The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 2

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, JTJLTi 31. 1913. JUSCEXLAtfEOUS, MISCELLANEOUS.

OFFICER JOHN E. CAHILL CITY GARBAGE PLANT NOT YET LOCATED BROWNSVILLE GETS BIG PLAYGROUP to any of the policemen on the beat?" asked Conway, at the request ot Lawyer Swift. "No, I never did," Father O'Hara responded. Father Vincent Delaney, assistant to Fulner O'Hara, corroborated the pastor and the police witnesses as to the position in which Cahill's body was lying. SHORT DINNER DE LUXE AT BelleTerreClub Hotel PORT JEFFERSON.

PARADISE OF AUTOMOBILISTS That part of Long lsl.ni where, mountain and eeashore meet. GOOD ROADS. EAST RUNNING DISTANCE via North or South Shore. Long Island ducks and chickens a spec laity. TEL.

42 l'OHT JEFFERSIMT. HOTEL "raven-hall ON THE OCEAN ADJOINING STEEPLECHASE PARK CONET ISLAND REFINED PLACE FOR REFINED PEOPLE TO UINB EA FOOD A SPECIALTY AUTO ACCOMMODATION 9 a SELECT BATHING BEACH dead policeman. He profited by the experience ot hia colleague and merely had his appearance noted. Witnesses Heard With Difficulty Owing to Bad Acoustics. Throughout the examination ot the witnesses the jurors ehowed the krenest, attention to everything that was sa'd ind done.

The acoustics ot the courtroom are so poor that It was with difficulty that they heard the witnesses, who spoke in ordinary tones, and the twelve men were contsantly craning their necks. They were Intensely Interested in the grewsome exhibits that were produced the revolver, the Jimmy, the knl'e. the blood-stoined shirt and the blue serge blouse with the knife slashes plainly showing: the night-stick, the cartridges everything that had been taken possession ot by tho police Immediately after Cahlll was found dead in the churchyard of St. Matthew's Catholic Church. Assistant District Attorney Conway, the young prosecutor who is in charge of the Homicide Bureau of the District Attorney's office, conducted the inquest 1 ke a veteran.

Thoroughly familiar wl i the minutest details of the case, he devoted comparatively little time to any of the witnesses. He shot the questions he had to ask In rapid-fire order and avoided superfluous interrogations throughout the proceeding. The exhibits were produced when Acting Captain Thompson took the stand. Each juror was given a reasonable amount of time to examine the exhibits thoroughly and also the grewsome pictures taken by the photographer of the Police Department showing Policeman Cahlll lying dead. The photographs showed the wounds in the head and body, and the pictures were carefully studied by the jurors.

Tie lawyers representing Mrs. Cahlll and Sergeant Cahlll were permitted to examine the exhibits after the jurors had looked them over. Victor L. SUuldham Tells About Flna. ing of Cahill's Body.

Victor L. Shuldbam ot 1309 Lincoln place was the first witness called. He testified about the finding of the body of Cahlll on Monday morning last at 5:35 clock. Assistant District Attorney Conway examined the witness. He said that his wife looked out of the window In the early morning and saw the body In the yard.

"When 1 went Into the churchyard found tbe body lying in a pool of blood." he said. "I did not notice the condition of the hands. "The first thing I did was to ring Father O'Htrra's bell. Then I ran to Dr. Dattlebaum's office." When you got back to the yard how did the body lay?" asked Mr.

Conway. "The body was on Its back. It was about three feet from the church door. The revolver was near the knee about a foot and a half from it. The knife and the night stick were beside the body.

"Did you notice the churah door?" asked Mr. Conway. "Yes. It was closed." "Was It ajar or closed?" "It was closed." "Did you notice it the ground was dia-turbed?" "No. I did not notice." The witness said that the right list was closed.

"Was the muzzle of the revolver or the butt toward the right hand." "I think tho muzzle was lying toward the left." Policeman J. J. Zillon was called next. Summoned to Churchyard by Shuld-ham. Says Zillon.

"What happened to attract your attention to tbe death of Policeman Cahlll?" he was asked. "Mr. Shuldham called my attention to It," he said. "I went Into the churchyard i.nd found the body lying on Us back, facing the northeast." "Did you notice if the feet were crossed?" "I did not." Zillon told of summoning medical aid. "Did you notice if the door was open?" he was asked.

"I opened it." "Then It was not locked?" "It waa not fastened; no, sir." "Did y.u notice if the bolt waa shot cr unshot?" "I did not." "I noticed a mark on the center of the door which might have been made by a chisel," continued Zillon. The witness said that wheu he came upon th. body the nightstick lay under one arm and the jimmy or chisel on the llagging. The dead policeman's night- buck vas produced and identified ly Zillon. Mrs.

