for maintenance. The people of Cincinnati are to be given better and increased fire protection.

This was decided on yesterday at a conference in the Mayor's office. Those present were Mayor Fleischmann, Fire Chief Archibald, Members Furst and Faran and Secretary CHin Lakeman, of the Board of Public Safety. It was agreed to request Council to authorize a bond issue of from $800,000 to $350,000 for this purpose under the Longworth omnibus act. About $72,000 of this will be needed for a modern fire alarm signal system, with underground wires, which is to be installed in the City Butiding. This will bE placed where the Police Library now is.

and the library will be moved to an adJoining room. Fifty or more additional firemen will be appointed. It is estimated that it will require about $60,000 a year more to pay their salaries and for other additional expenses of maintenance. FROM SEVEN TO TEN. All of the down-town companies are to be increased from seven to ten men each.

A number of new companies will be formed, several for the down-town districts and others for the newly annexed territory of Bond Hill, Hyde Park, Evanston and Winton Place. It is the plan to have a double company at the Fourteens' Engine House, at Fifth and Smith streets, and to spend about $15,000 for a building adjoining the present house for the new company. The city already owns the ground. A new engine house is to be provided in the vicinity of the City Hall, either at Ninth and Plum or Court and Plum streets. It is also intended to spend about $50,000 for ground and a building at Seventh and Sycamore streets, adjoining the Engine House.

This is to be for the water tower, which is now kept at the Twentytwo's house, on Fifteenth street, between Elm and Plum. This is a narrow street. which causes loss of time in getting in and out, and, besides, it is considered too far out of the way. It is desired to have it further down town, near the district of factories and skyscrapers. The Hooks No.

is quartered at the Fours, on Sycamore street, below Seventh, and, with the water tower next door, it is believed, will Insure adequate fire protection for that locality. A new engine house is also to be located at the corner of Spring Grove and Queen City avenues. FOUR NEW ENGINES. It was decided to buy four additional large fire engines and other necessary apparatus. Two of the engines will be of the type costing $5,300 each and the other two $5,500 each.

These will be placed in down-town houses, and the smaller ones now there will be put in the outlying districts. In the new parts of the city the present engine houses will be remodeled where possible, and it may be necessary to build new houses in one or two of these places. An additional Fire Marshal will also be appointed in all probability. This would mean that the city would be divided into five fire districts, with a Marshal in charge of each. The new man is to have supervision of the hilltop section of the city, with the outlying territory.

The expansion of the Fire Department will be formally determined upon at the next meeting of the Boaru of Public Safety. It is the intention to increase the fire servthe central portion of the city at once, and to provide for the balance gradually. fire is absolutely necessary." said Mayor Fleischmann. "owing to the rapid growth of the city. Cincinnati growing constantly.

Large buildings and more factories are erected. The city has taken in much being new territory, and the Fire Department must keep pace with the increased demands that are being made upon it. During the few years there have been a number of past big fires, which called out all the engine comranies, leaving none for reserve to other parts of the city in case of protect other fires at the same time, With the increase in the service some companies proposed can always be held In EDWARD KINKAID DEAD. Edward Kinkald, brother of Ellis Kinkaid, and brother-in-law of Dr. Attorney A.

G. Drurs, died vesterday at the restdence of the latter, West Eighth street. after a short Illness: The decensed was years of age. The tuneral will take place to-morrow from the late residence. Rev.

Dr. Francis will officiate. BECOMES CHAPLAIN. Rev. John F.

Gallagher, who has been the private secretary of Archbishop Elder for several years, has been transferred to the chaplaincy at St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. Cumminsville. His. successor the cathedral will be Rev.

F. Everts, present at the asylum. MARCH 4, 1904 VALVES Of Elevators Missing And Tenants Had To Toil Up Te Apartments. Argument Over Contract on the Ingalls Building Leads To Ususual Complications In and Out of Court- Ellis Wants His Money, The Ingalls. Bullding was yesterday the scene of a series of exciting incidents, the climax coming last evening with the appearance of two Deputy Sheriffs armed with an order for the arrest of Mitchell Ellis, the son of W.

