St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 24, 1899

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J 7 ‘ : eS Oa. wh: wy 5 5 on uae x % SSA ; - : i : ~ * ” - 3 _ . . - “ies \; 7 ; . ¥ " ed % ok ¥ i? ‘ *, ; ; 5 . ‘ F ' J! ge : 7 “ Sr b . : : wa , co ° —_ a F > ‘ hi is eveg ’ ides 4 ee ‘ : - ~ ’ » . & ° SWORN AVERAGE SUNDAY CIRCULATION FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1899, 109, ° TEN PAGES. THE LIGHT OF THE Is advertising. Let your light gle , the : re oe . \ N J. G. JOHNSON OF KANSAS. Acting Secretary Natio nal Democratic Committee. JUDGE BIGG'S REPLY, A SUPPLEMENTAL oe OPINION EN THE COW CASE. A QUESTION OF COURTESY. Sarcastic Response Made to the Re- markable Opinion Filed By a Ma- jority of the Court of Appeals. Judge William H. Biggs of the St. Louis Court of Appeals filed & supplemental dis- senting opinion Wednesday-in the case of James T. Wasson, respondent, ageinsi Juhn J. McCook, receiver. This is the remarkabie cow case, in which Judges Bland and Bond filed a supplemental opinion Tuesday severely upbraiding Judge Biggs for filing a dissenting opinion with- out first submitting it to a majoriw of the court. They accused Judge Biggs of: dis- courtesy. “T am an. old-fashioned Democrat.” gald Judge Biggs, referring to the incident, “‘and I file my supplemental opinion to show that I know what courtesy is.”’ The opinion reads as iollows: My reason for filing a dissenting opinion in this case, in the first instance, was the state- ment in the majority opinion, to-wit: “ft is clear from all the evidence that she (the cow) was not on the track at the crossing when she was overtaken and thrown onto the pilot on the engine.”’ This alleged fact was treated as of great importance by my learned asso- clates. They bave filed a supplemental opinion that is quite remarkable in some respects. They now admit that there is no foundation 4n the evidence foi® the above statement, and they undertake to excuse thémselves for their evident lack of attention and work by ac- cusing me of concealing from them the blua- der they had made. If they had given the true histéry of the case I would haye been re- lieved of the necessity of writing this sup- plemental opinion, for had the facts been given their accusation would have been completely answered. The following are the facts: The case has been to this court twice. On the ‘first appeal’ (70 Mo.. App., 398) Judge Bond- wrote the opinion, to-which I dissented. In the first draft of the opinien he. reversed the judgment without remanding the cause. Afterwards the opinion was modified so as to remand. -Upon the second trial the. evi--. dence was substantially the same and the case was submitted to the jury precisely as directed in the majority opinion, and the plain- tiff again recoyered. On the second appeal the case was assigned to me. I wrote.an opinion affirming the judgment. That. opinion’ was fully concurred in by my associates and was filed March 21, 1899.' Against my vote a mo- tion for rehearing was sustained, and there- upon a resuimission of the case was. ordered and the task o” writing a second opinion was assumed by Judge Bland. The resubmission was ordered without. the consent of either party. Our disagreemenis were so pronounced that Judge -Bland. in pre- paring his opinien, marked me-as dissenting. thereby giving me to understand that further suggestions from me would not be entertained, of which complaint is made. I had no reason to believe that the error in the majority opin- jon was the result of a mistake or oversight. . T had read the evidence at least four times ami I took it for granted that my learned brothers had l'kewise discharged their duty. If the case had been before the court for the firat time I assuredly would have called attention to the error, but I presumed, and I was justi. filed in the presumption, that my associates had found something in the record which had escaped my attention. They now confess that their opinion rests on a false basis of fact. and they seek to escape the foree of their blunder by accusing me of bad faith or lack of cour- tesy. The plain truth is that, although the facta were under discussion at four different times the