Cahlll was moved aa Bbe looked upon It. Acting Captain of Detectives Thompson of the Atlantic avenue station was called to identify the revolver found next to laliill's body, and the cartridges. He took the weapon out of Its envelope and held It up. testifying that an identifying mark bad been placed upon the gun. Long-Blad'etl Hunting Knife Produced as Exhibit.

A long-bladed hunting knife, with the point of the blade set in a cork, was also produced by Assistant District Attorney Conway and Identified by Thompson as the knife found on the ground of the churchyard within arm's reach of the body of Cahlll. In the same way the thlsel discovered on the scene was also Identified, and the service revolver found lu the dead bluecoat's pocket with Its five cartridges. Thompson was then asked to produce tbe uniform which was on the body. He first unrolled the blouse, it was shown to the Jury, and the cuts made by the knife were pointed out by Thompson to each member of the panel. The cuts were irregular slits in the breast.

The long one was on the right side. Thiuniform trousers were displayed in the same manner. Mrs. Cahlll, sitting in the middle of the courtroom, leaned far forward to get a better view of them, end her lip trembled. "The front of the shield is in the same condition it was in when taken from Ca-hlll's body?" asked Mr.

Conway. "it is." "Now will you kindly produce the un- Board of Estimate Votes tp Purchase the Site. BETSY HEAD FUND TO EQUIP IT Insures to That Section of Brooklyn What Is Said to Be the Greatest Recreation Field in World. The Board of Estimate today authorized without a dissenting voice, the acquiring and laying out of the big block, bounded by Hopklnson, Blake and Oumont avenues, and Bristol street, for playground purposes. This ts the playground for which the various welfare associations of Brownsville have been campaigning for more than a year.

A large delegation of residents ot tho district, and Including the officers of the welfare associations, headed by former Alderman Drescher, waa on band In the meeting room of the Hoard of Estimate this afternoon to witness the procedure by which tbelr dream of the greatest playground in the world should become a reality. The members of the Recreation and Playground Commission were also on hand, and the vote of the board was welcomed with cheers. The park lina been made possible through I be fact that General George W. Whipple agreed that the so-called Botsy Head legacy of lo7.0u0 might be devoted to the equipment of a playground park In Brownsville, if the city would acquire a site. The matter has been hanging tire lor mouths.

The action taken today, togotber witfc tne large sum for equipment. Is said to insure the greatest recreation center in the world. New East River Park for Queens Borough. Although there was some protest by Borough President Pounds and an opposing vole by Borough President Miller of the Bronx, the board also passed the resolution authorizing the East River Park lu Queens, under the scheme of assessment proposed by the advocates of the project In that borough, and which makes the other boroughs pay most of the cost. The new park as authorized will be located along the East River, between Barclay street and Hoyt avenue, in Astoria, and will cover approximately 58 acres.

The assessment scheme for tbe park calls for a 10 per cent, assessment from the local area benefited, 35 per cent, from Manhattan, 32V6 per cent, from Queens and 22H per cent, from Brooklyn. Borough President Pounds said that Brooklyn would receive no benefit from the park at all, because of its inaccessibility from this borough, but he later withdrew his opposition and Mr. Miller's vote was the only one recorded agatntt (he park. Mr. Miller Bald the other boroughs were getting too many parks and was time to go slowly.

ASK SEABURYT0 RUN. Progressives Call on Justice to Get Him to Seek Nomination. A committee of Progressives called on Supreme Court Justice Seabury la his chambers this afternoon and requested Mm to allow his name to be presented tonight to the Committee of 110 as a candidate for the mayoralty. Justice Seabury said be had not given tha matter suffi cient attention to warrant his making a definite answer to the request. The Progressives left the conference saying tbat they would attempt to secure an adjournment tonight in order to give the Justice time to make, up big mind.

They talked of an adjournment week. 0RR WILL FOR PROBATE. The will of the late Margaret Shinoen Orr, who died July 16 last, was filed in the office of the Surrogate today for nro- bate, Tbe document was executed May 1007, and a large amount Is left to her relatives. Tbe will originally left the sum of to the trustees of the estate owned by the Diocese ot Long Island, the income to be used for the support and maintenance of Christ Church, Brooklyn. Before she died, however, Mrs.

Orr gave 115,000 to the church, and thereafter made a codicil to her will cutting down her church bequest to $25,000. All property In excess of $175,000 she directs is to go to her husband, Alexander Ector Orr. The entire estate is to go to him for life, and, on his death the estate is to be divided. Her nieces, Cloise P. Luquer and Margaret L.

Hayes, are to receive $25,000 for life each. Her nephews, Lea, Thatcher and Lynch Luquer, are to receive $13,000 each. Five cousins are to receive $2,000 each, and one cousin Is to receive $2,000 for life. Her godchild, Eleanor K. KInsolving, Is to receive $5,000.

