The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 1

LAST EDITION IfOUB VQL. XXXI. NO. 167. BROOKLYN, TUESDAY.

JUNE 17, 1902. PRICE TWO CENTS. DEAN HOFFMAN DEAD. Was Rector of Grace Church on tho Height! From 1869 Until 1879-Dean of Theological Seminary. CUN NUT ELIDIBLE -FOR FIRE MARSHALSHIP.

CITY MUST PAY 1,200. Martin H. Leach Awarded That Sam for Injuries Received. A verdict of $1,200 was to-day awarded to Martin H. Leach in hii suit for $5,000 damage againat the city, for injuries sustained by bis being thrown from hia wagon while driving in Metropolitan avenue.

The testimony showed that the accident was caused by tbe city allowing barrels of lima and heaps of mortar to be left after dark without a light as a signal of danger. FATHER DF DISBROW IKES II STATEMENT. Declares Positively That His Son Is Alive and WelL SAYS LATTER IS INNOCENT. last What he did after that is his own business. He is not accountable to tbe people for that No, I do not know where Louis Is fit this moment.

I iouid not produce him if I wanted to now. But I have assurance that he Is in site hands and that wffen the time comes, he will be produced. My son, though married and living apart from hi wife, did pay attention to Miss Lawrence. So did Foster, who waa also married and waa at that time living with hit wife. I never knew Miss Lawrence, but my aon, J.

P. Disbrow; once went with Louis to call on the young girl. He knew that Louis had been calling on her. That was about six months ago. "My representatives are at work on the case and are hunting down every phase of it.

To-morrow I hope to be In possession of facts ou which to base my statement. I am assured, however, that my sons full innocence will be shown to the satisfaction of all. Tbe message brought to me last evening fully assured me of that. It gave me a feeling of great relief. Do you think frankly that your son, Louis, had anything to do with the deaths of Foster and Miss Lawrence? asked the reporter.

No, most emphatically I dd not!" he replied. I felt very decided from the first published account of his actions that he did not act like a man who had eommitted a crime. You must remember that he remained for thirty-eix hours after the tragedy within a radius of eight miles of Good Ground, where the tragedy waa enacted. Then on Wednesday night he registered at a hotel in Jamaica under bis own name, and he has twice been to my house since then, tbe last time on Friday. Pressed to give tbe name of his Informant or the source of his information, Mr.

Di3, brow repeated his opinion that his son was alive and would turn up within forty-eight hours. He said that tbe news of his son being alive had come from an unexpected quarter, but that ibvestigation had proved it trustworthy. -Another man, Louis Shannon, of Washington street, Jamaica, is certain he saw Disbrow last night. Shannon, who is a brakeman on the Long Island Railroad, works at night at the Jamaica station, and thinks he saw the missing man there. He had no personal acquaintance with Disbrow, but says he recognized the man from published photographs of him which Dis-brows father saya are excellent likenesses of his son.

To Exkssu Posters Body To-Morrow (SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN.) GOOD GROUND, L. June Nugent and District Attorney Liviug-ston Smith will meet here to-morrow morning, when if the necessary legal forms have been complied with the body of Clarence Foster, who met death under unexplained circumstances last Tuesday morning wijl he exhumed and an nutopjy performed. Strange as it may appear when it is considered there is a strong suspicion of a double murder having been done, the body of Dimp Lawrence who met death With Foster win not be exhumed. Since yesterday the authorities have been' able to discover' nothing new in reJ gard to the movements of Disbrow, Foster and Miss Lawrence, and tbe tragedy is as much a mystery as when the dead bodies were first found. SUICIDE STILL" II MYSTERY.

Man Who Jumped from the Bridge May Be R. F. Graves. I Soma Hold to the Belief Ho la A. Disbrow, hot Latters Father Denies It, Advices from Plattsburg.

N. to-day report tbe death of the Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D. Dean of the General Theological Seminary of the Prot-eatatn Episcopal Church, in Manhattan. He was 74 years old.

Eugene Augustus Hoffman was horn in New York City March 21, 1S29. He waa graduated in Harvard in 1848, and from the General Theological Seminary in 1851, and was ordained a priest in the Irotit-ant Episcopal Church, In 1851-53 he wos engaged in misionary work in Elizabeth, N. and waa then called to Christ Church, in Elizabeth, where he continued for ten years, after which he had St. Marys Church, in Burlington, N. until 1SG4.

