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3 THE BttOOKLYX DAILY EAGLE. XEW YORK. FRIDAY. JULY 30. 1909.

THINGS STOLEN FROM CLERK. RYAN HELD FOR BOBBERY. MISCELLANEOUS. A SECOIUQ TIME CRAZED TO SAYS BOYS CONFESSED TO SOUPING BIT. TRICKS ADMITS THAT HE LIEO Boy Was Trying to Pawn Them When Arrested.

Kurt P. Hlrsekorn, a clerk, living at 386 Bergen street, has identified as his property the ptns and buttons and suit of clothes that Detectives Rief and Conway found Edward Ruddy of 50 Dean street trying to pawn last Saturday. Mr. Hlrsekorn claims the articles were taken from his rooms on that day. and this morning he appeared as complainant against the boy, charging him with burglary.

Ruddy pleaded not guilty, saying he wag merely pawning them for a man by the name of Davis, whom he met on the street. He was held in $200 bail for examination later. TRIED TO KILL POLICEMAN Harrar Had Arrested Man for Carrying Slungshot. Ordered Three Rowdies to Hove Last Night and One of Them Shot Him in Leg, The police ot the Fulton street station. from Captain Gillespie down to the door men, believe that there was a deliberate attempt made early this morning to kill Patrolman Wilhelm H.

Harrar of the pre cinct, who Is now in the Brooklyn Hospi tal suffering from a bullet wound in the calf of the left leg. Harrar is a young policeman. His home is at 416 Stanhope street and he has a good reputation not only in his own neighborhood but among the men of the precinct. His post is one of the toughest In the police district, for It Is in the vicinity of the Navy Yard wall. There have been lawless doings there and the captain told his men not long ago to arrest any rowdies who were assaulting citizens or making undue noises at night.

A week ago Harrar arrested Thomas Sowowitz, a Lithuanian or Pole, for car rying a slung shot. The man was held to answer and soon after that news came to the officer that some of the man's friends had been threatening to do mm. At about 12:30 this morning Harrar ordered three men away from the corner of Plymouth street and Hudson avenue. They went so grudgingly that the policeman hit one of them on the legs with his night stick. At that they ran, but one turned and fired a shot at him.

The officer felt that he was wounded, but he pursued the three with the intention of catching the mnn who had fired. No other shooting was attempted, and Harrar ran until he had almost reached Bridge street, when he dropped. An ambulance was called and It was found he had been Bhot in the calf of the leg. He was taken to the hospital and was placed on the sick list. Detectives from the local headquarters bureau were notified, and early this morning Detective Ward arrested John Rohde of 66 Hudson avenue, on suspicion of having been concerned in the shooting.

But the policeman in the hospital could not Identify the prisoner as having been in the neighborhood. Rohde was held as a vagrant, pending further investigations by Captain Gillespie. He decuares that he bad nothing to do with the matter. STATE HIGHWAY WORK. Road Across Island From Huntington Probably Ready by October 1.

(Special to the Eagle.) Fair Ground, L. July 30 Supervisor E. S. Ireland, Division Engineer Stewart of the State Highway Department and Chief Engineer Savage of the Long Island Railroad have held several conferences recently in regard to matters affecting the new state highway across the island. A bad curve at Melville, where highway and trolley unites, has been eliminated.

Contractor Mullen is now finishing the road at the rate of several hundred feet a day. It is rather Blow work. The asphaltum, which is an 80 per cent, prod uct. Is put on heated to 250 degrees. It Is sanded and rolled while hot.

When compacted it makes a noiseless, dustless and easy riding road. Automobile wheels do not have much effect on it, and, while it "cups" a little under a horse's feet, it doeB not wear much. The road now has the coarse stone all in to this place, and that part will be finished up before going north of New York avenue. That section will be opened and finished in short stretches, probably of 1,000 feet. It is now believed that it will be Octo ber before the work is completed.

STREET SWEEPER IS TESTED, Commissioner Edwards Says Police man Merritt's Machine Gives Fine Results, Street Cleaning Commissioner Edwards was present this morning at a test of the new street cleaning machine which was Invented by Traffic Policeman Benjamin Merrltt. The test, which was held in streetB near Stable Manhattan, was declared, after it was over, to have been very satisfactory to both Inventor and the commissioner. 'The machine seems to be the best that I have seen in its line," said the commissioner, later. "The brooms worked well and dirt was swept up and gathered satis factorlly. However, we will give the ma chine a week's test, In as dirty streets as may be available.

The Merrltt machine has rotary brooms, set at converging angles, on either side of Its truck. The dirt is thrown up between these in a row twenty inches wide. Then there is a third broom in the rear which sweeps the dirt thus gathered Into a Droad hanging shoe between it and the forward sweepers. The dirt Is carried from the shoe by a sort of endless chain of buckets and deposited in barrels on top of the machine. NO TRIAL FOR MYTON.

Man Who Shot Engineer at Amity ville Is Now in a Sanitarium. (Special to the Eagle.) Amityville, July 30 W. S. Myton, a prominent resident of this place, who was committed to jail a month ago on the charge of assault in the first degree, he having shot and seriously wounded one Thomas McGrath, an engineer in the employ of the Hnntington-Amityvllle Railroad, has been taken to a sanitarium. Myton is 66 years ot ago, and rather eccentric, but his sudden shooting of McGrath came as an entirely unexpected In cident.

McGrath has now practically recovered, but It is considered almo3-. miraculous that he was not killed outright. Myton was committed to Riverhead Jail. Then, a few days later, he was examined by Dr. O.