case was finally disposed of without a careful reading of the record. Litigants have the legal right to have their causes disposed of upon the records, and nothing else will or ought to satisfy them. It will be noted that when the motion for rehearing was enstained the cause was resyb-: mitted without the consent and in the absence of the respondent. Such has not been the rule of practice, and, in my opinion. there is no warrant for it. It is unjust in its operation. In this case the appellants filed an elaborate brief in sitpport of the motion for rehearing and the respondent should bave been given an oportunity to reply. W. H. BIGGS. found | This controversy is considered quite un- usual by lawyers has excited widespread interest because of the well-known personal dissension among the learned members of the Court of Appeals. PILOT OF THE MONITOR. Capt. Slover of the Heroes of the Fa- mous Battle With the Merrimac Is Dead. May %. EASTON, Md, who was pilot of the Monitor during } er ‘fight with the Merrimac in ameton Roads, is dead, aged &? years, Capt. Slover, First Peaches of the Season. The first Sees enment of peaches thi® sea- KILLED IN HIS POTATO FIELD. Assassin Fires From a. Thicket on Farmer W. H. Collins, Inflicting a Mortal Wound. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., May #4.—W. H. Col- lins was murdered on his farm near Pot- tersville yesterday. The assassin fired from ambush. The wife of the murdered man witnessed the assassination and, altnough she caught a glimpse of the slayer, she was not positive as to his identity. Collins was one of the principals in a feud which had its origin several months ago and which led Collins to shoot Andrew Fox -early in the winter. Fox recovered. Collins and his wife were working in a the shot: was fired. ins wes th a stoop- His wife was a short dis- tance away. The assassin. was concealed in a thicket of brush. Without warning there Was a loud report, a puff of smoke. and Farmer Collins fell among the potato hills. dving from the effect of an old-fash- joned rifle bullet. The terror-strickéen wife saw the assassin disappearing through the thicket of brush. She raised her husband’s head from the ground, and screamed louJ- ly for help. Other members of the family reeponded, and the wounded farmer was camied to the house. He*expired just as he was placed upon a bed. PRETTY PRINTER THRASHED, Editor Morgan’s Attractive Compositor Whipped by That Gentleman’s Wife and Sister-in-Law. ing position. HARDY, Ark., May 24.—Believing that Populist editor W. S. Morgan of the Buzz- Saw was paying too much attention to ‘Miss Ida Hall, a pretty compositor, Mrs. Morgan and her sister soundly thrashed the attractive employe with blacksnake whips. Mr. Morgan was the Populist candidate for Gdvernor last year. GIRLS FOUGHT WITH KNIVES Both Loved the Same Man and They Fought a Duel for His Possession. oe _ PARIS, May %.—Two girls, Jeanne Le Roy and Juliette Volant, fought a duel. Involved in a quarrel over a lover, they went to. a vacant lot in the outskirts of the city and fought with short knives, fright- fully cutting each other's heads and breasts. ‘They are in the hospital. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. GENERALLY FAIR. St.. Louis and Vicinity—Unsettled, but generally fair Wednesday night and Thursday. Missouri—Unsettled, but generally fair Wednes- day night and Thursday. Illinois—GeneraHy fair Wednesday night and Thursday; warmer extreme northwest portion. Kentucky—Generally fair Wednesday night and Thursday; east winds. Mississippi and Eastern Texas—Showers Wednes- day night and Thursday; variable winds, mostly from east to southeast. Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkansas and Ten- nessee—Partly cloudy Wednesday night and Thurs- day; local rains; mostly easterly winds. Indiana—Generally fair Wednesday night Thursday; variable winds. lowa—Dartly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday, preceded by showers in west portion; warmer in northeast portion Wednesday night; southerly winds. Kansas—Partly clondy Wednesday night and Thursday, with probably occasional showers; easterly winds. Stage of Water. The gauge at St. Louls Wednesday registered 23 feet, a rise of 1.2 feet. in this section will rise. and morning The rivers —_—— Sun and Moon. Sun rises at 4:42. Sun sets at 7:18. sets at 83:51 a. m. Moon Hourly Temperatures. (Government Thermometer.) m ee ae seseves » BB. ; ma in ™m jimh 06 we bee 65 ie ae In Other Cities at 7 A. M. ..o4 Kansas Citr Little Rock New Orleans Cleveland Denver Galveston Indianapolis .... .. gor was received Wednesday from Texas by nba Kiely. They were Sots “at $l a New York Chicago... e..seee---™ - cn agemes em ocrs. 88 W eete 4 ¢ 7 c . J ’ bes ; S Oe - bs rae ee ee, ee my Og oe eer es fe i ¥4 d 4 aye . - ¥ a age) Re ae a epee ees 5t ety SES OS GR re 7 E ky TTS OF in eS eee . S " Mahe & . g - 5 we b: Hae ak ee Se ‘ é % “ete aig Thaw mF 2. ae » S ef ee ie . a+. 68 eweet potato field peat pelr house when ‘ |Pothe had finished, made a statement 10 AVENGE A CAL'S DEATH Officers ofthe Law Arrive at Richview, Il. [ARE MET-WITH OPPOSITIONS. BLOSSOM NEWCOMB’S*BODY MAY NOT BE DISINTERRED. Parents of the Girl Say They Will Not Permit It—Mr. Eggers’ Trip May Prove a Frutite sless One. By a Staff Correspondent. RICHVIEW Il, May %-Circuit Attor- ney Eggers and) Deputy Coroner Ludwig of Bt. Louis arrived at Ashley at 10:30 o’clock this morning. They went there in- Stead of Nashville, the gounty seat, to secure permission to exhume the body of Blossom Newcomb. No county offcers re- side at Asley. It will be necessary for these two officers to proceed to Nashville unless they can secure the desired au- thority by telephone. The grave of Blos- som Newcomb is at this place. The ex- amination can hardly bé made until late this afternoon. “If they take my dear little Blossom’s body from its resting place, they will have to take me. They shall not harm her or take away a hair of her head. I hate St. Louis and rue the day mg child left us to go there. Ghe has come back to us dead and at rest and they shalJ not disturb her. [I will not permit her grave to be opened. I raised Blossom. right ami I do not believe that she ever did anythipg wrong. If the people in the city think our little girl did wrong let them investigate. God knows al] things and I do not fear what people may learn, but they shall nog disturb Blossom.” These and other impagsioned expressions came from Mrs. James: Newcomb, mother of Blossom Newcomb, Who died mysterious- ly in St.. Louis May. 14, when the family here was informed Wednesday morning that Circuit Attorney Eggers and Mr. Lud- wig were coming from $f Louis to exhume * the body of Bloss a ascertain by an examination mneind pr dean resulted from unmatural caust*sf ° war J . The Neweomb hoptestead is two miles from the village, -surréurded by orchards and strawberry fields. The family has lived here long. The respect of the people round about and misfortune are both theirs. Mrs. New¢gmb was expecting a caller this mornifig. Mews of the investigation be- gan in St. Louis reached her yesterday. She anticipated a visit and feared the caller would be an official, come to do what she had: vowed she would prevent. ; There was little sleep in the farm home last night. Day brought only agitation with the closer approach of climax. Mrs. Newcomb declared immediately that she would not permit Blossom’s grave to be disturbed. Mrs. Newcomb is old. She is a grandmother. She has borne the weight of woe for years. Her features and silvery hair show its Imprint, but she has not suc- cumbed to trouble. She made the declara- tion that her child’s grave should not be disturbed with determination. Her face looked almost fierce. Her bent shoulders straightened. True her foot tapped ner- vously on the white wood floor and her un- derlip quivered perceptibly, but behind the steel-mounted giasses the aged gray eyes shone brightly and with the light of unal- terable determination. The sweet breath of the strawberry flelds came in through the windows. A quail called from a distant meadow. The morn- ing breeze simmered lazily through tamali- pas trees about the house. The mother § face relaxed. Her hand sought her chair and rested her head. Her eyes softened. She turned them from the visitor and looked out through the dovr, far down the lane to where a railroad train was speeding citywards. A