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SPECTOflS' CASE TO JUflY TO-fJIGHT SUFFRAGETTE CAUGHT WITH LIGHTED DOf.lL Wmk ONE CENT NKW YORK mum YEAH. IHtOOKIiVN, -TIJKSDAY, MAY 0, imrmtmy LAST EDITION HIGGINBQTHAM IS BROKE. ROY K. FULLER APPOINTED. CONEY SI POLICE DEFENSE Makes Announcement Hs Pays Well-Known Newspaper Man Is Sec KING'S SLAYER A SUICIDE.

Man, Who Killed Oeorgt of Ortect, Jumps from Window, LONDON, Miy Aleko Sohlnasi (It assassin of 'Ills lata King George of Over In Court. retary to Hlfhwiar Commissioner GET MILITANT AT HOTEL WITH SEWER CAVE-IN ON JOHNSON AVE. "Tha defendant la now woks, an nounnad ex-Magistrals IS. Claston Hlg glnhotham, as he tia.ndpd Magi. Irate Mil AND CLAIM IS CHARGES PERJURY ler In tha court ol Dornestlu notations Greece, to-day killed himself by leaping Carlisle.

ALHANT, Mar Commissioner' Carlisle to-dy announced the appointment of George ftlker, of Buffalo, First Deputy Commissioner, salary and Hoy Fuller, a New York newspa-parman, as secretary. from the window of th polios station where he was confined In Salonika. to-day, where ha appeared for the eighth time on charge of fulling to support his Wife and children. Tha thirty dollars was to rover tha amount ordered by the DISMISSED BOMB LIGHTED IMPERILS MANY Sehlnas, wi-j was a native of Volo, AS TRIAL ENDS killed the Kink by ahootlng Mm In tin court to be paid earn month to his faml hack while the Kins; was walking along the streets of galorilea accompanied by Mr. Fuller, who has bean appointed secretary to Commissioner Carlisle, Is well known In Xlrooklyn.

After some ly. Illsglnbotham said that he was com. pelled toibororw the money lo make the an aide-de-camp. Ha gave a an ex service on a newspaper In Watertown, payment, London Policeman Catches planation of ths crime) that In Id I ha had Old Trunk Line Believed to Jefferson County, where he was born and applied for aaalitane at tha King's rai Stanchficld Closes Case With Bitter Attack on the Prosecution. Justice Kelly Refuses Ad jouinment in Morcy-; Lott Case.

which Is also tha residence of Mr. Car Yesterday tha ex-Magistrate was held In ball for to day's hearing, and falling to secure a bondsman, he was sent Her and Tramples Fuse Just in Time. Have Collapsed for Distance of a Hundred Feet to the clly prison, where ha stayed until lisle, Mr, Fuller caino to Brooklyn and was associated with tha Hrooklyn Cltlren for a number of years. While hers he became one of the most proficient politi ses, and had been driven assy by an side de-camp. A few usya ago the doctors examined eVbinas, and afterward announced that a as suffering front tubsreuloala.

late In the afternoon, whan (Senator Will lain J. lleffernnn supplied the necessary bonds. Justice Forker, of the Court of WRAY BEGAN SUIT cal writers In, the city an1 when he exchanged the local field for that of Manhattan he brought to the N'ewX'ork Her Special Amnions signed la bond. CHURCH IS BURNED EVIDENCE IS REVIEWEp BUILDINGS IN DANGER SIX IN PLOT TO KILL KING. ald a trained capacity for publlo affairs This morning he was not present when court opened, and for moro than an hour It looked as If he would nut put In an that was Immediately and thoroughly recognised there.

Suffrage Bill to Be Voted On appearance. Finally ha strolled In but Car Tracks Probably Saved Four Arrested la Spain Two In France in Pact Against Alfonso. had strolled out again by the time his Lawyer, Whitehousc Said Many to Compromise Ilad Been Made. Gilbert Fights Hard for Murtha-r Whitman Heard for State Jury Gets Case To-night. 'r caaa was called.