J. Wilsey, of the Long Island Home at the place, and Dr. Jaggar of Flushing. Both physicians knew Mytoa well. Just wtiat tney found, is nor stated, but a day or so later Justice Wills, of Amityville.

Myton's attorney, went before Supreme Court Justice Jay-cox at Pauhogue and secured Myton's release on $3,000 bail, Mrs. W. S. Myton, the accused man's wife, and Rufus J. Ireland, his son-in-law, becoming his sureties.

Then he was removed to a sanitarium where he now confined, and where be will stay for a time. It is said positively that the case will never be tried. Myton is a brother-in-law of the late Alfred Sulley, the railroad, man, who died a short time ago. he Magistrate Doubts Alibi Sought to Bo Set Up. Magistrate Furlong, sitting in the Gates avenue court to-day, held Thomas J.

Ryan of 747 Franklin avenue, for the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of robbery made by Mrs. Kate Dunnigan of 1338 Fulton street. Mrs. Dunnigan was ticket agent in the Kingston avenue station of the Fulton street elevated railroad on the night of July 16, when two men came to the window and one raised an iron bar while the other stole $1.10. Magistrate Furlong, in holding young Ryan, said he was not altogether satisfied with the evidence adduced to prove an alibi.

He set ball at $1,000, which was promptly furnished. LAWYER UNDER ARREST College Point Attorney Charged With Larceny by Two Clients. John L. Coe Denies Accusations When Arraigned Before His Law School Classmate at Flushing. John ti.

Coe, a young lawyer of IS Grand avenue. Corona, was arraigned before his classmate, Magistrate Connolly, in the Flushing police court this morning on charges of grand and petit larceny, pre ferred by two of his clients. Angelo To- molo alleged that the lawyer had received from him the sum of $40. for which no service had been rendered, and Edward Cunningham charged that ho had paid Lawyer Coe the sum of $17, and that he had not rendered him any adequate return therefor. On the first charge Lawyer Coe was held in $2,000 ball for examination on August 13.

On the second charge the bail fixed is $500, and the examination occurs on the same date. Mr. Coe graduated from the New York Law School in the class of 1892, of which class the magistrate was a member. He practiced In Brooklyn for some years and then located In Corona. He Is well known throughout the Corona section, and Is attorney for the Corona Taxpayers Association.

He asked the court to extend him pro fessional courtesy and parole him in his own custody, but the magistrate declined to do so, and his father-in-law became his bondnman. The lawyer said that he had received $40 account of a $50 fee to be paid mm by Tomoio for gotllng his son out of a protectory In Brooklyn, but that he had not yet been able to accomplish Uic work he had set out to do. Ho said that he had the case under way, and that he had done nothing wrong in tho matter. In regard to the petit larceny charge, he explained that, as counsel for Cunning ham in a dispute with his partner, he accepted $17 to begin a suit, but that after he had taken the preliminary steps he learned that Cunningham had retained another lawyer, and was waiting to learn his wishes in the matter before proceeding. He disclaimed any wrong act In connection with either case.

Lawyer Coe some time ago to Borough President Gresser, in behalf of the Corona Taxpayers Association, and asked for permission to examine the books of the sewer department during the Cas-sidy and Bermel administrations. He was denied the permission, and then went to the Supreme Court and secured an order for an expert accountant to examine the books, He told an Eagle reporter to-day that his accountant had already made some discoveries that, when made public, were likely to cause a sensation. He would not go Into particulars at this time, but said that he would have a statement to make later. He Intimated that there was some connection between his probing of borough matters and his arrest on the larceny charges, and added that If every lawj-er in Queens Borough who had done what he had in the matter of the cases he has In hand were arresied and locked up, the jail would have to be enlarged. BEST FOB "WHITE WINGS." The street sweepers, drivers and horses of the Street Cleaning Department are to-day to be allowed a two-hour rest, be ginning at noonday.

Commissioner Ed-wai'ds Issued an order this morning to that effect, and stated that he had decided to do so In view of the extreme heat. Heretofore many of the men and horses have been overcome by the heat on extremely hot days, and many of the horses have died as a result. VERY SHORT WEIGHT OF COAL Not More Than Fifty Tons Delivered, It Is Alleged, Where Bill Was Presented for 102 Tons. Two arrests that Controller Metz said would be made before he left for Europe were made to-day when George M. Kuhn, son of George J.

Kuhn, a coal dealer at One Hundred and Seventy-second street and Webster avenue, and Hugh Martin, a former employe of the Park Department In the Bronx, were arrested by Detectives Fltzsimmons and Russo of the district attorney's office, on Indictments charging attempted grand larceny. The Indictments were found on information furnished to Assistant District Attorney Smyth by the controller some time ago. Kuhn end his father have had a contract for supplying coal to several departments in the Bronx. On March 26, the Indictment charges, young Kuhn put in a bill to the Bronx Park Department for 102 tons of coal, and-Martin, who had Inspected the delivery of the coal, certi fied that the amount was correct. The controller held up the bill and sent his own Inspectors to investigate.

They discovered, It is alleged, by measuring the coal, that not more than fifty tons had been delivered. Park Commissioner Berry suspended Martin pending an Investigation upon the controller's report. The men will be arraigned before Judge Foster In the Court ot General Sessions this afternoon. DUTY ON GLOVES TOO HIGH. Brooklyn Man Shows How the Proposed Tariff Is a Delusion and a Snare.