barefooted grandson romped into the room and laid his curly head in grandma's lap. All the harshness left her fact, moist- ure succeeded brightness in her eyes. She ciasped the lad and wept on his curls while he only laughed and wondered. She was a care-weighted mother, an avenging pa- ent. Presently Blossom’s father came up from the berry fields. The wife of Blossom’s brother also came. The family discussed the matter, and could not determine whether to offer euch resistance as lay in their power against opening the grave. Said the father: ‘‘We are Blossom's par- ents and we are the ones to be consulted first. I do not know what I shall do until the St. Louis officials’arrive here. Their course will probably determine mine.” The facts related by ‘Blossom’s parents strengthen the evidence on which Circuit ttorney Eggers expressed the belief in St. Louis Tuesday that an indictment would follow the investigation, Dr. Young of Clark avenue, who treated Blossom Newcomb after the femaie to the Post-Dispatch Tuesday which WNewcombs flatly contradicted. Dr. Young volunteered that he did not know Blossom or her sister, Mrs. Della Johnson. The presumption wes that he said this to show that, had there been any desire for eecrecy, Mrs. Johnson would have called in a phy- sician whom she knew. The parents were 'greatly surprised when informed of this. lof the family, They say Dr. Young was an intimate friend that he hed known Della Blossom for years and had treated them both. He also performed an opera- tion on Urey Newcomb within the last vear. The tact that the family acquaint- ance with Dr. Young was of such long and | standing, and that they had every confi- dence in and mother accept his statement that Blos- eom died from natural causes. Why Dr. Young's memory should lapse in the matter of his acquaintance with the Newcomb family is not apparent. The home-coming of the Newcomb sis- ters, Mrs. Della Johnson and Blossom, ten days ago, Was in the light of recent de- veiopments not what it then appeared. Blossom was dead. With Mrs. Johnson came Otto Senn, a city chap of 19 or ® years. The old folks had never seen Senn or heard of him, except in a letter months ago. Mrs. Johnson told her parents that Senn and Blossom were to have been mar- ried May 18. Senn came to mourn at the burial of his dead flancee. The father and | mother received him as @& member of the | family. sharing their grief. Senn and Mrs, | Johnson went in the funeral cortege. | placed flowers on the mound, and ‘the and Mrs. Johnson departed for St, the following day. 'som's death came to the Newcomb home at midnight of the day it occurred, in a tele gram from Mrs. Johnson, prior Blossom was on a sick bed at @ Clark avenue. } f the customary letters from the alsters. It was written by, Mrs. Johnson read signed the | him was what made «he father | Senn Louls on. The first news of Blos- | Three days Court of Cassation, A blic whipping is promised The old folks receiwed one the President of the Co i, the next. phan Mes A a | atte, tiie | BABY MARION CLARK. (From a photograph taken one month ago. The child is 2 months old.) by her. A postscript said, ‘‘Blossom is not feeling well, she will write in the next let- er.’’ Mrs. Johnson told her rents while here at the funeral that Blossom died of - stomach trouble which they knew wa chronic with ther, and when Mrs. Johnson told them that their old friend and phy- sician, Dr. Young, had treated Blossom, they thought only of the misfortune that had taken their child's young life. Now they are open to convictid that Blossom’s death may have ‘had another cause. The Newcomb family at noon arrived at what appears to be a final determination to resist the proposed attempt to exhume the body of Blossom Newcomb. Some time after the Newcombs were seen. by the Post-Dispatch -correspondent Wednesday morning, James Newcomb, the father, went to Ashley, four miles distance. It seems that he was going there to meet Circuit Attorney Eggers of S8t. uis. It was learned by the telephone that at Ashley Newcomb was met by Harry Clayton of St. Louis, who, it is understood,’ is Mrs. Johnson's representative, if» not. .her.af- {flaneed. Mrs. Jehnson is divorced, | After a