H. Ellis, head of the Arm of W. H. Ellis which has the contract for the erection of the Ingalls Building. A number of private policemen, who had been employed by the Ingalls Realty Company, also figured in the scene.

It was the elevators which the policemen were employed to guard, and all night they stood by the "holsters" to see that no one disturbed them. The exciting incidents of yesterday began in the morning when the elevator men arrived and discovered that the elevators would not work. Not an inch could they be budged, as the pilot valves had been taken off and carried away. By 8 o'clock, when the first of the tenants arrived, there was a bad state of affairs, and a racing and chasing to secure the missing parts of the elevator machinery, but this could not be done at once, as the elevators are of Eastern manufacture and it was difficult to duplicate the missing parts. TOILED UPSTAIRS.

All morning the 'tenants tolled up the many flights of stairs. Heavy men who nad to their offices in the upper floors groaned, and down in the basement of the building engineers and mechanics tore 1 their hair over their inability to start the machinery. In the afternoon one elevator was started, and almost immediately stopped, because some person had gone to the basement and again removed the pilot valve. This brought about an order for the arrest of Mitchell Ellis for contempt of Court. The order was issued by Judge Rufus B.

Smith, who had but a short time before issued an order restraining W. 'H. Ellts Co. from Interfering with the tenants of the Ingalls Building. The young man was not arrested, as the two Deputy Sheriffs, Hauser and Jones, were at a disadvantage in that they did not know him by sight, and, although he was in the immediate neighborhood of the building, they could not find him.

Judge Smith, who had. 1 been waiting for him to be brought to the courthouse, communicated with and directed that if the officers found the young man to arrest him and allow him to go on his own recognizance, with notice to appear in Court this The officers finally decided to let the matter rest until this morning, when they expect to arrest him. GUARDED BY POLICE. In the meantime force of men guarded by policemen are at work on the elevators trying them in shape to run this morning. The stopping of the elevators and the strenuous time which followed were owing to a dispute which has arisen between the contractors, W.

Ellis and the Ingalls Realty Company. Ellis Co. took the contract for erecting the building for $450,000, and were to be allowed pay for extras. Their total bill amounts to 353 39, of which $392,885 has been paid. This leaves a balance of $130,418 39, and this is the amount mentioned in a mechanics' lien filed at the courthouse against the Ingalls Building yesterday morning by Ellis Co.

The claim of Ellis Co. is that the building is practically completed, and that they are entitled to their money, and that they made a demand for it on the 5th of January. Under the contract all bills must be approved by the architects, Elzner Anderson, and H. E. Kennedy, of the firm of Ellis stated yesterday that several efforts had been made to get the architects to compute the value of the work without success.

Vice President Osborne, of the Ingalls Realty Company, when he learned of the trouble consulted Judge Worthington, the attorney for the corporation, and they applied to the Superior Court for an injunction to prevent the firm of Ellis Co. from in any way interfering with the tenants, and from refusing to return the valves taken from the elevator machinery, and from permitting the mail chute to remain locked, and the order was granted. JUDGE WAS EXERCISED. Judge Worthington was in his office in the Wiggins Block a short time afterward, when Albert Witte, who has been employed as the inspector for the Ingalls Realty Company, rushed in and told him that the elevators were being interfered with again. Witte and the Judge hurried to the Ingalls Bullding and found that Mitchell Ellis was in possession of the one elevator which had been started, the elevator operator having surrendered it to him.

Judge Worthington demanded to know if young Ellis knew that an injunction had been issued by the Court against interfering with the elevator service in the build- ing. "I do not." he replied. I tell you that there has." are you?" am Judge Worthington." "Have you any papers with you concerning this matter?" Of course Judge Worthington had not, and young Ellis did not seem to be very much impressed with an injunction in which no officer or papers figured. HURRIED TO COURTHOUSE. Judge Worthington then hurried back to the courthouse, and upon his statement to Judge Smith the order for Mitchell Ellis's arrest was issued.

The fact that no written notice of the injunction was served upon the young man will be one of the points of the defense this morning. While all of this was going on somebody was very busy down in the basement, and an examination revealed the fact that again the valves on the only elevator which was in running order had been removed. This settled all possibility of starting the elevators last evening. ALLEGATIONS SET PORTH. The petition for an injunction alleges that the contract called for $450.000, subject to additions and deductions on account of alterations that might be made in the plans and specifications, to be paid monthly at the rate of 90 per cent of the value of the work in place, and 50 per cent in the value of building material on the ground, the balance to be paid 60 days after the completion of the work.