Eight servants are given $5Q0 each, and three "faithful WOrk-erfl fnr pm" nrn e-lvon io.zft nnw. due is given to her two brothers. Lea ana iMcnuias iuquer. rne two brothers and the husband are made the executors (the will. JUDGE O'SULLIVAN'S FUNERAL The funeral of Judge Thomas C.

O'SuI-livan of the Court of General Sessions, was held from his late residence, 303 West Seventy-sixth street, at 10 o'clock this morning. The honorary pallbearers were District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, Senator James A. O'Gorman, Judges Warren W. Foster, Thomas T.

C. Crain, Edward Swann, Otto A. Rosalsky and James T. Malone; Justices John W. Goff and Charles L.

Guy; James A. Delehanty, P. J. Muilane, Forbes J. Hennessey, Thomas J.

Mulry, Edward Carroll, Emmet J. Murphy, Daniel Mechan, Thomas J. Brady and James Butler. Charles F. Murphy, who was supposed to act as one ot the honorary pallbearers, was not present.

A host of friends were In attendance to do honor to the deceased. Among them were Third Assistant Secretary of State Dudley Field Malone, Philip Donahue, treasurer of Tammany Hall, Judge3 Joseph Moss, Gicgerich and ColllnB, Arthur J. O'Keeffe. Bridge Commissioner, ex-Sheriffs Tom Foley and Nicholas Hayes, Congressman Daniel J. Riordan, former Health Commissioner Dr.

Darllng-toa, Justice Barton Weeks, James B. Regan, Supreme Court Justice Luke D. Sta-pleton, Justice Cornelius Celllns of Special Sessions. The Courts of Special and General Sessions were well represented by judsbS and also by committees of court attendants. Shortly after 10 o'clock, the funeral party.consisting of over 50 carriages, two of which contained floral pieces left the home and proceeded slowly down West End avenue to the Church of the Paulist Fathers.

Columbus avenue and Sixtieth street. Here a solemn high requiem mass was celebrated. Board of Estimate Heeds Protests Against the Use of Ruffle Bar. HART GETS BIG CONTRACT. Special Committee to Decide Upon Use of His Option on Island in Jamaica Bay, Although the definite location of the disposal plant was left to a special committee of tje board, by a last-minute amendment, the five-year contract with John J.

Hart for tbe removal of the city's garbage under a plan by which be agreed to erect a disposal plant on Ruffle Bar Island, In Jamaica Eay, was today approved by the Board of Estimate. A big delegation of citizens from the Rockaways and adjacent territory, headed by Henry A. Meyer, president of the' Jamaica Bay Improvement Association, was on hand in the meeting room of tbe Board of Estln'ate to protect against any contract which contemplated tbe erection of a garbage plant on Ruffle Bar Island. Tbe present plant, operated by the New York Sr.Htary Utilization Company on Barren Island has been the target of protests because ot the odors arising from It for yean. Street Cleaning Commissioner Edwards, in recommending that the Board agree to tbe contract with Hart, under a plan by which he Is to pay the city $487,000 in five yeafs for tbe privilege of garbage removal, tried to head off protests against the Ruffle Bar Island scheme, by saying that the island bad been mentioned only tentatively.

This was followed by brief remark from tbe members ot tbe Board, to the effect that they did not consider the contract committed the city to the Ruffle Bar disposal plant and tbat tbey would take It up to see If another and better place couldn't be found tor It. Borough President McAneny assured the protesting citizens that Ruffle Bar waB further away from the settled districts than Barren Island. Tbe citizens said it wasn't so. Commissioner Edwards again said tbat he thought Ruffle Bar might not have to be used, but tha: In any event It was worth It, because tbe contract, if passed, would effect a saving to the city of $1,137,000 In the five years the contract has to run. The members of the Board of Estimate iu voting on the motion for the contract all expressed themselves as doing so bi cause of the grea; saving to the city far outweighed any slight community Inconvenience.

was also pointed out that science Is so Improving thing that there would probably be no odor frm the Ruffle Bar plant anyway. After this discussion the board heeded the protests sufficiently, however, to make an amendment to the original contract. Under this, the matter of choosing a site for the disposal plant is left entirely In the hands of a special committee of the Board of Estimate. Despite the fact that the selection of Ruffle Bar seemed to be somewhat sidetracked, it became known after the Hart contract had been approved that be had alheady secured an option on tbe purchase of Ruffle Bar Island. He got this some time ago from Pierre Noel of Flushing.