During these years be built Christ Church and rectory in Elizabeth; St. Stephen's Church, in Miilbnrn, and Trinity Church, in Woodhridge. N. J. He was rector of Grace Chnrch, on Brooklyn Heights, in 1864-69, and then of St.

Mark's Church, Philadelphia, in 1869-79. He became dean of the General Theological Seminary, in New York City, in 1879. In connection with his father he endowed the chair of pastoral theology with 80.060 He was the author of several standard theological works. MBS. INNESJISE BN.

Statement from Mrs. Fannie Wenzel Read in Court She Tells About Her Meeting vith the Bandmaster in Herald Square HoteL The plaintiff's case in the suit for absolute divorce on statutory ground brought by Bandmaster Innes against his wife, Georgie Innes. was completed to-day, and the hearing of the defendant's counter suit was begun. Robert Downey, a detective of the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, was recalled for re-eross-examination. His testimony as well as that of Harold Eakins, who was called in rebuttal; was unimportant.

Eakins testified that he had seen the corespondent, Crowhnrst, near Mrs. Innes apartments in that city. Mrs. Innes took the stand for a few questions tnd was excused. Lawyer Hummel informed the Court that bit side rested.

Counsel for Mrs. Innes, Mr. Hoffman, began the defendant's case by reading a deposition of Mrs. Fannie Wenzel, of Putnam, Mass. She deposed that she met Innes in a depot in Worcester in July, 1901, and at his solicitation came to New York.

They stopped at the Herald Square Hotel. Sbe mid that Innes refused to pay her bill of $70 and tried to compromise it by giving her $6. She stated that she had gone to the Herald Square Hotel and registered nnder the name of Mrs. Thayer, telling the hotel clerk that she was sister-in-law of Innes. She wss assigned a room, and that night Innes came to her room.

He came in his night gown, retd the deposition, and sat down In a chair. I sat on his lap, and he told me what a wonderful influence I had on him. I told him I though he was very handsome. (There wes a loud lough in court, in which Innes joined.) Innes left the room early In the morning, bnt came again a few hours later. SCHLEY TO GET FULL PAY.

Senate Approves of tho Bill Giving Admiral Same Wages Retired as Active. WASHINGTON, Jnne Senate Committee on Naval Affairs to-day took action which it hopes will forever put' an end to controversy ond heart-burnings over the Sampson-Schley case. It has reported favorably the McComas bill giving Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley, who is now on the retired list, the tame pay and allowances he received as rear admiral on the active list This means that his present pay is to be increased by one-qnarter. At originally introduced, the McComas bill eontainued the following preamble; Whereas, Commodore Schley was the senior officer of onr sqntdroa off Santiago when the Spanish squadron attempted to escape on the morning of Jnly 3, 1S98; tnd, Whereas, He was in absointe command tnd is entitled to the credit due to snch commanding officer for the glorious victory which resulted in the total destruction of the Spanish ships.

The commission decided. In the Interests of harmony, to strike ont this preamble and report only the bill itself granting him the additional recognition of increased pay and allowance. SALOONKEEPER SHOT. His Assailant Jamps From Roof 20 Poet to Next One and Io Badly Injured. Daniel Cahill, a saloon keeper, of No.

509 West Fifty-fourth street, Manhattan, was shot through the right shoulder by Ernest Lncia eariy this morning at his saloon. Lncia ran to the roof of the building where (ho hn -ting occurred and jnmped twenty feet to the roof of the next building. He was badly Injured. Cahill and Luci were taken to Roosevelt Hospital. Neither man is In a serious Lucia refused to give the police his addreea or assign a cense for tbe shooting.

The police learned that Lncia came over from Brooklyn last night en a trolley car, and met William Kahler, formerly a motor-man, of No. 343 Linden street, Brooklyn. They visited a number of saloons beta sen tho Bridge entrance and the Bowery, when Kahler proposed a visit to the saloon at Tenth avenue snd Fifty-fonrth street. It wns also learned by the police that I.ucla had $1 last night, wbite bnt $06 was found in hit pockets this mormng. ti Atlantic Ave.