It is alleged that the work was not completed on the 31st of December, as the contract called for, nor is it yet completed. It is alleged that all the rooms in the building were rented before the 1st of last January, except one room on the eleventh floor, two on the thirteenth and one on the fourteenth, and that these facts were known to the defendants. It is alleged that there has been paid to the defendants on account of the contract $397,400. The last payment was $14.655, which was at first accepted by defendants and afterward returned with the assertion that it was not sufficient. It architect that to things properly chargi to in W.

H. trouble. yesterday nothing further to say than document died at the courthoose sets forth. That statement of mine and it story. The situation is have the butiding want our Judge Worthington said: The trouble arises over a claim for extras which the architects have not as yet bad time to exnine." The postoffice authorities yesterday placed in the Aret of the building temporary malt box, such as those used en the street cornere.

This the mall chute de still locked and Ellis Co. would not unlock it. The mail from the entire buliding had to be carried to the ground door to be deposited. Mr. M.

E. Ingalls out of the city county at this time on a trip to Egypt. VALVES RETURNED. The much sought-for valves turned to the Ingalls Building late last night by H. E.

Kennedy, of the Arm of W. H. Ellis Co. Mr. Kennedy took ceipt for them from Albert Witte, the spector for the Ingalls Realty Company, Mr.

Kennedy was seen just after he had returned the valves and said: 1. returned the valves upon the advice of Mr. J. Dolle, our attorney. We have not yet been served with any papers in the infunetion suit, and so far as we are concerned do not officially know that one brought.

However, Mr. Dolle was so and after discussing the matter with him we thought it best to return them. They are returned with the understanding that we merely wish to show spirit of obeying any mandate issued by the Court, and will not take any advantage of technicalities. The question of who is in possession of the bufiding will be settled today. as the case comes up for hearing before Judge Smith at 2 o'clock this after- PREPARING For Strike at the Mines.

Coal Will Be Stored in Western City Yards For Future Needs- -Congestion on Railroads. In anticipation of a strike at all of the bituminous coal mines in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Western Pennsylvania it is said that dealers are preparing to lay in stocks of coal that will tide them over the greater part of the summer. In the last two or three days, since it became evident that the differences between the operators and the mines were so great that a compromise was almost out of the question, arrangements have been begun for the shipment of enormous tonnage. of coal to the larger cities in the Central West, where it will be stored until 1 such time as it may be needed. Since Monday more than a hundred barges have gone up the Kanawha River to the West Virginia fields and others have gone to the Monongahela Riverto be loaded for down the river points.

The Monongahela Consolidated Coal Company, commonly known as the combine, it is said, is short at all points along the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and all the coal that can be delivered at these places within the next few weeks will be needed to supply the ordinary demands. Pittsburg has been practically shut out of the New Orleans and Lower Mississippi River towns and cities since. last spring. only a few coal fleets having been sent to those markets during the fall and winter. The Ohio River has been closed to navigation almost continuously since the latter part of November on account of ice gorges.

In the last few years the Monongahela Company has acquired several thousand acres of coal lands in the South, principally in the Birmingham district, from wnich it can draw coal to supply a part of its trade in the South, but the capacity of these mines is not sufficient to supply an of the territory that relies upon Pittsburg for its fuel. It is stated that there are 6,000 cars of coal along the Chesapeake and Ohio Road between Cincinnati and the West Virginia fields, consigned to points west of Cincinnati. These cars were started from the coal mines sometime ago, but because of the heavy business of the connecting roads in this city, the latter would not accept them, and thus forced the Chesapeake and Ohio to sidetrack them along its line. This has practically tied up the coal business on the C. and 0..

which is one of the leading coal roads with an entrance into Cincinnati. It is claimed by operators of West Virginia mines that they will not be affected to any great extent by a strike of union miners. Most of the mines in that state are open, and the nonunion miners employed in them would be able to dig enough coal to supply the ordinary demands of the companies. The greatest trouble the operators 'would encounter in case of a strike, it is claimed, would be the lack of rolling stock on the coal roads, but it is believed that with extra efforts this would be obviated. ILLEGAL a for Were All Convictions In Police Court Before Curative Act Was Passed.