BON VOYAGE, PRENDERGAST All Political Creeds at Farewell Dinner Favor His Re-Election. The feature which marked the farewell dinner tendered to Controller Prondi-rgast last night at the Montauk Club was th.i unanimous sentiment among the speakers, who represented all shades ot political opinion, that Mr. Prendergast should be renominated to his present office. Mr. Prendergast sails on Saturday on the Ktiiserin Augusta Victoria on his annual trip to Europe, and will be absent until September 10.

Mr. Prendergast's unique position in the coming campaign as commented upon by all the speakers. While all the political parties in the city are allied in tbe struggle to eliminate the Tammany control of the administration through the election of a Fusion Mayor, each seeming to have a particular set of candidates, It was pointed out by the speakers, they all seemed agreed upon the proposition that Mr. Prendergast should be returned as the chief financial officer of the city. Representative William M.

Calder reflected tbe views of the Republican organization. None of Mr. Prendergast's predecessors, be suld, established a record which cousi be favorably compared to tbe blgh standard which tbo present Controller set and maintained during bis tenure in office. President Frank J. Gallagher of tin Municipal Civil Service Commission also paid a glowing tribute to Mr.

Prendergast as a public official Dr. Byrne was another speaker. Among the others present were Edward Allen, Fied E. Gunnison, Denis C. Fauss, Charles S.

Hervey, George L. Terrell, Timothy L. Woodruff, Edward Allen and Jesse Fuller, and Mr. Adams. Controller Freudergast made a brief response, during which be thanked the part of well-wishers.

Cherbourg, France, will be the first city Mr. Prendergast will reach. From there he will proceed to Lucerne, Switzerland, where ho will meet the Misses Bennett, friends of the Prendergast family. After that his Itinerary will Include Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin, and in these cities he will study the systems of municipal accounting. BROOKLYN MOTORIST HURT.

Max Metzler Injured While Cranking Car at Harrisburg, Pa, Hnrrisburg, July 31 Max WeUler, an embroidery merchant of 2017 Eighty-first street, Brooklyn, broke both bones of his right arm i ere this rtternoon while cranking his touring car at Fourth and Market streets. He was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital, and preceeded on bis way up tha Cumberland Valley. onds at the moat after the shot which killed him was fired. "Fatal Shot Might Have Been Fired by Someone Else." "The shot might have been fired by someone else," said Dr. Wuest, "but he would have had to be beld tight.

Hia head would have had to be held firmly, and I don't think one man could have held his head firmly enough to have caused such a wound aa that In Cahlll's left temple. There were no powder marks on the wound, not even a smudge of powder." The witness said thai, assuming Cahlll had shot himself, he would not have had muscular force enough it he had shot himself on the left side, to have placed tbe gun on his right side. "Tbe course of the bullet was forward, was It not?" "Slightly so." Tbe doctor described the course of the bullet "as nearly straight through." "If Cahill was shot by someone, other than himself, where would hia assailant have had to hold the revolver?" "In his right hand." Dr. West aaid that If Cahlll's head was held Immovable against the side of a building or as in a vise, he might have been shot by someone else standing at his side and slightly behind bim. Could Have Been Shot Thus, if Unconscious, "Cahlll could have been shot by someone else If be was sound asleep or un conscious," he eaid, "In that case the gun would have bad to be beld tightly against the skin." "Could Cahill have made tbe wound in hlB bead after tbe knife wounds were Inflicted?" "Oh, yes." "Under any circumstances could Cahlll have stabbed himself after he was Bhot?" asked Coroner Rooney.

"No sir." Dr. Wuest testified that, assuming Cahill killed himself, it was Improbable that he fired the shots while lu a standing position. If be had, his legs would not have been crossed, as it had been testified they were when the body was first discovered. Dr. Wuest said, however, that if, stll assuming Cahlll did commit suicide, he was in a sitting posture or lying down when the shot wus fired, there wouM be nothing remarkable In the fact of his legs being crossed.

Ambulance Driver Adds Nothing New by His Testimony. Miles Williamson, the ambulance driver, testified that he did not notice whether Cahlll's feet were crossed or the church door open. The night stick, be said, lay under one arm and the revolver between the night stick and tbe body. Lieutenant Gustave Van Duzen, who reached the church yard at 6:10 o'clock, said that tbe iect ot Cahlll lay toward the door of the church and the head away from it. The hands lay alongside tbe body.

"The revolver lay there a few Inches from the fingers of the right band," he testified. "The night stick lay under the arm, between the elbow and tbe shoulder. The handle pointed toward the finger and the barrel toward the right leg. The chisel was at the foot of the church door and on the flagging. The cap was almost directly back of the head, which was Inclined straight back.