The court attendants To-day in House of Commons. found him after a search through the Streets from Dropping Into Excavation. POLICEMEN'S SLAYER building. Jllgglnbotham said he waa a poor man, with no money to support hlj family and that his wife was wealthy. LONDON, May 6.

A bomb with a A section of the big trunk sewer, which BORDKACX, May Two more ar-rests wars mad to-lay by the French police In connection with the alleged plot to assassinate King Alfonso, of Spain, when he goes to Paris to visit lYesldent Polnrare. The men taken Into custody are believed to be flpanUh anarchists. Tho alleged anarchlat plot against King Alfonso wst discovered on Montpelller. through Intercepted correspondence and four alleged complratore were arrest id at Barcelona. lighted fuse attached was placed at the main entrance of the Orand Hotel at 2:30 o'clock this morning.

Tied The beginning of tha end of the famous Morey and Lott litigation Involving stveral million dollars worth of properly ajt Coney Island wai wltneasod to-day la the Supreme Court. The suit was dismissed by Supreme Court Justice William J. Kelly at tha request of Lawyer Samuel 8. Whltehouse. Mr.

Whltehouse appeared for tha Dreamland corporation, on of the defendant In the ault. The to the fuse wna a placard with "Votes for Women" printed on It. Young Murderer of Two Blue- STRIKING BARBERS HOPEFUL The barbers' strike Is reaching a conclusion successful to the strikers, according to reports from the leaders of the movement. There was a meeting hold Inst night In the Labor Lyceum on Wil-loughby avenue, and another one Is tak The last word fn the defens. of former Pollco Inspectors Sweeney, Murtaa, Thompson snd Huesry, was spoken short' ly sfter 1 o'olock this afternoon.

District Attorney Whitman began lo sum up for th. prosecution In ths middle of the afternoon, and following the charge to the Jury' by Justice Seabury, case will be in the'handi of the jury by nightfall. The defense concluded Its Impassions plea for the acquittal of the four spectors with a burst of flowery oratory A policeman said he saw Ada coats Thought to Be Hiding in Borough. Word, a suffragette, place the bomb In tho doorway, and he arrested her. Is said to be twenty or more feet In diameter, and which extends from the Brooklyn-Queens Borough line through Johnson avenue) to Union avenue, and thence under South Fifth street to the East River, has given away under Johnson avenue, about 300 feet west of Bush-wick avenue.

The sag In the pavement of the 'street is most noticeable In front of the building at 216 Johnson avenue. It Is said by some of ths workmen making repairs that the break extends from 3C0 had been marked ready for to-day Holding the struggling woman with When It wa called the attorney for the ono hand, tho policeman extinguished HUDSON TUNNEL CO. ing place this afternoon nt which It ts eirpeclod there will be attempts nt conciliation by tho boss barbers. plaintiffs, the "Morey and Jott heirs, the fuse villi his feet nnd then took WATCH STEAMSHIPS, ALSO his prisoner and the bomb to the sta- a Iked for another adjournment. Tills wag denied and the case marked "dis lon.

Mlns Ward was held for trial from John II. Htanchfleld, the noted criminal lawyer, counsel for Inspector missed." tho Bow Police Court and remnnded to Hollow ay Jail without Detectives Bounding Up Witnesses of Shooting in Manhattan Dougherty Directing Them." ball. The policeman who arrested Miss I to 230 Johnson avenue, or more than a hundred feet. Everything possible is This termination of the ault will probably mark the beginning of the end of the long aeries of snfts based on the claims of, th Morey and Lott helr to what practically amounts to all of Coney OHIO MAN WINS KLYN MY PRIZE Corporation Formerly Controlled being done to prevent more of the sewer masonry from failing, as It is feared the pavement will cave In, too. As a pre Thompson.

His speech was character lel by a vicious snd prolonged attach upon the witnesses who testified for the prosecution agalnet tho four policemen. On behalf of Murtha a dramatic appeal to win freedom was made to the Jury by Attorney Gilbert, who repr-( sented him. He denounced the prosecution and th. witnesses who had testified against the policeman. Rarely, if ever before.

In the hlstorV by McAdoo Friendly to B. R. T. Ward lost the bomb. When he started for the station, the suffragette broko from hlin and ran.