talk with Clayton, Newcomb tele- phoned to Nashville, the county seat, and engaged an attorney to legally fight the attempt. to open Blossom’s grave. Mr. gers was unable to secure the whe eeert ys authority by telephone, but .did succeed in having County Attorney Willfam Verner agree to drive from Nashville and meet him in conference at Ashley. If the County Attorney can be induced to grant drive to this place. It ts feared that physical resistence will be made by the Newcombs should the 8t. Louis officials come with authority to dis- inter the body. MISTOOK ACID FOR WHISKY. Missouri Farmer Took a Large Swal- low of the Poison and Died in Great Agony. Special to the Post-Dispatch. MARYVILLE, Mo., May 24.—Herbert Taylor, proprietor of a feed and livery stable, took a drink of carbolic acid by mistake last night and died in great agony a few minutes later. Some of his men had placed a bottle of acid in th@ harness room where Taylor kept a bottle of whisky. He went into the room last night to get a drink of whisky and got hold of the wrong bottle and took a large swallow. He walked a short distance to a drug store and died 10 minutes after reaching it. He was 34 years old and leaves a wife and two children. CAPT. COGHLAN’S COMMAND. Assigned to Take Charge of the Puget Sound Naval Station on June 30. WASHINGTON, May 24.—The naval or- ders posted to-day assign Capt. J.. B Coghlan to duty as commandant of the Puget Sound Naval Station, June W, by which time the Raleigh will be out of commission. The remaining officers of the Raleigh are also detached and placed in waiting orders on leave. Capt. Coghlan relieves, as commandant, Capt. J. G. Green. Capt. C. S. Cotton is. relieved of duty aa Captain of the Mare Island Navy Yard by Capt, W. W. Mead, and assumes com- mand of the receiving ship Independence at the same yard. TREAT T WITH CONTEMPT. Fulton Insane Asylum Managers Re- fuse to Obey the Investigators’ Recommendation. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 2%,—It has ‘been learned here that the Board of Man- | agers of the Insane Asylum at Fulton to- ‘day adopted a resolution, “that this board has the utmost confidence in the honesty, ability, virtue and movraiity of the superin- | tendent of this institution, and that we re- 'fer the people to his record in the past and to the present condition of the institution as a guarantee of his faithfuiness in the future: that the recommendation made by the committee that this board remove the superintendent from this institution we treat with the contempt which it deserves, and most emphatically decline to do so.” FINDINGS IN DREYFUS CASE. Submitted to the Court of Cassation by | President Beaupre. | PARIS, May 4.—The President of tne Civil Section of the Court of Cessation, M. Ballot de Beaupre, to<day submited to the fim M. Mazeau, . dings in the revision o | the trial of Alfred Dreyfus. ° ? a yy Rie 4 Sg: Beste ! &. Drage Sy Senna 4 * 2 a” i ‘ " , ; thot 4 a ‘ 5 tr on ¥% - £ the desired permission the entire party will ) ARE FRANCHISES 10 BE TIMED? — Significant Move of the Board of Equalization. HAS PITTS CHANGED FRONT? INDICATION THAT HE WILL VOTE RIGHT. | Railways to File Information ‘Concerning Their Business for Assessment Purposes. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFDRSON CITY, Mo., May 4.—The resolution adopted late yesterday by the State Board of Equalization requiring the street railroads to file information about their business for assessment purposes which may be used to estimate and assess their franchises was offered by Attorney- General Crow and adopted by unanimous vote. It is stated that it means that fran- chises are to be assessed. Attorney-General Crow says he is in favor of taxing them under the present law and that he will do what he can to that end. Gov. Stephens says the resolution means that the board is going to assess franchises if it can be done, That he is willing to test the matter in the court. State Treasurer Pitts gays he does not know yet what the board will do. The resolution was the same as adopted last rear and he did not knoW what action the oard will take when the information has been furnished. It is claimed here by those who know that