Tracks Torn Up and Gtes Smashed. MANY HAVE NARROW ESCAPES. Brakemen Jumped fog Lives Wh They Discovered That They Could Not Control Cars. I Eighteen rnnaway flat care, proceeding at the rate of twenty miles an hour, struck the curve in the tracks of the Long Island Railroad at Atlantic and Buffalo avenues this forenoon, smashing the gates and the guard rail and tearing up the tracks for a distance of 300 feet. Two persons near the crossing had a narrow escape from being killed.

Tbe gates and the guard rails at the point were thrown a great distance by the collision, and the rails were twisted out of shape. Miraculously, no fatality occurred, and in fact no one was injured. The cars started on their wild journey at Saratoga and Atlantic avenues. They had been stationed there preparatory to being loaded with aand and being hauled to Rockaway Beach, where the dirt was to he dumped. At 10:30 a wild-cat engine in charge of one of tbe oldest men in the employ of the company, drew up at Saratoga avenue and turned in on the same track that the flat care were on.

The flatcars were equipped with patent coupling pins. They are woiked by the engine backing up with a little force. It is claimed that the engineer backed his engine with too much force this morning. When the engine backed into the cars the pin didn't catch into that of the forward flat car, and the flat ears then began to move at a rapid rate down the incline. Two men were on the runaway cars, and they jumped when they saw their danger.

The cars' continued gaining speed as they advanced, and when they were this side of Buffalo avenue were going at a rate of twenty miles an hour, Tbe gateman at Buffalo avenue hastily closed tbe gates and rushed to a place of safety, for he realized the cars must certainly be derailed -At tbe curve on account of their speed. The turn at this point was recently made and is called a curve. 1 It is here that the tracks were moved to allow the workmen on the tunnel now In the course of construction to work. 'As soon as the first car struck the enrve tt raised from the rails about four feet, smashing Into the gates and guard rails, sending them skywards and causing a loud noise. None of the other cars followed the first one and the remaining eight were stopped by banging into the derailed ones.

Several pedestrians who were in the neighborhood at the time of the accident were in imminent peril. They ran to a place of sefetyi The shattered gates and guard rails 'were strewn about on the sidewalk, and the tracks were almost touching the sidewalk. The police say the accident was not the result of the engine backing into the tram with too much force, but because the brakes would not work. They say two hrakemen were in charge of tbe cars, and they only abandoned the cars when they found the brakes would not work. ALDERAAENJITSOFT COAL! Adopt Resolutions Calling, on Mayor to Suppress It Alderman Downing Pleaded for Its Uae on Account of tho Strike, lint AU in Vain.

At the meeting of the Board of Aider-men this afternoon Alderman Tim Sulli-Tan introduced a resolution on the soft coal nuisance. The resolution called upon Mayor Low and Health Commissioner Lederle to enforce the Sanitary Code regulating the use of soft coal Alderman Downing opposed tbe resolution. He said that if the resolution passed and the Sanitary Code were enforced now it would mean tbe closing down of hundreds of factories and the throwing out of thousands of employees because of the coal strike, which prevented the securing of anthracite coal. Downing asked Sullivan if he could cite an instance where the health of anybody had been injured by the use of soft coal. Sullivan said that he was nearly choked to denth himself on account of it.

The resolution was passed. The resolution of Fire Commissioner Stursess calling for the expenditure of $25,000 for the installation of a new fire telegraph system in Queens was approved. Alderman James amended his resolution on the ordiuanee to prevent the crowding by the street care. In its new form its ready so that during the rush hours, morning and evening, the crowding could be maintained as now. WEATHER INDICATIONS.

WASHINGTON. June for Eastern New Yotk: Fair to-night and Wednesday; warmer in the interim 'Wednesday; diminishing northwe.steily wimia. Temperature. Jane IT, tOO'i. June IT.

mot. a a. It Si. a US Hat 1 I TJ Is. TS Brymers Successor Must Be Taken from Uniformed Force.

RIVES OPINION TO STURGIS. Deciaion Knocks Ont Assistant Fire Marshal Beers anti Other Civilian Aapiranta. F'io Commissioner Sturges has been advised by Corporation Counsel that a new fire marshal for Brooklyn and Qneens to succeed the late Alonzo W. Brytuer must be appointed from the uniformed force. No formal opiuon to this effect has been made public as yet and it is possible that none may be given out, but the Fire Commissioner has been made acquainted with the Corporation Counsels views and will be guided accordingly in filling the vacancy.