Sotting the bomb op the sidewalk, the policeman ran after her, and when he caught her and returned the bomb had disappeared, It was that Miss Ward had an accomplice. The Grand Hotel faces Trafalgar Square and has an entrance from the Strand. The Charing Cross Railway Island. They claim It by virtue of unrecorded deeds some of which date back ts the first settlement of Brooklyn and (foney Island about the middle of the seventeenth century. 'Tha oounsel for the Jielrs Is former State Senator Albert A.

Wray. He has contended that hlg clients could show Search (or the slayer of William Heaney, of "17 Prospect place, Brooklyn, and Charles Teare, the two policemen who 'were shot down In Mulberry street on Saturday has led to Brooklyn. Detectives to-day were scouring the Italian districts of the city, where they had been ted to believe Oresto Shlllitonl was hid cautionary measure inspectors of the Department of Buildings are on the lookout for any possibility of some of the buildings In the vicinity of the broken sewer collapsing through a landslide. Large forces Of men from the Departments of Sewer, Water Supply and Highways are P. J.

Coleman, of Somerset, Wrote EXCHANGE OF TRANSFERS of a criminal esse, have the witnesses for the people been subjected to suchi Best Poem On the "Battle of Brooklyn." ing a vitriolic attack as was made by Stanch" --ar succession of titles since the land was Be While this search was on other sleuths field this afternoon upon Walsh, FotV station, close at hand, furnishes a large Assessment of S8.50 a Share to Hade if financial Scheme I Approved- were watching every railroad, ferry and steamship pier In the citl; and In other making repairs, and the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and the Edison Electric Illuminating Company have gangs of employees at work fastening chains around gas mains and electrio conduits to prevent them from falling Into the excava- percentage of Its patrons. Scotland Tard has learned of air al MISS DAY GETS SECOND PRIZE cltles( a close watch was being kept on departing steamers. leged saheme of the Womens Social and Political Union to have their suppressed bought from the Indians for a kettle and a gun. Mr. Wray was not In.

to-day. I in support of his motion to dismiss the Lawyer Whltehouse, who repre-rented Dreamland and the estate of Mrs. Catherine Balmer, who died last Sunday JJaft'ernoon, submitted an affidavit In whfrh he outlined the litigation carried! The search for the slayer waa directed tlon, But No Contribution Was Consid ered Worthy of $500 Offer, So Amount Was Divided. Suffragette printed In Paris and smuggled across the Channel labeled "women's wear." Customs Inspectors at all ports of entry were warned to-day of tha plot and all packages purporting to be feminine apparel will be rigidly examined. by Deputy Commissioner Dougherty, who p-or a wecI or more motormen and kept in cloe touch with his men every conductors of Hamburg avenue cars as minute.

A special squad of men waswi passengers have felt a swaying seeking witnesses to the shooting, and whenever they 1 passed over every Tesident of the neighborhood w-as ixe section where the sewer has given closely questioned to find some one whojway, finally last evening It was dls- Plpp and Olaf Nelton, Fox's nephew. With biting sarcasm he ridiculed 'tho testimony given by these four and openly, declared that In his opinion they had perjured themselves while on the witness stand In order to get even with the Inspectors. Olaf Nelson was termed by StanchfleM a "weak-minded aenemle, one-eyed freak1 of humanity, who every on. In the courtroom believed to be a ringer." don't know how it affect you, gen-- tlemen of the Jury," pleaded the' attorney, "but it sets my pulse going In tbe wrong direction to think that a man lik Capt. Walsh, living In affluence, and still breaths while there Is a possibility of The Public Sen-Ice Commission received an application from the Hudson and Manhattan T.allw'ay Company for permission, to reorganise that corporation under a plan which will place an assessment of a share on all outstanding The 'application is signed by William R.

Willcox. the former Chairman of the Public Service It became known to-day that the mlgh't tljrow--light Jon events lescung ur covered that tne pavement between the Suffragettes were blamed bythe' police to It. ror a Kfl.ooo fire which to-day destroyed St. Catherine's Church In Newcrogs, a Commission. It was rumored that the Hudson and Manhattan and the B.