Students of the tariff, and especially those Interested In the glove bus'ness. are greatly exercised over the latent turn of affairs concerning hand-coverings. A well-known glove man, in speaking of the matter to an Eagle reporter thU morning, said: "The proposed tariff of $2.50 per dozen on all gloves valued at not over ti per dozen Is a huge Joke, as its effect would be to make the actual duty to be paid the eame as tho first one proposed. There are two classes of lamh-Bkln, French and German; the Freiu'h lambskin gloves cannot be invoiced to this country at less than $3.40 per doion. French lambskins cost in Europe francs per dozen, which equals $5.40 in our money.

The price In Europe to-uay' for German lambskins Is 20 marks, or $4.8. so It may easily be seen that it Is an impossibility to bring in gloves at $1 dozen. Therefore the proposed $2.50 tariff Is a delusion and a snare. "The proposed duty on Schnasnhen gloves, which are made of the poorest quality of skins, has been reduced rrcm $1.75 to $1. as a sort of sop to the buyers moderate-priced gloves, but this is also joke, as there Is not enough Schuaschm produced to supply one-fifth of the women who buy that claRs of goods.

"In connection with this matter I might also mention that the gloves call 'pique, that cost us $8.03 per dozeu to import are produced on thja aide for $7.60 per of Dr. Lyon's PERFECT Tooth Powder Cleanses, beautifies and preserves the teeth and purifies the breath Used by people of, refinement for almost Half a Century THE REALTY MARKETS OOOO OCCO 0000 oooooooo Auction Sales To-day. (BT JAS. AT REAL ESTATPJ EXCHANGE. Blake av.

cur CIvMan1 at, SflxVi. Robert Wilson afft Becky Koihnsky et al; Coomot St Wliaon, att'ys. L'lio Iiroadti.v; Geo Perry, ref. toli to Vrf'l Strohsall for 6u0 over mortgaK" of JU.l'ei. (BY WM.

P. KAE, AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE-. Chpster wt. 75.8 Wake av, Daisy Leverich, artmrx, at liarhpl Ginn et a); Edwin Keinpton. att'v.

173 Kemsen st Jacob NU, H'f. S-tUi to E.iythe i Cole fr (BV ERE JOHNSON, AT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE). Marcy av, No 84 to cor So 1st st, run 77 yv f0 7 to be g. Lnula R'iBPtithal agt Richard A Rendlc'i, recvr, etc. et al; Chas RoHPnthal.

att'y, of2 Brnadway, Manhattan I. -mi Corruthers. ref. Sold to the plaintiff fur over mortpftge of SM.in'K). (BY WM.

H. SMITH, AT REAL ESTATJ3 EXCHANGE). Union av, ft KtaKK st, 2oxl00. WI1-, nan YounR akx Abraham Stolper et al; 3 ACQ att'ys. 714 Bmadway; William Llebfrnian.

ref. Sold to Lout Selle for over nrnrtfeaKO lt.W. Sterling pi. IM.lo East New York av. JOxUl S.

Lmiis Gluck agt Mark Feller at al; Joseph Greenberg, att'y, 209 Broadway. Manhattan; William Sullivan, ref. Sold the plaintiff for I1.30 over mortgage of St. John'B pi, a 23.s Ralph av, run a 95.10 25 tn beg. George Wolf agt Solomon Laahtnaky ft a I George Lud-wlg, att'v, 1511 3d av, Manhattan; Frederick Mathews, ref.

Sold to Holmes for over mortgage of 52d at, s. 21 ft 4th av. lfl.Rxloo.2. Eagle Savings Loan Co agt John sou hp et al; Mayer, McLeer Dohson. att'ys, 19 Montague st; Jav Jones, ref.

S-ld to th plalatlff for f2.ooo over mortgage of $4,000. Wvckoff av, 25 ft Willoughby av, 160 Wllloughhy av, a a. S5.7 Wyckoff av, 75 Willoughby av, a 2.15.7 Wyckoff av, lOfix 100. Shelndelman ParshelRky. Inc.

agt John O'Donnell et al; Bachrach. 714 Broadway; John McCaffrey, ref. Soldi to the plaintiff for 500 over mortgages $148,714.48. DR. R.

H. LLOYD HERE. Will Interest America in the Work in the Slums of London, The Rev. Dr. R.

Harris Lloyd, a famous Wesleyan minister of Southwest London, arrived to-day on the Cunarder Maure-tania, and next Sunday, as well as Sunday after, he will preach in the Central Congregational Church. He is en Intimate friend of (Dr. Cadman, at whoso solicitation he comes to Brooklyn. From Brooklyn Dr. Lloyd will go to Canada where, nt Hamilton, Ontario, hs will visit the colony of London's former unemployed, whom he was instrumental in sending to various districts in Canada, where they got a fine start in life on this side of the Atlantic.

On August 15 Dr. Lloyd will preach in Toronto, and. then he will visit the W'lnoua Lake Assembly and make a number of speeches there. He wants Canadian landB for London's unemployed, and this is the young minister-missionary's main ambition. The last two Sundays in August Dr.

Lloyd will preach in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, afler which he will return to his work in the slums In Soutwest London. Among Dr. Lloyd's recent achievements in London was to hire a large theater and preach to 8,000 people. He may do so on this side the Atlantic before he returns home. He hopes to induce some wealthy Americans to interest themselves in the missionary work now being done in London, for he declares tho work there needs funds to keep It going.