The decision of Mr. Rives that the charter obliges the Commissioner to choose as fire marshal a man now in the uniformed force of the fire department makes impossible the appointment of Assistant Fire Marshal Beers or any other of the civilian candidates and opens np opportunities for members of the uniformed force to compete for the position. The Municipal Civil Service Commission will be called npon to arrange for a promotion examination and to define who shall be eligible to enter into it. Some good lawyers disagree with the opinion given by Mr. Rives.

They hold that there is nothing in the Greater New York charter which calls for the appointment of a fire marshal from the uniformed force and that ail the charter does is to make the fire marshal when appointed a member of the uniformed force. The section of the charter bearing on the subject is No. 779, which provides: The Fire Commissioner is hereby authorized to appoint and remove a fire marshal for the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Richmond and a fire marshal to be seated in Brooklyn and to exercise his powers within the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queeng. Said fire marshals shall be members of the uniformed force of the Fire Department of the city of New York. To say thst the Fire Marshal most be taken from the uniformed force is.

these lawyers declare, to read into the Charter something thst clearly ia not there. Depnty Commissioner Laimbeer Is at present at the State cgmp at PfckskiU. Chief Clerk OHara at Brooklyn Fire Headquarters said to-day that no word respecting the Corporation Counsels opinion had yet been received at local fire headquarters. WfflSHIPSJOJHEZDEU. Cabinet Decides to Send Two There for Protection.

No Message Haa Been Received From the Minister There and the President I Alarmed. I WASHINGTON, Jane the Cabinet meeting to-day It was decided to send one or two United States war vessels to Venezuela for the purpose of protecting American lives and property which are believed to he endangered on acconnt of the revolution progressing in that country. The President is considerably worried over the fact that no answer has been received to several messages sent during the past few days to Minister Bowen at Caracas. Either the cables have been cut or a censorship has been established so rigorous as to exclude even government dispatches. In the latter event, the Venezuelan authorities will be asked to explain.

The vessels which will probably be sent are the Topeka and the Cincinnati, which are now at San Juan, within forty-eight hour sail of La Guayra, the port of Caracas. Captain T. C. McLean, of the Cincinnati, will be in supreme command. The widest anthority will be given him, even to tha extent of landing marines, should such a course be deemed necessary by him.

C. JORDAN MISSING. Police Asked ta Locate Bookkeeper, Who Haa Not Been Seen Since Last Wednesday. Charles J. Jordan, a bookkeeper, 45 years old, who lived at No.

574 Wythe avenue, has been missing since last Wednesday, and to-day the police of the Clymer street station sent out a general alarm. Jordan was last seen near Gramercy Park In Manhattan. He was subject to fainting spells and it is possible that he may be in some hospital. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and has a dark complexion and hair, the latter mixed with gray; a dark mnstarhe, a round, full face, and he wore a bine serge suit, a derby hat, laced shoes and white undergarments. SPAIN' RECOGNIZES CUBA.

President Palma Notifies Spanish Foreign Minister That the Be-pnblie Has Gone Into Effect. MADRID, Jnne 17. Foreign Minister Almodover to-day received a communication from President Talma, of Cuba, notifying him that the republic had gone into effect, and the government had been established. St-nor Alinodover handed the communication to the King, who directed him to toll graph to the Spanish Consul at Havana announcing that Spain would recognize tbe new state. Lows Statement After an Inspection of the Structure.

MAYOR CLIMBED TO TOWERS. Declares That He Is Well Satisfied with Work Accomplished by LindenthaL Mayor Low tiiis morning made an inspection of the Williamsburg bridge, and when he returned to his office at the City Hall he made two very announcements. Mayor Low said that nnless the unexpected happened the bridge would be thrown open to tbe public one year from next October. Thia is the first time that tho Mayor has made such an announcement, and it can be depended on as authentic. He said also that the cable work will be finished next week.

Thnt means that the stringing of the cables wilt be completed, hut the Mayor said that the work of banding the strands would take about four weeks more. Then the cable work will be completed. Figuring from' this, the cables should be finished before the end of July. The Mayor expressed entire satisfaction with the way that Commissioner Lindenthal has been pushing the work on the bridge. He called attention to the number of strands that have been pnt in place since tbe work has been nnder the direction of Commissioner Lindenthal as against the number that were pnt in place under the East River Bridge Commission.