R. T. are acting In common, as pror southeaster -suburb of London. Three women were seen leaving the ohurch a prices for the beet ptfem on "The Battle of Brooklyn" have at last been awarded by the Brooklyn Institute and, be It said to the sorrow of our local talent, an Ohio man has carried off the highest award. P.

J. Coleman, M. of Somerset, Ohio, submitted the best poem out of the seventy-two contributions. on by Senator Wray for the Morey and Lott hejrs. tha institution' of this saitf; Mr.

Whltehouse In the affidavit laid liefore Justice. Kelly, "and of said other e-tldn by Albert A. Gray, persona claim. tha1' to the said Morey-Lott have'apokeh to, me at my office, and on the street, by telephone, and ojie of them on subway train, In Inquiry as to what sum of money the clients represented by me would be willing to pay to have the Morey-Lott claim and fight against them dropped." action ended to-day was begun In the formt of an ejectment suit In February, 1012, when It had been determined that tha of New York would ac rails and on either side of them was sagging. 'While a Hamburg avenue car was passing over the section part of the pavement gave way.

Investigation showed that there was an excavation under the car rails. Several men living In the Immediate vicinity poked long sticks Into the hole and found it hollow. Poles, fifteen and twenty feet were Inserted with the same result. The police of the Stags street station were at once communicated with and Capt. Burflend made a personal Inspec few minutes atter the fire was discovered.

A thorough search of the burned church by the police revealed several oil-soaked hassocks that had failed to burn up. It was surmised that similar hassocks were Rorco Lorlto. who Is said to hav admitted seeing the shooting from the doorway of his home, 247 Mulberry street, was held as a wltnees. He is a brother of Ralph Lorito, who was arrested early Sunday In the Mulberry street tenement through which the murderer made his escape. Ralph Lorlto is also held as a witness.

Through Italian boarding houses, in poolrOoms and pugilistic camps tramped detectives In their search. When the police find the Sicilian youth tln-y vision has been made for an Interchange of transfers between these companies. There are thirty-five stockholders, with 448,2:13 shares, so that If the plan Is approved a heavy assessment will fall a few persons. The re-organiiatlon plan asks for ap- Inspector Thompson going to jail; or 'of seeing Fox, that venomous snd despicable grafter whose hand was against every man, going free, while Inspector Thomp son, with a record of twenty-eight years of splendid seervice in the Police Depart ment, faces prison doors." Mr. Stanchfleld was similarly bitter toward Fox.

He called ths attention of the Jury to what he termed the "mall-clous smile" on Fox's -face as he testified Miss Sarah J. Day, formerly of this borough, but now of Englewood, carried off second honors. It was originally planned to give the winner a prlxe of 1500, offered by Charles M. Hlgglns, but the Institute used to start the blaze. Whether window smashing, house burning, bomb throwing, mall destruction and wire cutting are effective weapons In the crusade for votes for women will be known to-night, when the provsl of two mortgages, one to the tion.

He concluded the excavation under the street was a dangerous one Central Trust Company to secure a bond of JtS3.O0O.OOO and tho other to the expect a desperate fight. They hope; and notified the Sewer, Water Supply to taek him alive, but they nave reserved the right to withhold It In case none of the contributions was Guarantee Trust Company to secure an a-aingt the defendant. and Highways Departments. The gas Issue of 4,000 in bonds. The fact, -That smile reminded me." the lawyer learned that he had eworn to die fighting.

The youth is a jaroled convict, having had a term of three years and and electric companies were slso informed that their mains and conduits that the Central Trust Company is controlled by Anthony N. Brady, director of said, "of something said by Rqscoe Conklln of a witness in Utlca, 'The smile Dickinson bill goes to a vote on Its second reading In the House of Commons. The intense Interest which all England feels In the fate of this measure, which grants limited franchise to women was reflected In the crowds which early In quire part of the Dreamland site for purposes. The deeds and wills by which the Lott-Morey heirs claimed ownership were submitted to the board of commissioners to condemn the Dreamland site, and of which David F. Manning, later elected a Justice of the Supreme Court, was tha chairman.