CNCE WEALTHY, NOW VAGRANT Magistrate Impressed by Erlicb's Story Says Lawyers Got His Money. Israel Erllch, 56 years old, who says that he was a prominent real estate dealer In Brownsville two years ago, was arraigned before Magistrate Furlong In the New Jersey avenue court this morning on a charge of vagrancy. He was found last night by detectives from the Brownsville station in an express wagon in a vacant lot at Bristol and Liberty streets asleep. He said he had no home and there was no place for him to go. Magistrate Furlong appeared to be Impressed by Erlleh's story.

Shabby-looking and apparently feeble from lack of proper food, the man was a pathetlo figure In court as he told about himself. Ho said he had two sons, both of whom were wealthy, and a daughter. Mrs. L. Shrank, of Pitt and Grand streets, Manhattan.

Erllch said that two years ago he was doing a prosperous real estate business in Brownsville. He said he held a number of mortgages on property and was reduced to penury by the crookedness of several Brownsville lawyers. Magistrate Furlong continued the case until August 1 and fixed Erlich's bond at $500. He Instructed detectives to make an Investigation and see if they could locato members of the man's family, ANGELO CAUGHT HIS SON. Youngster Was Enjoying Himself in Coney Island.

It was the lure of Coney Island's white lights that attracted Antonio Oreco, 8 years old. on July 6. The boy, who lives with his parents at 93 Thirty-eighth street, was thought to have been kidnapped, and the police have been searching high and low for him. Last night, Angelo Oreco. the boy's father, looking about Coney Island, discovered his son sitting on the Surf avenue curb, contentedly munching a frankfurter sandwich.

Parental wrath then and there gave rise to an exhibition, not scheduled as part of the regular Coney Island features. EXECUTION FOR $763,530. Judgment Obtained Against Judge Company Things to Be Sold. There was filed this morning with Sheriff Hobley the largest execution ever delivered, it is said, into the Kings County sheriff's office, the amount being This is the amount of the judg ment recently obtained by the Title Guar antee and Trust Company, as trustee, against the Judge Company, in proceedings which are said to be for the reorgan- ization of the defendant company. Th sheriff has been Informed that the Judgo Company has some property on the premises of the Sackett Wllhelms Publishing Company, at Grand street and Morgan avenue, and a sale of the same has been ordered for August 4 at 2:30 P.M.

Deputies Farrell and Menger will conduct the sal. by Bookkeeper Cordin Broke Strait- Jacket and Fought Doctor in Ambulance. ALL HIS TALK IS ABOUT THAW, Room Tound littered With Clippings, Under Treatment in Asylum Before With Like Ravings. His mind apparently deranged by elose study of the accounts of the Thaw case. Edward Cordin, 27 years old, a Bookkeeper, was removed In an ambulance to the Eastern District Hospital, this morning, after he had wrecked the interior of his home at 417 Grand street.

All the way to the hospital he mumbled Irrationally of Thaw, saying that Thaw had not receivel a "square deal," an once on the trip he broke the ropes ot the straitjacket In which he had been placed, and attacked the ambulance surgeon and a policeman. With the help ot a third man, Cordin wag subdued aga'n and taken to the hospital, from which he will probably be removed to the observation ward at the Kings County institution 1 In Flatbush. It was Cordin'g second outbreak. A month ago he had delusions after rereading the Tbaw trial accounts, and, according to the police at that time, tried to jump from a window. He was removed to the Williamsburg Hospital and thence to the Kings County Hospital.

About a week or so ago he left there and returned to his home. He sent his wife and children to a country place in New Jersey where they now are. Since Thaw's activities came to the foreagain, Cordin, according to neighbors, has been reading of the case assiduously and has frequently protested to them that Thaw was not being treated fairly. Early this morning he must have been reading of the case, for, later, papers containing accounts of Thaw's efforts to get out of Matteawan were 'juud scattered about the room. Elias Stein nd Israel Gold, two tenants on the ground floor, heard a in Cordin's apartments above.

There wis a sound of crashing crockery and a great racket otherwise. They called in Polhie-Vfan Freeshohn of the Herbert street station. The three men quieted Cordin. D. Miller came from the Eastern District.

Cordin broke loose again, and attacked the four men in the room. He was quieted once more, placed in a straitjacket and a trip to the hopsltal was begun. At Nostrand avenue and Hart street, after he had been talking of Thaw, said Dr. Miller, all the way on the journey, Cordin suddenly brought powerful muscles into play, and snapped the ropes that bound him. Alexander Kane, the driver of the ambulance, brought his horse to a stop end it required the united efforts of Policeman Freeshohn.

Dr. Miller and Kane to strap the man down again. OBITUARY. EUen Tedford. Ellen Kelly, wife of James Tedford, a resident of the Fifteenth Ward for forty years, and active in the Cook Street M.

E. Church, now out of. existence, died on Wednesday. She was born in Ireland In 1851, and lived at 168 Leonard street. She leaves her husband, a brother and two sisters.

Marie Margaret Munch. Marie Margaret Hillmann. wife of Frederick Munch, died yesterday of pneu monia at her home, 31s Bedford avenue, Her husband has been a news and station ary dealer at that address for nearly twenty yars. She was born In Hanover, Germany, June 19, 1864. She leaves her husband, a son, Alfred and a daughter.

Anna. Henrietta Georgiarna Gosman. Henrietta Georglanna Hunter, wife of Robert Gosman, died Wednesday at her residence at 131 Weirfleld street, frouj typhoid fever. She was born in Williams burg, July 25, 1860, had lived for many years in the Fourteenth Ward, and was an active member of the Ainslie Street Presbyterian Church, teaching In the Sunday Bchool, a member of the Ladies' Aid Society, the Bethany Circle and the Home and Foreign Missionary Society. The Rev.