"Did you notice a track In the ground running away from tbe body?" "No, sir." "Did you notice any marks on the ground?" There were foot prints, but Follcs-maj Zillen told me they were made by the ambulance surgeon." "Was there any blood on tbe night stick?" 'Ves sir: the butt of It was spattered with blood." "Did It look to you as if the blood might bave come upon it while the de ceased was defending himself?" asked Coroner Rooney. "I could not say." Blood on Club Might Have Beep Caused by Officer's Defense. It was brought out that the blood on the stick was Just where It might have been expected- to be, if Cahill had used the club to defend himself. There was no blood on the ground between the stick and tbe head. The witness said distinctly that he did not observe any blood on the right side of the body.

Lieutenant John McKIrdy, the next witness, testified as to the position in which Cahlll's body lay, with the feet toward the side door ot the church. The left hand was close to the body and the right extended out about five inches. The right leg was crossed over the left. The nt-bt-stick, McKirdy said, was under the right arm, and the revolver laid between the right side and the arm, just a few Inches from Cahlll's right hand. McKirdy differed from Van Duzer la that the lieutenant remembered having noticed a pool of blood near the right side of the head.

McKirdy Says He Saw No Evidences of a Struggle. McKirdy also testified that there was no dirt on Cahlll's uniform, not even where the blouse and trousers were slashed. Nor did the lieutenant find any evidence of a struggle near the scene of the shooting. The ground was not marked, he said, as If a struggle had occurred, and the only marks that were visible were tbe footprints made by Dr. Hamilton, tbe ambulance surgeon.

Coroner Rooney laid considerable stress on the condition of Cahlll's night-stick. Van Dusen and McKirdy testified that there were spatters of blood on the club extending from about an Inch and a half from he end to the lash. "In your opinion," asked the Coroner, "could those blood spots have resulted from tbe deceased striking someone in defending himself?" Neither Van Duier nor McKirdy ventured to say positively that the blood spatters did not result from Cahlll striking somebody. They admitted that it could have been possible, but they Intimated It was not probable. The Rev.

Father John F. O'Hara, pastor of St. Matthews' Church, described the finding of Cahlll's body. Upon entering the churchyard, Father O'Hara said, he took hold of Cahill's hand, expecting to find a pulse beat, but Instead there was no pulsation and the hand waa cold. Father O'Hara couldn't recall whether Cahlll's arms were folded, but he did remember that the legs were crossed.

The revolver, the priest said, was lying near Cahill's right side at a point opposite the hip. He noticed Jimmy marks in the doors and discovered that the door was open and tbat the bolt had been shot. Door Bolted the Night Before, So TO INVESTORS who are tired off "marking down" their stocks and. bonds, we offer NON-FLUCTUATING 61MI.TEED MORTGAGES MORTGAGE CD. RICHARD M.

HURD, President $8,500,000 Llfcerty Street, Manhattan U4 MentagiM street, Ureeklyn DELAYMARGIMLR.R, URGES PRENDERGAST Cost Too High for Pushing Proposition Rapidly, Declares Controller. BUT SAYS HE FAVORS SCHEME. Options Extended, He Explains, to Estimat Board, Making a Longer -Wait Feasible. That th city had tremendously underestimated the cost of the proposition In committing Itself tentatively to the municipal marginal railway scheme along the South Brooklyn -waterfront was disclosed today by Controller Prendergast iu bringing tha matter before the Board of Estimate for the purpose of telling ot Its progress. The Controller said that lie was heartily 1 nfavor of the marginal railroad and did not Ilka to delay It.

but that he had found tha acquirement ot the necessary property would cost so much that it would be urgent to proceed slowly. He state I that in tha present straitened city It would be a nabsoluta prerequisite befora going any further with the proposition, tor tbe city to find out to Just what expenses it was obligating Itself. Mr. Prendergast said tbat the city's options on tbe property concerned had been extended and that the matter might well go over tor some time. It was learned that Dock Commissioner Smith recently saw to tbe extension ot the op tions.

The reason for Controller Prendergast's word tbat It would be well to proceed slowly was sbown through tbe disclosure, that where it bad been figured the whole thing would cost about $11,000,000, of which tbe olty would bave to uav 000,000, it was now shown tbat $16,000,000 wouia De tne nearer figure, with the city to pay all. At the same time, it was fcund that tbe city would not have tus money to devote to the proposition for some time and that a matter of some four millions for piers In Manhattan would have to come first. BRIDGE R. GETS FRANCHISE The Board of Estlmats this -afternoon granted the franchise to the Brooklyn and North River. Railroad Company, for the operation of a line over the Manhattan Bridge, between -the North River and tbe Flatbush avenue extension, for which tbe company has been so long contending.