Treasurer Pitts is expected to vote with Stephens and Crow In assess- ing franchises this time and that will: give a majority for this class of assessments, but Pitts does not say what he will do. Nobody knows what caused this change of opinion by the Treasurer, unless it is that he is a candidate for the Auditorship and hopes thereby to increase his chances with the plain people who pay taxes. At any rate, a year ago, when Attorney- General Crow, in a series of resolutions presented to the board. proposed to assess the franchises of public and quasi-public corporations. Treasurer Pitts voted with Auditor Seibert and Secretary of State Le- sueur against them and they were defeated. vated for the resolutions. Yesterday the State Board adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That all street railroads having Property assessable by «his board be re- quested to furnish the board with the fol. lowing information on or before Monday, May 29, 1899, namely: 1. The capital stock. divided. 3. The par value per share. 4. The market value per share. 5 The gross amount of bonds outstand- { ng. ht The market value of such bonds. 7. The gross earnings for their last fleca’ year. & The ne year. earnings for their last fisca) for the year 1 under which they hold thetr franchiees. of franchises are usually based. the facts required to be given by the re- vised revenue bille defeated in House and Senate. BAVE MR, CRIPLIVER A BATH. Cleaning Comunittee of Fulton Councy, Indiana, Treated a Neighbor to a Splash In the Creek. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LAPORTE, Ind., May %.—Cleaning com- County, last night. A band of men and Atripping him gave him a scrubbing He was then clothed anew from foot and returned to his home. Cripliver had been served with written notice to @bey the Jawa of cleanliness in the future. head to te neighbors, Resolution Adopted Calling on Street. Gov. Stephens and Attorney-General Crow | | ment 9% The amount of taxes and licenses pald | , ‘of P. F 10. References to all laws and ordinances | The facts required by this resolution are | those upon which estimates of the value | They are | mittee was at work in Richland Township, | Fulto visited the residence of Abraham C'ripliver, | forcit@y took him to a creek in the vicinity | Father Thinks It Is Held for Ransom. oaliiendiickensmeemsnnmmemnmet Py $1000 REWARD. The Stolen Little: Months Old, Fair+Haired and Blues Eyed; the Nurse 21 Years, 5 Feet in Height, Black Hair and Gray| Eyes. ’ is ? | _—_--o- Special to the Post-Dispatch. NBW York World offers the following reward: paid by the World to the person or per: tectives of the New York city police fores® information leading to the recovery of the child, Marion Clark, kidnapped from Cen- tral Park on Sunday, May 21, and leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who planned, executed or abet- ted said kidnapping. The Chief of Detee- tives will determine to whom this reward of $1000 shall be paid.” e* So far no trace of the child, supposed to have been carried off by a mysterious nurse girl from Arthur Clark’s home, Ne. 159 East Sixty-fifth street, Sunday morn- ing, has been discovered by the police, Almost the entire detective force of the city was busy on the mystery. Alleged clews from every imaginable source come tral Park Police Station and, the East 6ix- ty-seventh Police Station. Clairvoyants, private detectives and all sorts of persons placed themselves in evidence. It was necessary to send men to. pawne ink factories to estabiish the fact that ¢ All day tips were pure imagination. between his Clark oscillate atience,”’ Capt. I am confident that come out right. little one within afew hours, smiss your mind’the threat that she will be: dered, No one would dare do {t;” © Of the story cifculated last night abduction, Mr. Clark says: “] was a widower when I Clark, been married before. old: As I have already said, there ia other woman in the case wtio could three years. ago. “What, then, is your theory of the napping?’ was asked. . “I believe it was done for 4 ransom,” replied Mr. lark; “not necessaryy for a large one, but all we can afford tO new I am not a rich man, but I could angaw Pig raise a few hundred dollars to get my chi back. The woman who took her knew this. She was not after my child more than any other child she could get hold of to actOMe plish her purpose.”’ possessed with Carrie Jones, the missing nursegirl, as his wife, who was much taken with stories the girl told of her home, which she sald is in Duquesne, lo. The matron in charge of the cottage near which the nurse left the carriage, said that she remembered this morning that the girl said she was going up to see the bears, but when she started she went bridge over the walk toward Seventy-second street, Mrs. Clark also remembered to-day that it was the nurse's own suggestion that the child go out. It would appear from the finding of this paper in her satchel that the girl herse wrote the letter to Mr. Clark and possibly while still at his house. Carrie Jones was only with the Clark family a week. She had advertised for a situation, and her advertisement w - swered by Mrs. Clark, who engased her. Her deecription. given to the police by the Clarks, is as follows: Carrie Jones, 21 years old, about 5 feet in height, black hair, large gray eyes, pale complexion, high cheek bones. She wore a blue and white shirt wafft and a black skirt when she left the house. Mr. and Mrs. Clark live on the top floor of the brown-étone flat-house at 159 Fast Sixty-fifth street. In addition to Marion, the baby who was stolen, there is another baby between ? and 3 months old. It was to assist Mrs. Clark in the care of the two 'ing house of Knight & Brown ® The number of shares into which it Is | children that the nurse girl was hired. The address «he gave in her advertise- was the Twenty-third street branch She merely had a bos none of the clerks re- give any information of the newspaper. number there, and member her or can concerning her. The missing baby is ® months old, pretty, bine-eyed and fair-haired. Mr. Clark i« a salesman for the publishe who are ia the Presbyterian Pullding, in F.fth avenue, He said that the giri told him that eh came from the country. and that she tired of living there and wanted to cosne to work in the city. He said she did not seem to be a country girl. but she was modest, in New York 1897. and fer a Case 16, The laet kidnapping was in Albany on Aug. | ‘time it threatened to rival the Charley Rosas eo mysterious Was it. The stolen child was John Conway, #on Conway, train dispatcher at the Albany Station, The whole country was stirred up by the Conway kidnapping and rewards for the capture of those Involved were offered liberally On Auge. 3. 17%. H. G. Blake.and Joseph M. Hardy. the stolen boy's uncles. ard Al- bert &. Warner concocted the kidna ng plot in Warner's office, at 138 Broadway, thia city When the boy was found and Hardy and Riake arrested Hardy cénfeesed. Warner escaped According to it Hardy, Blake and Ware ner arranged to hold Hardy’s nephew for a ransom at $30. Hach man Was to get an equal share They went to Albany Aug. by boat drove the following day out on Schenectady turnpike, which waa te the acene of their operations. and on r return plenned to take the child away » following merning. He was to be lured away with candy and the promise of @ ride The (Ae. W est part of the plot succeeded For four days the Khinappere kept the little chtld. Negotiaticre were opened with them. and the parties mer eon the outskirts of Albauy, In a word BMiake and Hard were captured and the boy found in © shanty half starved, Warner was not captured until a month in St. Louts a fire? 2 : a a aie 5 7 * <4 - - . PAS A. oe et : “Se. b nae g be ae sy Ne i i bn et SF 4 if pouring in at police headquarters, the Cen- | Mr. Clark says he was not as much pre-- under the. (iB we Te NOT A TRACE DISCOVERED. — at hy J YORK, May %—The kidnapped | baby has not been found. To-day the New “One thousand dellars reward will ber ae - : One Is Only 20 | sons who shall furnish to the Chief of De= = who thought they saw a dollar to be made, Be IA ss * * shops, employment agencies, laundries and =” I think we shall heave ¢h i } woman's revenge was at the bot om of tee } married Mra! She had ne 16 Marion ts 20 montha. -— want to injure either of us by stealing ae e 2 ms, we ° a, . ahs, ry eS ee a