Rowland S. Dawson, now of Kearny, N. will officiate at the services tonight. Her husband, a son, George and two daughters, Eve V. and Elizabeth survive her.

Elizabeth Lowerre. Elizabeth Lowerre, the youngest daughter of the late Curtis B. Lowerre and Elizabeth Wright, died Wednesday at Winthrop, after an illness of seven weeks. She had been a sufferer for twelve years with chronic valvular heart dlesase. Her home was at 81 Rutland road, Flatbush.

The body is at 296 Rugby road, the residence of Mrs. Robert E. McConnell, sister and only surviving relative of deceased. Services will be held there to-morrow night. Rev.

D. L. Ward Brlgham officiating. Miss Lowerre was born in the Nineteenth Ward, March 21. 1878, had always lived there until a year ago and was a member of All Souls Unlverselist Church and a graduate of the Wilson street school.

Catherine E. Carr. Tracy Carr, wife of Thomas S. Carroll of Brooklyn, died Monday at the home of her sister, Mrs. J.

L. Haney, 13 Carroll street, Annapolis, Md. A solemn requiem mass was celebrated over the remains yesterday morning at St. Mary's Church, Annapolis, and the burial wad in St. Mary's Cemetery, Annapolis.

Katherine Heffernan. Katherine Heffernan, a blind newsdealer, who had kept a stand near the Columbia Theater for years and before that had kept a stand near St. James Pro-Cathedral, died at her home, 24 Chapel street, yesterday. She came from Ireland to Brooklyn when 11 years of age, and had lived In the Fifth Ward since that time. Her husband and six children have been dead for some years and she afterward became blind, but had supported herself under these conditions for many years.

PLAYED ORGAN AFTER 9 P.M. Law Has Not Yet Been Extended to Include Piano Players Fined a Collar. James Vannes, an organ-grinder, was grinding out "I Love My Wife; But Oh, You Kid" last night and as yard aftel yard of the dulcet strain crept into the surrounding atmosphere, children gathered and drank in the melody. All this happened on North Oxford street, and Vannes was so carried away by his own music that he forgot that It was after 9 o'clock. But a big policeman, who had no music in his soul came along.

"Here, you accompany me," said the policeman. "Very well, whata you sing?" inquired Vannes. After some further argument the policeman, convinced Vannes that he didn't mean that kind of accompaniment, but that he wanted Vannes to go to the station house with him for playing after o'clock, which is against the regulations. This morning Vannes was brought before Magistrate Naumer in the Myrtle avenue police court and pleaded guilty. Us was fined one dollar! LOST HIS HEAD Cowanus Also Searching for Lost Boy Who Found the Top Piece.

POLICE AT SEA ON THE CASE. Mystery Sinks the Tariff and Five Cent Fare Problem Into Insignificance. Has anyone lost a head? Out Gowanus way whenever you see a group of men or women standing about In earnest conversation these days tt Is pretty safe to assume that the word "head" Is being mentioned, not casually, but In a most serious manner. For Gowanus has a mystery. It Is a ghastly mystery which the people of Gowanus are puzzling their brains over, a grewsome thing which makes one shudder merely to think of, but It Is generally believed In from one end of the canal, where the hardy lower bay fishermen make their headquarters up to the oiher end where some wide-awake manufacturers are helping Brooklyn to stay on the map.

The story first made Its appearance late Wednesday afternoon, when a vague rumor reached the waterfront that a boy had found a head, a human head, a head without the body attachment, at the foot of Sixth street, lying In the water. The story once told was soon repeated, and it was not many hours before it was generally credited from one end of the canal to the other. Whose head it was and who can find the boy who found the head which found Itself In the canal's murky waters are the questions of the hour along the Gowanus to-day. The police of the Fifth avenue station say that they know nothing about the case and local police headquarters die. claim any Interest in It, but the luke-warmness of the police In the matter does not In the least deter the residents of fair Gowanus from making further Investigation of the mattor.

The boy who found the head seems to have disappeared and to have taken the head with him. Thus the question Whose head was it? It may be that some South Brooklyn politician has lost his head they sometimes do; but none of the leading lights in the ranks of the Republicans or Democrats of the district will confess that he has acted with other than his usual cleverness In things political. An Eagle reporter this morning thought that he bad solved the mystery when the suggestion was made that some or all of the Brooklyn baseball players might have lost their heads. However, only one head has been found, and persons who have seen the Brookjyns play lately say that one head would not be enough. The reporter's guns in this respect were spiked also when a loyal friend was discovered lurking around the canal, who called his attention to the last game the Brooklyns played at Philadelphia.

Yes, certainly none of the Brooklyns has lost his head, or be had recovered It before Wednesday's game and this head was discovered after the game. "The mystery of Gowanus" is the all-important subject of conversation In South Brooklyn these days. Such topics sb the revision of the tariff, a 6-cent fare to Coney Island and the use of Prospect Park West as a promenade for lovers at night have faded into insignificance beside this later mystery of "Whose Head Was Found In the Gowanus Canal, and Who Can Find the Boy Who Found the Head. The Eagle's Ninth street branch office has been besieged by aueries about the mystery for the past twenty-four hours, but Pete Flannery, the branch manager, ha been unable to assuage any anxious hearts, save by telling them that it was not his head. CHESS AT BATH BEACH.