The board did not pass upon the question of ownership but said no prlmia-facee case of ownership had been made out. Ave months in Bins Sine for burglary were In danger of falling Into the pit. Capt. Burfleld caused a large section of the street to be roped off to pre Cut short for good behavior. found really worthy of the reward.

The Judges, after due deliberation, decided that not a single one met the full requirements, and so It was determined to accord botn Mr. Coleman and Miss Day honorable mention and to give the former $300 and the latter $200 "If the police get me," he Is said to have told a friend not long before the the B. R. T. Company, and that under spread over wide desolation of his face, the dual subway contracts the local 1 a fountain of falsehooa and a sepulchre corporation and the Jersey Tunnel Com-1 for pahy will exchange transfers gave rise Mr.

Stanchfleld made a sp.clal plea for to the rumor that the same Interests con-! his client, Thompson, saying that his trol both systems. This was flatly denied alibis had given ample proof of the lat-by all concerned. Despite the fact that ter's innocence. He stated that If tbe Kuhn Loeb and Company, which Is Jurors so desired he would glsdly "show vent possible accidents, and the Hamburg avenue cars were diverted Into McKibbln street at Broadway. When the employees of the Various triple murder, "they'll only get me after my toeg curl up." the afternoon flocked to the Houses of Parliament.

Floor and galleries were packed when Speaker Lowther called the Commons together, for the resumption of the de- of the prize money. The police have cleared up the shoot The contest has been going on for i iv-iivo thnt ih. municipal departments reached the scene that considerable a. onK- of cave-in they declare! ared backing the B. R.

T. subwav contract. i the cards," by whlcli they mignt see ir many months, and. In fact, was to have been decided long: before this, but because more and better contributions were expected, the judges waited beyond the set time limit, the murder of Rizzo. The murderer slew the police when be found them cut- damage had been done and that a long time will be consumed to make repairs.

It was found that the three-foot water also working the plan to readjust the themselves how much he had received bate which began yesterday. Admission was by card only and extraordinary precautions were taken to prevent the presence of any person who might create a disturbance. None of the known militants were allowed to Hudson and Manhattan oerenaing inompson ana wnere mo mains, gas mains snd eleatrie conduits rtaiicA h. nan flnv snclal enmitv Aca list i 1 Several month, sen the, tunnel money came Irom. f9 one, te avtorne POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS.

One Man Shot and Four Policemen Beaten; Are in Hospital. STRACUSE, May Italian hod carriers and laborers, strikers, had several serious clashes with the police this morning. The police were forced to shoot. One man la In a hospital and will die. Four policemen beaten up with clubs were sagging as there waa no foundation was compelled to raise the fare charged in their tubes to distance points from BROOKLYN SUBWAYS.

enter. them as policemen. The police believe there may have beer, a feud between rival -bands of Italian gunmen seeking over the profit from tiiu The estra heavy detail of police was to 7 cents in order to meet carrying charges. to support them. The water and gas was ordered shut off until new water gates and gas gates could be constructed about one hundred feet east and west where the pavement begins to sag.

Next huge pieces of timber eighteen or twenty Not Truo That Manhattan and The on hand to keep order in the corridors Bronx Tubes Will Be First n(1 a limited number of women business of acting as guards for strike-bretakers. The Kenmare street band, with which Shlllitonl associated. Is made Constructed. were admitted to the epeaker'a end mem bbrs' galleries. And than nniv hi.n DENOUNCES I.

M. MERGER. said, abhorred the acceptance of "dirty money" any more than ne. i A dramatic and eloquent appeal tjp save Inspector John J. made by the Brooklyn man's attorney.