When matter came to a vote there was some opposition from Borough. President Pounds, but the then went through unanimously. The 'Brooklyn and North River ts the road which is operated under the joint management of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Traction Companies, and Is the rival of the Three-Cent Line, tbe Original trolley line across the Manhattan Bridge. It bas been operated for some time under a certificate of publls necessity from the Publlo Service Commission. The passage of this franchise means that the cars of tne Third avenue line (Manhattan), which now enter Brooklyn via the Manhattan Bridge and reach PSil-ton street at Gold, will be able: to reach Fulton street at Flatbush avenue over the tracks of the Three-Cent Line on the Flatbush avenue extension.

Of course, the franchise does not provide specifically for that, but It grant the same, interests that operate the Manhattan cars at present from the North River to Fulton street via tbe Manhattan Bridge, the right to run cars over the Three-Cent Line tracks on the, extension and thus by agreement these cars through the use of the new run over the tracks of tbe Three-Cent The franchise permits the Brooklyn and North River Railroad to operate cars over the Manhattan Bridge from the Manhattan terminal to Flatbush avenue and Fulton street, provides for a- five cent fare, but prohibits the operation by the company of local cars on tbe Manhattan Bridge. This right Is Bolely granted to the Three Cant Line. in most of the remaining clauses the franchise closely resembles that of the Three Cent Line In Its terms. FILE ZIEGLER SUIT ANSWER. Deny Right of Florence L.

Brandt to Half of Estate. The trustees of the estate of William fclegler, tbe baking powder man, who died In 1905, leaving many millions to hta rinnteri inn filed their answer In tbo Supreme Court this afternoon, In the suit Instituted by Florence C. Brandt, known as Florence C. Zlegler, who sued for half of the estate on the' alle gation that she was an adopted child. uvnr n.vnnr had hia fellow trustees admit the adoption of Miss Brandt 1 by Hiegler in 1896, and also admit that the adoption was revoked In 1901 They deny her allegation tnat sne was noi oiq a thn rnvocstlnn of the adoption, and also deny that William Zlegler and her father, George W.

Brandt, made an agreement to have the young woman share in the Zlegler estate. INDEX To Classified Advertisements In Today's Eagle. Classification. Pas. Amusements tl Auction Hales 10 Automobiles 'J Dnaln, 11 Classification.

Pag. Laws of Nsw Tnrk, 10-12-13 Lesal Notices. josl and Found 16 Mhtn. Amusements. MarrUs-s llj Money Havins Opportunities 12 Ocean Steamships.

.13 iVrscnal It Proposals lj Railroads 13 Resort Sits Wanted 11 Special 12 Steamboats 12 To Let For Salell-1 Travel Vacation Cottages. 12 Wanted '11 Whers to Dins Business Notices 6 Kua.nt-ss Coastwise Corporation Notice. 'fl-12-lfl Danclnr 1 Tiesth Xotlces 1" Dentistry 8 I Educational Kxeitrl.ns Financial 14-Jo For Bxchanse 11 i Furnished 11 I Help Wanted 11 I Hotels Resorts. 12-13 Indicates Supplement He did not notice, however, the Jimmy marks on the door, nor did he observe that the bolt had been shot. Ambulance Surgeon Testifies to Con dition of the Body, Dr.

Gordon Hamilton, the ambulance surgeon who received a call to the church yard, testified that he had pronounced Cahlll dead. Tbe doctor saw no powder marks on the skin. He did not notice whether tbe skin around the point of the bullet's entry and the point of exit were burned. "1 noticed several marks on the ground around the body," said the doctor. "Some cf tbew were deeper tuan others, and about two Inches In diameter." The witness was unable to tell how these marks were made and be declared that he did not, examine the ouliel wounds carefully.

Deputy Commissioner Dougherty testified that he went from his bums sin Sheepsnead Bay to the Atlantic avenue station, to Investigate the death of Cahlll. He said he had the church door closed and bolted, and then started to Jimmy it open. As he did so tbe screws In tbe bolts gave way. A very careful examination was made of the lock before be Jimmied the door, Dougherty said. At that time no Ideutincalou' had been made of the revolver or chisel.

"It was that night that 1 established the point of the ownership of tbe revolver," said Dougherty. Coroner Rooney ouce more harped on the point of Cahill's nightstick containing spatters of blood. "Could it not be that those blood marks resulted from an effort the deceased made to defend tbe Coroner asked Dougherty. Dougherty "Cannot Answer" Ques- tion of Blood on Nightstick. "That I could not answer," he said.

"Any statement 1 might make about that would be simply an individual opinion." Policeman liilieu was recalled to testify about the weather conditions ou the uiorulng of the shooting. He said that at o'clock that morning it rained lightly and at 4 o'clock o.ulte heavily for ten minutes. When he arrived in the churchyard the ground was dry. Mr. Conway questioned Gillen with great particularity about the irregular mark which ran back to the fence.