Tho difference, he said, ia very marked. It shows, he declared, a decide improvement in favor of Lindenthal. The strand making has gone forward rapidly since the 1st of January; it was very slow before that time, said the Mayor in speaking of the work. Ha said that shortly after assuming office, Commissioner Lindenthal had required the contractors to furnish him with a cross-section plan of the cable work, showing exactly how much has been accomplished. The commissioner haa kept hia plan on hia desk and every time a new strand ia put in place he marks it on the plan 0 that he knows from day to day juat what has been done and just how the work is getting on.

Mayor Low was in jovial mood and he seemed to havo thoroughly enjoyed the trip out on the swinging sran of the bridge. He took a particular interest in the work, and when he returned to the City Hail, talked as learnedly about bridge building as a regular bridge engineer. The party, which waa composed of the Mayor, Commissioner Lindenthal and some of the department engineers, started from the Manhattan terminal of the bridge about 10 o'clock thia morning. Then they went to the foot of the big tower, which Is 360 feet high, and asked if there was an elevator. There was not, hut the Mayor was not dismayed.

"How did yon get to the top, Mr. Mayor? was asked. "By these elevators. replied 51 r. Low, he slapped his thighs and smiled.

Yon mean to say that you walked ail the way? Yes, there are ladders there. It wag a rather dirty trip, but my chief concern was for my Panama bat I carried it iu my hand all the way to the top. Aside from being a little out of breath as a result of snrh long climb, the Mayor said that he did not experience any ill effects from the trip. This feat of the Mayor la jnst a little remarkable. There are many athletic men much younger than Mayor Low who would shrink from such a trip.

The only means of reaching the top of the tower is by the criss-cross ladders, and all the time the climber ia exposed to the winds. There was a very high wmd this morning, bnt it did not scare Mayor Low at all; indeed, he seemed rather to enjoy it, for his face waa flushed, and his eyes were bright The party did not go all the way across the bridge. Starting from the Manhattan tower, they went out on the span ns far as the middle of the river and then returned. Sir. Lows chief objection was to the dirt.

He did not pnt on overalls, but tov-ered his hands with gloves and kept a firm grip on his pansma. Mayor Low reached the City nail shortly after noon, and seemed to be delighted with the experience of the morning. MAINE DEMOCRATS MET. 8. W.

Gould Said to Have the Majority of Candldatea for the Governorship. BANGOR, June 17. The Democratic State convention met at 2 o'rioik thi afternoon. At a meeting of the State Committee at the Bangor House last night, tile platform was discussed, and while it was not definitely formulated, it is uud r-stood that it will contain a plank strong), advocating the prohibitory law. with a second clause, favor resubmission.

Sumo doubt was expressed by a few of the as to the stand to be taken in regar 1 to the national platform, hut the eonci 11-sns of opinion is thnt it will be (J. The candidates for the nomination for Governor are S. TV. Gould, of Sknhewgnn, and Dr. G.

L. Crockett, of Thomnstou. Mr. Gould is believed to have at three-fourths of the delegates. It was announced last night that tb i name of Dr.

Seth W. Gordon, of Ibi t. land, who had been mentioned as a rr, -date for Governor, would not 1-tioned. The convention was to --der by George Hughes, of Bath, chair 1 1 of the State Commitlee, and orzi I with J. B.

Madigan, of Ilonlton, a man. ELECTION 7 BERLIN, June 17. The Sirin' Democrats carried almost einv 1 the municipal election la A Loraine to day. MAYOR AMES INDICTED. Minneapolis Chief Magistrate Accused of Offering a Bribe of $10,000.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 17. The police scandal of Minneapolis culminate 1 this morning in the arrest of Mayor A. A. Ames, on an indictment by tho Grand Jury, charging hitq with offering a bribe. The direct charge is that the Mayor promised County Comniiisionera Sweet and Nash $3,000 each to vote for Tom Brown for Sheriff to succeed Megaarden after Megaarden was removed by the Governor for irregular practices In office.

The Mayor waa arrested on a warrant this morning and arraigned before Judge Harrison. BIDES US I PITCHER. Aldermen Is Said to Have Glass Arm and Charley Horse." 4 Great Game la Expected To-Morrow When Brooklyn and Manhattan Aldermen Clash. Lovers of a good game of baseball will have an oportunity to-morrow afternoon to see just how the game should be played. The game to-morrow will take place at Washington Park, and on this occasion it will not be the "Superbas, nor the Pirates which will do battle, but no less an angust body than the Aldermen of this borough, and Manhattan.