All prisoners convicted and sent to the workhouse in the interim between the abolishment of the jurisdiction of the Police Court by the new code which became effective last May and the passage of the curative act which restored this jurisdiction last week were illegally convicted. This is the purport of a decision handed down by Judge Samuel W. Smith yesterday in the case of George Baker, who was sent to the workhouse some months ago on charges of carrying concealed weapons and petit larceny for terms which would aggregate about two years' or more imprisonment. A writ of habeas corpus was sworn out for him on the ground that the municipal code repealed Section 1788 of the Revised Statutes, which conferred jurisdiction upon the Police Court to try and determine finally cases of misdemeanor. This section gave the Police Court more than the simpie power to hear and bind over to the grand jury cases of the character mentioned.

By its repeal and the leaving of Section 1787 in the books the Police Court was relegated to the same power as that of Magistrates; that is, the power to simply hear testimony and hold a person charged with a misdemeanor to the grand jury for action by that body. The case was submitted first by Attorney D. D. Robinson to Judge Hollister, but he left the bench without determining the question. It was then submitted to Judge Smith.

and he has held that Baker was Illegally imprisoned, because the Police Judge had no jurisdiction to hear and determine the guilt or innocence of the accused at the time his case was before it. This holding is based on the fact that the statute which gave the Police Court the jurisdiction to hear and determine finally cases of misdemeanor was not in existence at the time Baker was tried, having been repealed by the municipal code. It advantage of this be taken by those who were convicted and sentenced by the Police Court during the time the statute was off the books it will result in the release of 215 persons now incarcerated in the workhouse and a number from the jas, The possibility also arises of recovery by those who were fined of the money they had to pay. An inflamed throat should not be neglected. Piso's Cure for Consumption heals.

AGED COLORED MAN DEAD. Armsted Brent, colored, aged 90 years, an inmate of the Crawford Old Men's Home. at College Hill, for 12 years, died suddenly yesterday. Acting Coroner Cameron found that death was due to senility. Brent was coachman for prominent families in this city 60 years ago.

His wife was burned to death on a steamboat, at New Orleans, a few years ago. Ma piFlake When you order your morning groceries, sure you impress your dealer that you not a cheap and inferior substitute. Maple flake is subject to competition to gain a bold prices and value purity turn these tions out of doors and Mapl-Flake. Send top of package for handsome Color HYGIENIC FOOD CO. Battle Creek, Mich.

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A. the scene, the work of shadowing the crimInals being under the direction of the New York and Chicago agencies of the ton bureau. Mr. Pinkerton states that it was through the efforts of the Pinkertons that the local police were called into the case and assisted it to a successful termination. MORE ARRESTS Will Soon Follow, Say Detectives Who Worked Up the Case.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER, Columbus. Ohio, March 3. -Robert Knox will make hard fight 'against being returned to Portland, for trial. He has employed Attorney D. T.

Saviors to look after his case, and after a consultation with the latter declared that he would fight his requisition to the last ditch. Detectives Crim and associates. of Cincinnati, who accomplished the arrest of the two members of the gang. have wired the Indiana authorities to hurry the requisition papers in order to prevent habeas corpus proceedings from being filed in behaif of Knox. It is said that there is a powerful influence back of Knox and his gang.

with plenty of money. Letters and telegrams of congratulationshave been coming to the city prison here to 'the detectives, both foreign and local, who were instrumental -In the capture of the men. Knox, who is confined in the hospital ward of the city prison, refuses to talk. The detectives say they have a sure case against the two, and it is intimated that other arrests are to follow over the Eastern, section of the country. They claim they have found important letters from various members of the alleged gang.

and are now In communication with authorities of several cities relative to apprehension of some of the men supposed to be implicated. Detective Crim, discussing the proposed fight to be put up by Knox, said he expected as much; that his "quarry" is a little too rood to submit tamely to arrest and removal from one state to another. "The case would lose its interest for me 11 Knox did not put up a fight," said Crim. have no doubt but that the result will be entirely satisfactory to the Indiana offcials, however." W. M.