Perry and Searle Win in General Tourney, the Former Taking the Lead. Previous "to play in the general tournament of the New York State Chess Association now in session at the Fort Low-ry Hotel, Bath Beach, this morning, it was decided at a special meeting of the executive board to tender a hearty vote of thanks to the subscribers to the prize fund, especially to the children of the late Eugene Delmar, for having subscribed an annual prize for the midsummer meetings. It was furthermore de-cldede to hold winter meetings, if possible. In this city. If thirty-two players will be ready to compete, Buffalo, Rochestci, Utica and Schenectady and In other cities where at least sixteen competitors will start.

In order to popularize the game and Increase the membership of the association it Is Intended to offer gold medals as prizes at the winter meetings, one for earh c'ty, where a tournament can be arranged under the conditions named above. It is understood that such chess centers as Brooklyn, Staten Island, may arrange their own tournaments, always provided that sixteen entries can be secured and the association will then furnish the special prize. B. B. Williamson absenting himself again when play was called in the general tourney, Custer scored his game by default, while Searle met McMartin and Perry had to play Ring.

McMartin selected a Sicilian defense as second player while Perry opened a Ruy Lopez against Ring. The latter had a much Inferior position. Perry won after 31 moves. Af ter 37 moves McMartin Dad to resign, thua giving Perry the lead, which the former had held up to the fifth round. JAMAICA WOMAN ATTACKED.

Mounted Police Scour Woods and Fields for Italian Who Assaulted Mrs. Fanz, The mounted police of the Jamaica sta tion spent several hours last night in the woods near Pacific street and Atlantic avenue, Jamaica, In the endeavor to find the unknown Italian who bad assaulted Mrs. Agatha Panz, a Slav, 35 years old. Atlantic avenue and Pacific street, in the woods at 6:30 P.M., while the latter was hurrying home. Their search, however, was futile.

According to the story of Mrs. Panz, she was crossing some lots on her way home at dusk yesterday, when an elderly, well built Italian, whom she had never seen before, stepped out before her from one of the trees in the vicinity, addressed her In Italian dialect, and immediately seized her. The woman struggled to get away from him, and at last, extricating one of her arms, clawed deep gashes in his face with her nails. Her assailant, however, again pinned her arms to her side, and was fast overcoming her, when she screamed so loudly that the Italian became frightened. He let go of the woman, dealt her a couple of heavy blows in the eyes, and felled her to the ground.

Hearing approaching footsteps, he fled In the oppo site direction, and was soon lost sight of. The woman remained stunned on the ground until her neighbors, after searching around In the location from which the noise had proceeded, found her moaning and dazed. They lifted her up and took her to her home. The police were then notified of tho holdup, and sent out the mounted men. but do tract ot tne assailant was Ioun.

Many Lines Imperiled on Windsor Terrace Hill by Prank of Young Men. RAILROAD TO PROSECUTE. Detectives Gomeringer and O'Connor Questioned Neighborhood Boys Before They Acted. Charles Simpson, aged 17 years of 1151 Thirty-ninth street and William A. Bennett, aged 18 years, ot 796' Gravesend avenue, were held this morning by Magistrate Tlghe.

sitting in the Adams street court, for hearing next week on a chargo made by William Ashby, investigator for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, who sayg that they soaped the tracks of the Culver line last Tuesday night, thus menacing the lives of many passengers and violating the law as well. Simpson was for a time a jockey and rode some race horses at New Orleans. The other boy Is set down on the police records as a laborer. The two were arrested by Detectives Gomeringer and O'Connor of the local headquarters squad. The railroad people were very much disturbed over what happened at Tenth and Fort Hamilton avenues on Tuesday night between 8 and 9 o'clock.

The traffic to the lBland on the Culver line was heavy then and it was a wonder that no one was killed. There is a stop for the trains at Fort Hamilton avenue, at the point indicated, but the trains did not stop. They simply glided over the rails when the brakes were put on; slid along as if on iced runners. No less than five trains acted this way, much to the worry and apprehension of the motormen and railroad officials, and also to the distress of the passengers, who could instinctively tell that something w. wrong.

An investigation showed that the tracks, for a considerable distance had been smeared with soap. The soap was scraped off and sand was put on the tracks, with the result that thereafter the brakes and the wheels gripped and there was no further sliding. While the railroad people were worried it is alleged Simpson and Bennett and another lad, whose name is known, but who has not been arrested, were having a merry time. They had soaped the tracks, the detectives say, and were watching what would come of It. There had been an accident a week before on the road at the point in question, and while they did not want to see anyone killod, it was brave fun for them to see the tralus sliding and to know that they were the cause of it.

According to Gomeringer the lads confessed to a share in the proceedings. A small chap named Divine had been sent for the bar of of soap. It was bought at a grocery store not far away. Devlne simply got the soap and did not do any of the subsequent smearing. The thing was paid for by Simpson, it is claimed, and he cut it Into three pieces, and while he took one portion he gave the other to his two confederates.

They just had time enough to smudge the tracks with the soap before a train came thundering along. And they stood and watched, the detectives say, while the motermen were vainly trying to stop the sliding wheels. "Lets get more," said one of the lads, when the rails had been cleaned. "Naw," declared another. "We might get pinched, and then we might hurt somebody." "If anybody's goin' to be count me out," it is claimed, Simpson said, and the fun came to an end.