It has long been a serious topic of conversation, this supeiiority of Brooklyn's Aldermen over the Aldermen of Manhattan, or vice versa, and to-morrows game will settle the dispute. Alderman James Bridges will lead the Brooklyn team, and Is confident that Brooklyn will triumph, for is not the only James to do the pitching. It ha been quietly circulated that Bridges is affected with a glass arm and a Joach of charley horse," but be this as it may, the citizens of the Fifth Ward who have seen their Alderman warm up are confident that the ins, onts, tips and dfdpj that Jimmy wiirhlirTaT the heads of the unsuspecting Aldermen ot Manhattan will be enough to drive them off the field in terror. A peculiar feature about this game is the apparent reluctance of any one to come forth and offer his services as umpire. Considering the little danger the umpire's life will be in.

for a special cage will be at his disposal, the difficulty in securing this most necessary adjunct to the game is causing the Aldermen much annoyance. Tbe game will be called at 2:30 p. m. TftX ARREARS MUST BE PAID. Gty Authorities Taking Action Against All Delinquents.

Thera "Ara 1,600 In Brooklyn Behind in Payments First National Bank Must Pay Its Assessment. Since the announcement of the turning over to him of the lists of delinquents for personal taxes for the year 18SI7, Assistant Corporation Counsel Saxe has kept his process servers busy serving notices of action on those who were in arrears. Many of these, in fact about 1.600, are in Brooklyn, and for the past two weeks the process servers have been looking for them. One of the most important of the Brooklyn delinquents, thnt is in point of size of the tax bill, is the First National Bank, the arrearage of which amounted to This was the assessment which the bank resisted payment on all through the State courts and finally lost in the United States Supreme Court, the decision being handed down one day before the delinquent lists were turned over to Mr. Saxe.

An assessment of $20,000 was made on the bank stock and the balance was accrued interest. It wta paid by the bank last week. The same stock was assessed aliout $19,000 for 1S98, and Mr. Saxe said that he had been notified by the bank that it would pay the amount due some time this week. Several other delinquents have come forward and paid their bills, Mr.

Saxe said, but he could not say with certainty that it was on acconnt of the decision handed down in the bank stock case mentioned, though he thonght that might have had something to do with the payments. He thought many more would pay up without further process of law hen they were made aware of the decision referred to. Thus far he has had abont thirty rctnrns by his process servers, and has filed the cases In court. He does not expect, however to have a great number of these cases commenced before the middle of July. WOMAN STRUCK BY TROLLEY.

Mrs. James Fisher, 6S years old, of No. 87 Fulton street, while crossing the track at Fulton and St. Felix streets this afternoon. was struck by trolley car No.

2.4S5 of the Fulton street line. She reoeiled a fracture of thewisht ankle and was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital. TVe Finest Ride I York and Chio or St Lo'ili iki Y'rk I ms thr'ueh tut f-M manufacturing and of AmrtUA. Preparation. Made at Good Ground to Exhnme the Body of Fo- to To-Morrow.

Thomas A. Disbrow, father of, Loula Disbrow, whose disappearance has added mystery to the deaths of Miss Sarah Lawrence and Clarence Foster, apparently drowned in Shinnecock Bay last Tuesday morning, has promised, that tomorrow be will give out a statement that will prove his son Innocence of any wrongful connection with the case. Mr. Disbrow stated to a Citizen" reporter at his borne in Richmond L. this afternoon, that while he does not.

know where his son is, and that he could not produce him just at present, still he has had absolute proof that Louis is alive, and that he can prove his Innocence. It waa rumored to-day that Louis A. Disbrow was in hiding at Jamaica, L. and that his father and brothers know where he la. This could not be verified.

Mr. Disbrow now states that neither himself nor his sons know exactly where Louis The news that the young man it alive, he said, cume last night from an unexpected but thoroughly reliable source a third party, in fact Out In Good Ground the authoritice are working hard on the case. It has been decided that Coroner Nugent must exhume the body of Clarence Foster and hold in autopsy on the remains. This will be done to ascertain whether death was really by drowning or violence. It is said In tome quarters that the inquest will Include a search of the stomach of the dead mau for possible poison.

William H. Field, a Pinkerton detective, is working on the case in the interesta of Distrief Attorney Livingston Smith, of Suffolk County. The parents and relatives of the dead man and woman declare that foul play Was Instrumental It) effecting their deaths and they insist npon a rigid examination. Important Statement From Young Dlsbrows Father. Thomas A.