Stephenson, Chief of the Portland (Ind.) Police Department, and the officers who arrested Gordon at that city arrived in Columbus to-day, where he will await the coming of the necessary requisition papers to return to the Hoosier State with Knox. GORDON Secures Attorneys, and Will Make Fight For Liberty. SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER, Portland, March Schoonover, allas H. B. Gordon, arrested here yesterday by Detective Kincaid and two Pinkerton men, is preparing to fight for.

his liberty. He has retained McGriff and Bergman, local attorneys, to take charge of his case and action against him will be stubbornly contested. However, a hearing will probably not be demanded for two or three days. It was not until to-day that Gordon fully realized his position, for when he went to sleep last night it was not with a knowledge of the completeness of the catch. He did not know until to-day that his ners, Robert J.

Knox and J. C. Butler, had also been arrested. He still refuses to make any statement except a general denial. He posed to-day at the jail for local photographer, who had been called by the detectives, and he offered objections.

Sheriff Joseph C. Andrews went to Indianapolis to-day to ask Governor Durbin to make requisition on the Governors of Ohio and New York for Knox and Butler, and it is expected that the other two men will have been brought here for trial before the end of the week. PRISONER Put Through Sweats By Pinkerton Men That May Be Fruitful. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Portland, March Irle, Assistant Superintendent of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, arrived here this evening to identify Gordon.

He went Immediately to the Jail and spent three hours and a half with the prisoner, putting him through a rigid sweating process. He had heard of Gordon many times, but did not recognize him as one he had ever before seen. Gordon, it developed this evening, is not yet aware of the arrest of his, two partners, and the sweating process, while not fruitful, promises to bring something of value to the officers. SuperIntendent Irle kept at the old man until the latter for the first time showed a tendency to weaken, and tears trickled down his pale cheeks. When Irle left the Jail to-night it was with a feeling that the man may make full.

confession to-morrow morning. as Gordon promised to think it over until that time. The, picture taken to-day, Irle says, is the first the man has ever had made. KNOX WELL CONNECTED. A telegram received yesterday states that Robert J.

Knox 18 a son of Rev. W. E. Knox. of Elmira, and a nephew of John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller of the Treasury.

UNWELCOME Was the News on Salary Account Learned By Lewis in State Capitol SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Columbus, Ohio, March here by another matter County Auditor Eugene L. Lewis, of Hamilton County, yesterday learned something that he did not relish. He found that the Supreme Court, which holds Itself above statute law, has now mounted over the constitution. Last year, in the case of State Auditor against Lewis, the Court decided that the special salary act for Hamilton County was Illegal, because it violated the law of uniformity.

This was In harmony with its decision in the famous Yates case, by which all special salary acts were overturned. It took the Court 15 months to find out that the first decision applied to Hamilton as well as other counties, and then performed the remarkable feat of suspending the execution of the finding that the constitution applied everywhere alike, for it handed down decree withholding the execution of Its mandate until March 1 of this year. It was expected that by that date a salary act would be passed. Yesterday Mr. Lewis made the discovery that the mandate had been Indefinitely stayed by order of the Court.

Now if the Legislature fails to pass a salary act Hamilton County will be different from the rest of the state in that it will" be the only one in which its officers receive a straight salary. In ali the rest they get tees. The constitution stops at the northern boundary of Hamilton County. BIGGER ARRESTED. BIGGER ARRESTED.

J. K. P. Bigger, of 10 East Fifth street, former saloon keeper, was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with selling lottery tickets. The warrant was sworn out by M.

L. Benedict, of the Municipal Retorin League EX-PRIZE FIGHTER And Actress Will Appear in Salvation Army Tableaux, company of 10 Salvationists will assist Commander Booth Tucker in his lecture and tableau at the Auditorium Tues. day night. This company travels with the Commander, and will reach this city Monday at 1:30 p. m.

There are eight tableaux in the lecture that is known as "Love and Sorrow." In the company will be seen a former prize fighter, Billy Smith, who is now an officer in the Salvation Army. His wife, who was once an actress with a company that she ran away from home to Join, is in the tableaux, and will contribute a number of vocal selections. Motee, the eldest daughter, will be with him. The others of the company, who will produce what is properly a religious drama in tableaux, are Lieutenant Colonel Walter Scott, Brigadier E. J.