Abraham S. Gilbert. Before a courtroom crowded with the men and women friends of the accused Inspectors, the members jf. the Grand Jury which Indicted the Inspectors, and the jurymen trying; the case, Attorney Gilbert pleaded for more than an hour to save his client. He scored every witness of I inches square were rigged In such a TK.

e.rvla r.mnillttnll tfcl. I in yid rocks are In a hospital. JiFlve hundred policemen were Involved the battle, and It Is reported that seven strikers were wounded. up of stragglers from the "Chick" Trick manner as to hold the chains that were I passed around the water and gas mains Worse Than the American Securities -companiea by the Speaker, one of his noon denied po.ltlvely th. rumor that the eecretarleg or gomn offlcla, Te d3 subway contracts for Manhattan were to b.

had the occason th th. TJrrtfll.tr. mwA I er. Louis Poggi, 'Jimmy" Kelly "Jack" Sirocco bands. and electric conduits to prevent them Case, Lawyer Hodge Insists.

falling Into the excavation. Argument in th. suit brought by tbe The band has recently found the bus! nesa of acting as strike guards a lucra tlve one. Deputy Commissioner Dough The steel rails of the railroad company G. G.

COFFIN WILL CONTEST. wnen an enterprising suffragette Bronx extensions. chained herself to the gallery railing Th. next contract, te be let n. fr a on lne chaln an(, Broadway Jr.

Manhattan to be operate by th House until eh. fl.H hold up the pavement. Had the rails Continental Securities Company for the dissolution of the Interboro-Metmnnlitan 1 erty saald to-day that he was not sure been of ttt 0a fashioned kind, resting Uh. B. R.

T. Company, and after that a hv whether the murder grew out of the wooden It Is the opinion the prosecution, terming its evidence as a "rotten lot of testimony," and, made marked use of the lack 'of Corporation on the ground that it Is an Illegal corporation was continued before contract ror in. i niny-ixin con affront put upon Shlllitonl by Rizso, or Jof tne men charge of the repairs thst whether It was due to the men being tnere might have been a serious aeei- Judge Hough by J. Asplnwall Hodge, 'direct evidence against Murtha. The terms of the which Is not a government measure, but a private one Introduced by H.

Dickinson, Liberal, gives the right to vote to every woman who, If she were a man, would be en nvals tor tne leauersnip oi tne Dana. Qtnt. nectlon of the Fourth avenu. subway will be advertised. Every contract In the dual system Is to be let before the end of th.

year. quoted Murtha as having said: counsel for the Continental Securities Company, to-day. "If I am believed guilty of by 4u- u. lot th. ni- Mr.

Hodge began the The Board of Aiaermen movea tins afternoon to aid the of Heaney. Alderman Frank Dowllng, of Manhattan, introduced a resolution empowering the Entire Horning Session of Surro-1 gate's Court Taken by It. JSurogate Ketcham presided all morning ever tbe contested will of Oeorge G. Coffin, the prominent lawyer of Sea Gate, who left all his property to a cousin, cutting his Immediate family out entirely of any ahare In his large estate. Tbe entire session was taken up In examining a single witness, Herbert Qoldmark, of 251 West 10th street.

Manhattan, who was a law partner of tha deceased and an at BOY FATALLY HURT BY CAR. ing thai it appeared from the evidence trc't Attorne. put me on trial, and that the merger was illegal, and that It ot mValf from that i CONVICTED IN TWO MINUTES. Felice Commissioner to grant a full pen titled to be registered as a parliamentary elector In respect of a household qualification within the meaning of the franchise act of 1884, and to every woman who Is the wife of a msn entitled to be Mob Menaces Motorman, Who la Res did not matter whether or not a majority carge. But don-t convict me on this Ul i render evidence of a charge of eon-Continuing.

Mr. Hodge denounced tbe sion to 1 the patrolman widow. Mrs. Heaney, under the present law, would receive no pension because the dead patrol cued by Police. George I-arson, a schoolboy, I years old, Just two minutes elapsed from the time a Jury sitting before County Judge Greenfield left the court room before It re- thus registered and has resided In the merger of the Interboro with the Inter-: if of 877 Myrtle avenue, received probable Case Goes to Jury To-night.

testing witness to his will. boro-Metropolltan, saying that It was worse than the Northern Securities Com- i man had not served out the probationary term, but Commissioner Waldo may now set aside 1430 a year for her. The original will was made 1 quKiuymg premises auring tne required period. No oman Is qualified to be registered until she has reached the age of 23 years. mortal injuries to-day when he was run idown by a car at Myrtle and Tompkins case or uosomino iaeanara, 0 years oio, pany case or the American Tobacco The opening of the day's session, which Is the last, as it Is expected the jury w-111 get the case by to- case, both of which mergers have been I of 23 Spencer street, of the crime of 1805, leaving all the estate, real and personal, to his "dear friend and cousin" Belle Coffin Provost.