Disbrow, father of Louis Disbrow, was seen at bis home on Division avenue, near Church street, by a Citi-aen reporter this noon. Mr. Disbrow said: I have no statement to give out to-day concerning my sou. I hope to have one ready to-morrow. I say, remember, that I hope to be able to give one out then.

There will be important developments in the next twenty-four hours. I have and do now more firmly than ever believe my son innocent of any wrong in connection with this case. Yesterday the stories published to the effect that it waa Louia who committed suicide by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge worried me somewhat. I thought at the time that it was just possible that, driven to extremity by the tales printed about him, he might have committed that act But all my fears were set at rest at 6 oclock last evening, when I received positive word that he was alive and well. No, he didnt send me the message directly.

If came through a third person. But it assured me that my boy is all right. I cannot, at this time, give any inkling of what I shall say In my statement. I do not know myself just now, and I am not surd that I shall be the one to givo it out. I am confident that when the proper time cornea everything will he explained satisfactorily.

There have been aensational stories printed about my sons alleged connection with the case I am keeping copies of all these papers, and when my aon has fully explained his doings and whereabouts on last Monday night and early Tuesday morning, it will be seen that he has been Innocent of any wrongdoing In the case. Says Thera Is Bo Evidence Against His Son. Miss Lawrence and Clarence Foster are dead. They were drowned. There is no evidence to Justify the wild implication of newspapers that they were victims of foul play.

The authorities did not and do not believe in anything else but tbe plain drowning theory. They have! no reason to change their opinion. The newspapers have been hounding the various person mentioned In the case, and every nerve has been stralued to make sensationalism out of nothing at all. The newspapers have got people to make mysterious statements that they know were false, just to havi something to print. Some of these people hare admitted this, I have not been active in the case my-aelf.

Neither have my sons. But I will say that I have employed others more competent than myself to sift the matter thoroughly." Have you retained counsel?" I said I have employed others draw your own conclusions. Docs that mean detectives, too?" "Draw your own conclusions you know what a man ought to do la a case of this kind." "Have you absolute proof of your sons Innocence of any wrongdoing In this rase?" No one has charged my soy with any wrong loing. We arc not nson-ilde for the fecings of the poo; Of comae, it is up to I ems to irflr ha; he did oo Mondav night tnj morning The Identity of the man who committed suicide by jumping from the Bridge on Sunday afternoon is still a mystery to the police. Several names besides that of Louis A.

Disbrow, who is wanted by the police to explain what he knows of the Lawrence-Foster tragedy at Good Ground, have been mentioned, but there is little probability of the mystery being solved until the body hag been recovered. Disbrow, who, it was at first thought was the man, in reported to be alive and well by his father, and there la a suspicion tha tthe dead man is Richard F. Groves, a young man who was employed in a Wall street bank, and who, with hia wife, to whom he had been married only a few months, lived with his father and sister in a third flat at No. 114 Lee avenue, has been missing since Sunday, and his family believes that it was be who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on that day and was drowned. Groves is 21 years old, and bis disappearance was made known only to-day.

If he had had any business troubles his friends knew nothing of it. It was learned to-day that Groves left his home early on Saturday morning and went to the bank. He worked later than usual, and on Sunday be told members of his family that he was going back to the bnnk, as he had some work todo. Ill at was the Inst seen or heard of him, and when he failed to return home Sunday night it caused alarm and a search was begun by his family. When reporters called at the mining mans house to-day his wife was said to he out and Groves father had gone to the office of the Bridge police to find out if the young man who eommittejl suicide was his son.

A sister of Groves refused to hnTe anything to say. This morning Grove father called at the Fourth Precinct police station on Washington street and told of his suspicions. He said that while his sod wos not as old as tbe man mentioned in the papers the general description tallied with that of his son, who had been missing since Sunday. When Groves left the house, his father said, he wore a blue serge suit, black cloth top gaiters and black derby hat. His son wss smooth shaven, had a dark complexion and was of a stocky build.

BODY FOUND IN RIVER. The body of a young mau about 2f years old wos found this afternoon in the water at the Long Dock. Erie Basin. The body is supposed to be that of the young man who was drowned l.i-t Sit-nrdiy while swimming from a boat St the foot of Thuty-so olid street..