Parker, Lieutenant Colonel Annie Osborne, Ensign Bernie Dickson, Captain Dorothy Graham and Ensign Esther Dammes. Forty officers of the Salvation Army will attend the meeting of the council at which the Commander will preside next Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. At this meeting the matter of the purchase of a alte for a citadel for the army will be passed on and other important questions will be discussed. LOST CHILDREN Are Harbingers of Springtime, Says Superintendent Crouse. A harbinger that in the eyes of Superintendent Crouse, of the Children's Home, always marks, without a doubt.

the coming of spring, is the reception at the Ninth street Home of a lost child. Two were received at the institution yesterday. They were found wandering along the streets near the Central Police Station, but the officer who brought them in could not learn who they were or where they 'lived. Both were taken to the Home and given their suppers. There it was learned that they were David and Eva Schwartz, children of a Main-street shoe merchant.

They were sent to their home. CLEW Which, It Is Thought, Will Lead To the Capture of Miss Sullivan's Daring Assailants. and widespread interest was manifested in this and other cities yesterday over the publication in THE ENQUIRER of the brutal attack made on Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, the 17-year-old daughter of J. J. Sullivan, the well-known undertaker and capitalist, which occurred last Monday evening within the doors of St.

Peter's Cathedral, when the young lady was 50 ruthlessly handled by two robbers and would-be murderers. That such a thing could have happened inside a church, and one of the 'most prominent in the city, within a stone's throw of police headquarters seemed to daze the public in general, and comment on the unusual and extraordinary crime was the subject of comment all over the city. Miss Sullivan, while still in a nervous condition as a result of the excitement of the encounter and its unprecedented occurrence, is better and will be well in a few days. Her many friends called on her yesterday with kindly expressions of concern, and telegrams and telephone messages were received by the young lady from near and distant points. The police believe they have a clew as to the identity of the robbers and are bending every effort to catch them.

As a result of the affair St. Peter's Cathedral will hereafter have lights in the vestibule and balcony at all times as a safeguard in the future. FUNERAL Stopped While Coroner Weaver Viewed the Dead Man's Body. A death certificate was held up yesterday by the Health Department and referred to Acting Coroner Cameron for investigation. As a result a funeral was delayed' while Dr.

Cameron vlewed the body and secured a history of the case. James Fleming, aged 76 years, an engineer employed at the Wilder flour mills at Sixth and Hannibal streets, died Tuesday at his home, 922 Barr street. Death was due to erysipelas, following an injury to his head, received by being struck by the engine oiler while at work January 30 last. Dr. Cleveland, who treated the case, signed the death certificate, but when it was taken to the Health Office yesterday by Undertaker Pagel the burial permit was refused until the Coroner had investigated.

Dr. Cameron was immediately notified and went at once to the house. The mourners bad arrived when Acting Coroner Cameron reached the house. He viewed the body as one of the mourners and then secured the history of the case from one of the family. Satisfied that there was nothing irregular about the death, Dr.

Cameron permitted the funeral to proceed. LANGDON FUNERAL Largely Attended By Friends of Late Wholesale Grocer. One of the largest funerals here in many months was that of William Marion Langdon, the pioneer resident and philanthropist. which was held at the Harmon Memorial Baptist Church yesterday afternoon. People in all walks of life gathered about the bier to pay their tribute to the memory of the dead.

and there were many affecting scenes during the service. Rev. H. O. Frey, Rev.

J. S. Sowers and Superintendent Wright, of the Union Bethel, had charge of the services. Rev. Frey, who had been associated with the deceased in mission work for the past 30 years, spoke most eloquently on the life of his friend.

Brief addresses were made by Rev. Sowers and Superintendent Wright. An affecting scene occurred at the close of the service, when one of the lady managers of the Glenn Home arose and told of the work the deceased had done at that institution and how the children had honored his memory by purchasing a huge wreath of the rarest flowers with the pennies they had saved. The remains were interred in the cemetery at Pleasant Ridge. OPPENHEIMER CASE.

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