The lads, who really do not seem to have meant any harm, stopped right there, and the tracks have been free from soap ever since. The detectives In their Investigation got Into confidential relations with some of the boys who knew, and tne arrests were the result. This morning the two prisoners pleaded not guilty when ar ralgned before Magistrate Tlgh and were held in default of $1,000 bail each for later hearing. The railroad company will Insist on prosecuting the lads. It was said at the B.

R. T. offices this morning that the practice of boys soap ing the tracks would be wiped out, no matter how much trouble or expense that might cost. "The dangers of train opera tion over a greasy track are Infinite said an official. "The statutes realize this and regard the offense, punishable by a long term In state prison.

It is a form of train wrecking, and In the case of the accident a week ago on the Windsor Terrace hill it is only a miracle that loss of life did not result from the prank of the boys." ALDERMAN FLANAGAN HAPPY. Wanted Good Watch Dog and Got It. How Does He KnowP Dog Bit His' Finger Off. Alderman Joseph Flanagan of Queens has for same time wanted a good watch dog one that would actually watch and not pretend to do so. The Alderman hates a bluffer, whether it is a politician or a watch dog, and he waited until he secured just the kind of a canine guar dian he Bought.

He took his new dog home yesterday and placed him In a stable in the rear of his home at Corona. This morning he strolled out to the stable to see bow the dog was getting on. As he entered the building the dog sprang at bis throat. The Alderman thinks quickly and acta likewise, but never In his life did he act more promptly than when he threw up his left arm as the dog leaped at him. He saved his throat from the dog's fangs, but lost the end of his second finger on his left hand.

The fourth finger In his right rand was also badly chewed before he could get out of the stahle and fasten the door. Then he phoned to a physician who cauterized and dressed the wounds. No serious results are looked for, as the dog Is believed to be in good health and the Alderman says he blood is in good shape, Asked if he would dispose of the dog or have it killed, Alderman Flanagan em phatically declared he would not. He said: "The dog simply did not recognize me, and was only doing what he thought was his duty. The fact that he attacked me proveB him to be a good watch dog, and that Is what I wanted.

REFEREES APPOINTED. BY STAPLETOM, J. Christman v. Koerfer Alfred A. Schiicker- man.

Alexander vs. Fasan kdward Moran. Progressive Realty and Improvement Com pany vs. United American Kealty Co Morti mer Brown. Llgnante vs.

cusn Katnenne h. Daniels. Cohn vs. Drachman Emil J. Cohen.

Eagle Savings and Loan Company vs. Meyer Michael May. Eaarle Savings and Loan Company vs. Flem ing George J. 8.

Dowllng. Klngsboro Realty Co vs. Berg Samuel J. Maddox, Jr. WELL NAMED.

In a recent trial of a "bootlegger" In Western Kentucky a witness testified that had purchased some "squirrel" whisky from the defendant. "Squirrel whisky?" questioned the court. "Yes you know; the kind that you talk nutty and want to climb trees." Everybody's Magazine, Told an Untruth About Automobile Ride With Mrs. Ernest Von Hagan. ASSAULT CASE IS DISMISSED, Von Hagan's Brother Rudolph Intimates That There Will Be Further Developments.

Magistrate Furlong to-day pomptly dismissed the charge of assault which Royal A. Williams, a general contractor, living at 1440 Pacific stest, had made against Rudolph Von Hagan, a manufacturer, ot 1362A Bergen street, reported in yesterday's Eagle. This was after the court had heard Mr. Williams testify that story he had told to the effect that he had been Intimate with the wife of a brother of Mr. Von Hagan, and which is said to have led up to the trouble, was not true.

Mr. Williams appeared in court to-day without an escort ot detectives, and brought with him a number of witnesses, who did not help his case much. The complaint he bad made charged that Mr. Von Hagan, a well-to-do button manufacturer, with a place of business In Manhattan, had assaulted him In the rear room of a saloon next door to his office, at 62 Kingston avenue, on July 22. Williams testified that he and Von Hagan had at one time been friends; that about 5 o'clock In the afternoon of the day men tioned, Von Hagan had come up to him in tre rear room of the saloon and stated he had come to give him a chance to right himself regarding the statement he bad made regarding the wife of his (Von Hagan's) brother.

Right after this, he said. Von Hagan had struck him several blows and had called him a robber, thief and other vile names. "Are you guilty of the charge Mr. Von Hagan's brother made?" asked counsel for Von Hagan. "That has nothing to do with this case," replied Williams.

The magistrate told Williams to answer the question, and he stated that when he had told Harry Firth he had been tlmate with the wife of the brother of the defendant he had told an untruth. "What did you mean by telling Firth you were guilty of such an act, when you were not?" asked the magistrate. "I can't answer that question. I don't replied Williams. "Itl was your duty to champion the cause of woman rather than to tell a He about her," admonished Magistrate Fur- long.

An electrical contractor, a cigar man ufacturer and Peter Rassweiler, bartender in the saloon where the a ssault was alleged to have taken place, were called, but they could shed little light on what had happened. Magistrate Furlong, when dismissing the complaint, remarked that Williams appeared to be as bad as was the man he accused according to his own witnesses. After the court proceedings, Mr. Von Hagan stated that his brother, Ernest Von Hagan, had a hotel at Dunnfleld, N. and Williams had been engaged In May last to make some alterations in the hotel.

Later, Mr. Von Hagan said, he had been informed by Harry Firth, a young man who worked for his brother, that Williams had stated to his that he had taken Mr. Von Hagan for an automobile ride to Stroudsburg, Pa. Mr. Von Hagan said he later communicated with his brother regarding the revelations made by young Firth, and he came to Brooklyn a few days ago.