The policeman said there was a break in it. Mrs. Cahill Self-Possessed When Called to Testify, Mrs. Cahill when called to the stand by Mr. Conway was remarkably self-possessed.

Tho Assistant District Attorney questioned her about the day before the policeman's death, the Sunday be visited his family at Hempstead. She described how he suent the day with her aua tneir five children, and said that because of the noise the youngsters made ne ueciaea iu return to their home at 120 Chestnut street. While at Hempstead he did not fire off his revolver, she said. Uuon arriving home the day of the Bhootlng, Mrs. Cahill testified, she found that her husband bad occupied tbe bed at tbelr home and had set tbe alarm fur 10:30 p.m., hia usual time for getting up when on the late tour.

Mrs. Cahill said that she was left $7,000 long before she was married to Cahlll, ten years ago. This was invested by ber in real estate, $2,500 being recently put Into property on Staten Island, "Did you ever bear of your nusDanu complalnlug ot having tubercular trouble?" 'No; I never did," she replied. Nothing Discordant in Family Rela tions, Declares Mrs. Cahill Mrs.

Cahlll laid emphasis on her testimony that there was absolutely nothing between her and her husband other than love and affection. She could provide nothing In the way of a motive. "On tbe Sunday that he visited us, the day before the shooting," she said, "he was as cheerful as he ever was. He was smiling and happy, and he asked the children bow they liked it in the country. "My husband was not in the habit of kissing me, but when he went away be snooks bands Just as he always did.

"1 know tbat my husband's gun was out 3f order, for he had complained about It, and soaked it in oil. He hud tried to shoot a dog with it and it would uot work. She could conceive of no reason, she said in reply to Coroner Rooney, who took up ber examination, why Cahill should take his life. He had everything to live for, she said, and she knew of no trouble except the little fuss occasioned over the arrest of the McCormack boy, and her husband thought nothing of it. "Now, is there anything you desire to say, Mrs.

Cahlll, any statement you wish to make?" asked Mr. Conway. Mrs. Cahill Wants to Enow About Footprints in Churchyard. "Yes," she answered, "I would like to know about the footprint marks in the church yard." "What do you mean?" asked the Assistant District Attorney.

"Why. somebody told me that there wera footprints In tte churchyard, tbat they were seen there right after my hus-bard was killed." "Who was It that told you?" "I don't know who It was. It was somebody I don't remember now." Alfred Ruggles, a neighbor of Cahlll, testlfed as to the trouble over the Mc-Cormick boy's arrest. He said Policeman Cahill had askl him to go with bim to see Reuben J. Haskell, the lawyer, as he had made a mistake in his testimony regarding the arrest of young McCorinick.

Ruggles told of tbe reopening of the case and declared that with the discharge of the boy In the Children's Court the affair was over, so far as Cahill was concerned. Cahill, ho said, was not worrying about the o-etter. Charles E. Dooling of the Eagle Garage in Atlantic avenue, told of Cahlll's visit to the garage on July 9. The policeman, who waa on duty at the time, asked permission to sharpen a knife on an emery wbeel.

Tbe witness started the wheel for Cahill, but did not see the knife which he sharpened. Cahill, he said, was in the garage about twenty minutes, and when he left his thanked the proprietor for the me of the vheel. OBITUARY JOHN R. McDOUOALU an artistic letterer and a member ot Nassau Lodge. F.

and A. and Long Island Camp M. O. died yesterday at his home. 102 Clermont avenue.

He was born In Brooklyn and was the tun of rtuncan and Margaret McDougall. LOCIS VOLL. a native of Syracuse, sged 38 years, and a resident of Brooklyn for about nfteen years died vesterday at his home, SS4 St. John place. He was In the garage business with his brother William F.

and John A who survive him. A requiem mass will be said In the St. Theresa's Church tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. NIC CL0SKEY. Many Friends Attend Last Rites for Old-Time Actor.

Funeral services for James J. Mc-Closkey were held today In the Roman Catholic Church of St. Matthew, Utica avenue and Lincoln place. The requiem mass was celebrated by the Rev. John F.

O'Hara. rector of the church, assisted by the Rev. Edward Galvin. 1 The auditorium was filled with the rel- attves and friends of the deceased, among them being many old-time friends, who had known Mr. McCloskey during his earlier days.

Father O'Hara, in delivering bis address, called back to the minds of those present the active life that Mr. McCloskey had led, as actor, playwright, 1 'forty-niner," and lastly, as clerk In the New York courts, which posiH he held for the past thirty-five The I The Circumstances of Whose Mysterious Death Are Being Investigated at tli Coroner's Inquest Today. durshlrt?" Captain Thompson did so, and took It around among the jurors. Then the underdrawers, with the slit on the left leg, were shown. The weapon and tbe chisel and knife were similarly displayed.