Neither the wife! i avenues. The boy was removed In The women to-day were confident tht dissolved by the Government. I uittrirHUinil. Ail. VI louiier js uib Hum POLICE MEDAL FOR M'MILLEN.

i night, was delayed. This watt was 1 dying condition to the CumBerlsnd Street member of a gang of blackbanders which the measure would win, but members nor; the two children was mentioned In due to Justice Goff. He discharged JEWELS SENT TO POLICE. the will. The other attesting witness besides GoldmVrk, was Louis A.

Cullver, of has fleeced the Italian colony In the! said that the result either way would neighborhood of Spencer street and Park he by very' narrow margin'. A woman avenue, to be convicted. He was ar- i suffrage bill, which gave the franchise I the extraordinary Grand Jury, which has been st work on the police graft loipjta, wtth a fractured skull and In- Fatrolman William J. McMlllen, of the ternai injuries. 148th Treclnct, will be awarded ths jrjon was on an errand for his mother bravery medal by the Brooklyn Cltlsens' anrt waf cr08ane tr)e roadway at the in-Medal Committee, on May 17, the occa- No.

0f cases wince met. riiur fcu Penitent Thief Believed to I their final discharge, the members of slon of the rjollce parade. Stalled Them to Headquarters. McMillan, (h( Mj.rt) nn, on Its way to the Grand Jury were highly lauded by Justice Goff for their splendid wno lives st uixeman ui.piayeo lha R)t-rood termlnsl. came along st nln -nr.

I Sll East 13tth street, Manhattan. As if to Insure no misunderstanding that hie Intentions regarding the disposition of the estate had remained the same there Is a codicil attached to the document, which differs from most codicils In that It does not change the will In a sln-Ka particular. It Is dated December 24, 1909., only to women who were householders In their own right, was deefated In March, 1913, by fourteen votes. Some members favoring female suffrage voted against It, because of the Cabinet crisis existing at the time. Though he-agreed to give the suffragists an opportunity for a votes-for-women constoeraoie courage i yw woen a.

it ja vfIv ra o( gpd. Mort6man Patrick two policemen had been ahot down by a hl. the rested last February by Detective Michael Flaschettl. Blackhand letters were found In his possession when he was arrested. The complainant was Santo Man-narlno, who waa threatened with death unless he gave up 1100.

Detectives Flaschettl, De Martini and Battalora. who a res ted the gang have been highly commended by the Judges, button, with diamond chlpe In them, all with th. letter In old Eng- Th distinguished Jurist men Bnuvn nanus waning nini I bov could step out of danger th. front nah style, are awaiting their owner at 51 rultJr McMniVn of th hlm Wlth uctl the Stat, street police headquarters. They h- through th.

mall this morning tn measure at this, season. It Is likely that attMtlon by the 1 it 1 I rlavA tn mr MP 11P tpt mrt a plain envelop post marked Station shots which felled hta two comrades. I n(um gnkt th, and wll it recommended to Police Commissioner Waldo for special mention. rremier -Asuuim dduiu in 10 it mat no similar bill should come up. In the event WITHDREW ASSAULT CHARGE.

Thomas C. Wood, the foreman, and the members of the Jury took seats In the already crowded courtroom to listen to tho closing proceedings Of the Inspectors' trial. Upon motion of District Attorney Whitman, Justice Goff again deferred passing sentence on the three self-confessed bribe vram. failed to work In time. The boy's body that the Dickinson measure Is defeated.

and addresed simply to pollco headquarters, Brooklyn. Station la East New York. Tbe police think that somebody stole Boilermaker and Saloonkeeper Were them, and then being overcome by re Alct.IU0rderlr jWOMEN FIGHT FOR REVOLVER, MEDALS FOR FLIERS. wai Jammed bneatn tne motorlox, untj Mayor Gsynar will pin ths gold medal i on McMlllen'. coat on May 17.