His brother, Mr. Von Hagan stated, was rather excited, as any man might be under the circumstances, but there had been no talk of any shooting. "Neither was there any hint at black-mall," continued Mr. Von Hagan. "But the proceedings in court to-day, with the dismissal after the admission by Williams that he had told an untruth, puts us in the right light, I think." Mr.

Von Hagan Intimated that the end of the matter is not yet. MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued in Brooklyn for Twenty-four Hours Ended at Noon To-day. Elia Kcllner, 25 years, 277 Lorlmer st, and Toba Safron. 23 years, 277 Lorimer st. Wladyslaw Brodzfenski, 23 years.

1159 Dupont st, and Stanlslawa Stefanska, 20 years, le9 Dupont st. Turko Zapp. 21 years. 190 North Fifth st, and Orina Koriapa, 19 years, 76 North Eighth it. Joseph Hoffman, 24 years, 868 Myrtle av, and Base Weiner.

19 years. 866 Myrtle av. Bernard Rnzzoneco, 24 years, Newark, and Margaret Sager, -J years, 367 Atlantic avenue. John Declcco. 27 years.

2263 Pacific st, and Maria Devlto, 27 years, 2361 Atlantic av. Robert T. Siebert, 48 years, 608 Bedford av, and Emma Holz, 36 years, 518 Lexington av. Angeto Razzano, 24 years, 250 Dean st, and Alfonzlna Grossa, 21 years, 2162 Bergen st. Frank W.

Luekenbach. 24 years, 79 Jefferson st, and Margaret Reinmuth, 24 years, 116 Euclid av. William C. Kame, 30 years, 197 Adams st, and Mary Blldsteln. 20 years, 197 Adams st.

Nlcolo Pollzzl. 31 years, 166 Montrose av, and Anna Neissi, 21 years, 168 Montrose av. Valeryian Rusak, 28 years, Maspeth, L. and Hfelena Blnlewska, 19 years, 167 Eagle street. Henry H.

Rhodes, 24 years, 252 Hewes st, and Anna Wooster, 21 years, 50 Vernon av. John A. Kayo. 25 years, 166 Richards st, and Mary E. Walsh, 24 years, 49 Reld St.

Giovanni A. Focura. 63 years, 6912 Fifteenth av. and Teresa Luzzl, 43 years, 691Z Fifteenth avenue. Louis Lnblnsky.

24 years. 652 Sutter av, and Huda Kaufman, 22 years, S5Z Sutter av. Pasquale Curcclo. 29 years, 1463 Seventieth tt. and Maltora j-ecerico, is years, 1463 Seventieth st.

James Cody, 21 years, 367 Bedford av, and Mary Olsen, 19 years, ot Norman av. Charles Protzmann, 28 yuars. 531 ICast Fourth st. and Marlon A. Coates, 28 yeare.

34 Ridge-wood av. Mariano LoCoco, 33 years, 813 Bushwick av. and Francesca Collettl, years, 428 Hicks street. John Hylas. 45 years, Haverstraw, N.

and Mary Kovocs, years, ius uuponi st. Clarence W. Cromwell. 27 years. 105 Norman av.

and Rose Thlebaud, Zo years, 128 Chestnut st. Errloo Parlato, 34 years, 69 Hamilton av, and Conseglla Conzo, 2S years, 16 Carroll st. Michael Kazsk. 31 years, 25 Franklin st, and Elizabeth Konaczevlcz, 26 years. 25 Franklin st.

David Goldfeder. 23 years, 1061 DeKalb av, and Rose Hosealowitz. 21 years, 156 Alabama avenue. Theodore H. Klein.

27 years. 502 Second av, Manhattan, and Ann E. Allen, 31 years, 119 i Moffatt St. Peter H. Paulsen.

22 years. 63 Woodhull st, and Johanne Johajinesen, 21 years, 53 Wood-hull st. Herve A. Diffendafer .38 years, 1 Fulton st, and Susie B. Hall, 36 years, 198 Bergen st.

David Grossman. 22 years. S3 Sheriff st. Manhattan, and Sarah Rosenberg, 22 years, 3i7 Osborn si. Gustave G.

Mawr, 40 years, 73 Schenectadv av, and Josephine E. Heln, 28 years, 73 Schenectady av. Max Gold, 25 year. 230 Dumont av, and Maria Feldman, 22 yeare, 230 Dumont av. Joseph Krcsko, 22 years, 103 North Seventh st.

and Mary Kazslmlr, 20 years, 1031J North Seventh st. Henry S. Law. 49 years, Merchantvllle. N.

and Marcareta mien, years, N. J. Max sfhwnne: 30 years, Elmhurst Heights. Queens Borough, antt Marina Hufsky, :3 years, 170 Bleecker st. Samuel Goldfarh.

22 years. Nazareth. and Dora is years. 1L' selgel st. Vincent Jrrvli.

25 years. 404 Dean st, and Adeline Brush, lit years, si t'ulaskl st. Sabato Gnerre. years. Mount Vernon.

N. and FlloniliiH Iucci. years. Z0i7 Dean st. Kidor Kalzky.

37 years. 341 Winthrop st, and Vettle Welnsteln, 35 years. 367 Vernon av. Vincenzo Abbaterniarco. 24 years, 207 First st, and dlarla kicci.

li years, oiz Naekett st. Amlllo Plcone, 24 years. Sixty-eighth st and Twelfth av. and Josephlnt Scarpa, 18 years, auv eiair-sevenia a of a 1.