The knife has a stag handle and a six-Inch biado. Tse revolver with which the shooting is believed to have been done was a liber Smith Wesson. It bad one chamber empty when found. Captain Thomas testified that tbe patrolman's shield number on the outside of the butt of tbe gun had been erased. The serial number was still on the barrel.

Photographer Testifies to Taking Pictures of Body. Detective Morris Eckler, the photographic expert of the Brooklyn force, testified that he saw the body laid out In the Atlantic avenue station, and there took several photographs of It. He described the various photographs which were taken at 8:30 A.M. on the morning of the shooting. "The first picture," he testified, "shows the wound in the side of the head on the temple.

"No. 2 shows the wound on the head and a stab wound In the body, near the shield. Mr. Conwuy'B questions went scrupulously Into every detail and showed the moBt careful preparation. Eckler described minutely the wounds on the head, breast and leg as they appeared In the photographs.

Eckler said he had taken the service revolver off Cahlll, with the chambers loaded, from his left hip pocket, broke it and emptied the cartridges out. Eckler also described the cut on tbe left breast ot the blouse as a ragged cut about four inches long." The cut in the other side was about an inott long. He described the cuts on the shirt as smaller than those on the blouse, and the wounds In the breast aa very slight. "Wound in Head Seemed Burned," Says Witness. Eckler said that the wound in the bead bud the appearance, on the left side, of having been burned.

"Were the hands powder-marked?" marked?" asked Mr. Conway. sir; they were clean. Coroner's Physician Charles Wuest said he examined the body in tbe station. "The wounds in me nead were ragged," he said.

"On the left side the wound was clean, but under the skin there was a pocket and It was burned and full of powder. "On the right side the wound was ragged, fragments of the bone had been driven In the right side. 'The wound on the chest on the left side was superficial and only half an Inch deep. It did uot penetrate. The wound on the other side of tbe cheat was also superficial.

"The wound on the knee was gaping and about one and a halt inches deep. It indicated to me that it had been Inflicted before death." Dr. Wuest was shown tbe blouse and trousers, and again explained the nature of the cuts on the body. The wound on tht left temple was what Is called an immediate contact wound, he said, and from the nature of it he was able to determine the position of the head when the shot was fired. "Head Immovable When Shot Was Fired," Says Wuest.

"The head was absolutely Immovable, said Dr. Wuest. "I was able to tell that from the nature of the wound in the left temple. The muzzle of the revover waa pressed closely to the head and the bullet took an Irregular course, shattering the skull bone and passing through the head, coming out through the right temple. The wound In the left temple was jagged for the reason that the skin was torn as a result of the explosion of gases which always follows when the muzzle of the gun Is pressed tight to tho head." Mr.

Conway asked Dr. Wuest if Cflhill, judging by the wound in the left temple, could have been shot by somebody. Dr. Wuest Bald "Yes, provided he was unconscious or somebody was holding his bead to tbe ground when the shot waa fired." "As If his head were held In a vice?" asked Mr. Conway.

"Yes," said Dr. Wuest. Dr. Wuest testified that In his opinion Cahlll did not live more than twenty sec 30 VOTING CONTEST FOR GRAND OPERA SEATS 2S0 $3 Seats and Two Free Scholarships to Master School of Music for 62 Contestants With Most Votes. Address Opera Voting Contest, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Each Coupon, Properly Filled Oat, Counts as One Vote. JlXY Jt' METROPOLITAN GRAND OPERA AT BROOKLYN AC A DEM OF MtSIC EAGLE OPERA TICKET CONTEST One vote for Name Priest Testifies. The door had been closed and bolted the night before, as it bad always been, he said. From a point beyond the dead policeman's head was a long line about 50 feet, extending almost to a brick wall at the end of the yard. It looked as If It had been made by a policeman's club.

"Was anything stolen from your church that night or morning?" asked Mr. Con- "No," replied Father O'Hara. He testified that one afternoon, a month previous to the death of Cahlll, St. Matthew's Church had been robbed between 3 o'clock In the afternoon and 6 in the evening. A set'of candlesticks was stolen, and upon discovering the loss, Father O'Hara notified the lieutenant of the Atlantic avenue station, who called at the parish house the following rring.

tht robtei'i "Floating Down the River" It' a Iilty, tilty melody, and you'i! be tinging it and playing it on your piano. But to get the "swing" and verye, hear it sung by SOPHIE TUCKER BRIGHTON BEACH MUSIC HALL IOOOseatsSsScSSOc Address Eala Copyright To Reeelre olTrM Thin ballo fran. Opera Tick? a nil ffrholaralilpi by the Brooklyn Daily Enjy.e. moftt he oaat before A a Kant 20. jKSSS5iJ.