In behalf nunl and women of the Brooklyn Cltisen Committee. mde telnst th. motor- morse decided to send them back without betraying bis Identity. Frederick MeOuIre a saloonkeeper, of The screams of two women attracted Glenn H. Curtiss and Ousters Eiffel Id Wallabeut street, was arrested early the attention of Patrolman August man.

un wiii iiwi umit urwii icyviw Each year th. Hamilton Trust Com ble for the accident. Policeman English to-day on tha charge of felonious assault Kunaph. of the Brownsville 8 tat) on, Honored by Smithsonian. to YACHT BURNS AT SEA.

made against him by Harry Wright, a44 Watkins this morning and botlennaker. It was alleged that Me round two sngry women engaged In a pany presents through the committee a medal to the policeman who displayed tha greatest bravery during the year. Today President Edminster. of the Trust Company; Borough President Steers and Deputy Police Cjmmlswtoner Dillon held OuIre struck Wright wjth a dob. Wright takers.

Capt. Thomas W. Walsh, Patrol man Eugene F. Fox snd Ashley Shea, whoso testimony has figured so ntntly In both recent and present pollco trisls. This formality disposed of.

Justice Bee-bury replaced Justice Goff on the bench, and the last scene in tbe dramatic tril of ex-Inspectors Sweeney, Murtha. Thompson and Hussey waa ready for presentation to a tease sn4 eawaaat eou. t-room. When Mr. Gilbert cOnwt frr WSrtha, aroee to commence his final plea for bts client's freedom, the courtroom was crowded ts the doora A sensational st-eerh wss expected from Mr.

CUtort. of the Vernon Avenue Station, made his way through the crowd and rescued McNeill. He took him Into th. store where he guarded him until the police reserves srlved. The car had to be lifted before the boy could be extricated.

A call for an ambul.nco brought a doctor from the Cumberland Street Hospital and th. Injured boy was rushed to that a meeting In the Borough President JVA8HINOTOX, May l-Presentatlon Of gold medals to Glenn T). Cnrtlsa, and by proxy to Gustsve Eiffel, waa tha programme which marked observance here to-day of "Langley Day" by ths Smltn-onlan Institute. The programme to-day also Included unveiling of a tablet In La nr ley's honor. Thla evening special aeroplane flights will be made at the Washington Barraeka office to go over the records of the policemen in Brooklyn.

They considered hand to hand" battle while, as alleged, a revolver lsy on the floor near them. He placed both under arrest and when they were arraigned later before Magistrate Voorhees, Mrs. Mary Vardi, 3 years old. was paroled until to-morrow and the other, Mrs. Morse rl Balltta.

was held on a charge of felonious sseaalt The latter Is alleged to hav. pulled til gun after the two had quarreled. Mrs. Vardi Is the mother of four children. Both live at the Watklos street address.

Considerable mystery surrounds tho burning to th. water's edge of a aloop-ngged yacht which drifted! past Bandv Hook at a late hour last night. The Sandy Hook life savers west out to the reesel, but CjOuld not get cioee enough to make out b.r name. Tbera was no sign of life aboard tho boat Persons familiar with harbor craft said to-day that th. description of tbe yacht fitted thst of Oscar Howard, of Belford.

N. was so badly Injured that he needed ths aerrlcee of an ambulance doctor. After his Injuries wr dressed st the CTymer Btrmt Polios Station became so sbu.lv. was loektd up en a charge of Intoxl-Htkm. Then the two were arraigned be.

fre Magistrate Geismar in th. Manhattan Avenue Police Court Wright would rot press tbe charge of felonious araault The two were charged with disorderly terffuct an4 hrhar4 iB lecture. the various acts of bravery pvformed by the men last year, and after corned enable dtseuaalosi about the merits in each case a nrwsri irrmiia a lamMini The gold medal awarded to Gustavo Eiffel waa received by tbe French 8f Hnrtl'rt Add Fhnvphate in a of they ram. to tbe eoncrnekm that McMlllen was the hero policeman for lr.t aid decided te recognise hlf feed. atr siitn.iar..

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