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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Yi Credit Conpon CUT THIS OUT. A I fit ST 7. LAST EDITION. NEW YORK CITY. SATURDAY.

AUGUST 7. 1909. VOL. 70. NO.

217. 22 PAGES, riCTUUE AND LONG ISLAND SECTION. THREE CENTS. LOCAL WEATHER PROB ABILITIES. Fair to-nicrhti Snnilny, tnir and IIKI1II7 wsrnieri liftht 10 variable mind.

ELEVEN PERSONS HURT. Crowded Trolley Car Drops Into a Hole in Jersey City. RECORD SWIMMING RACE. South port, England, August 7 In the amateur swimming competition held here to-day T. S.

Batterbee won the mile event In the record British time of 24 minutes 1 2-5 seconds. CHURCH FIGHTS SALOON AI 3D SI. Ill 7TH All. SfflSET KIM DEATH IN GREAT SOUTH OH! BEATS WORLD'S RECORD it i if THROUGH DIRT! LAKE Kings Highway Residents Suffer As Result of Disgraceful Sewer Conditions. TEAMS USED IN RESCUE WORK.

Boys Gather In Change Dragging Out Stalled Vehicles Protest From Property Owners, A water carnival is the latest diversion of the residents of the Kings Highway section, especially those who use the Brighton Beach elevated road as their means of travel from their homes to business and back again. Water sports of all kinds have been planned, and already enterprising youthB are making a mint of money in helping people out of their dilemmas whenever they arrive at their station In the afternoon and evening or attempt to reach the elevated trains In the morning. In fact, Beveral large placards have been posted, bearing the Information. "The Next Boat Will Leave in Ten Minutes." The reason for the unwelcome and really unappreciated lake on Kings Highway is that the sewers and cesspools In the vicinity have been stopped up and all the water has Bought Its own level, the lowest land in the iiciglyjorhood which happens to be around the elevated station. Approach is Impossible, except by some means of aquatic navigation or suitable diving apparatus, and the situation is causing the greatest amount of protest among the business men, whose trade has suffered considerably.

The elevated station Is the center of most of the trouble and the rainfall last night made the tide rise so high that the lake in some places was two and a half feet deep and rose over the sidewalks. On WednetJay and Thursday passengers from trains from Manhattan were unable to get. to their homes, without having previously telegraphed or telephoned to their folks to bring them re lief the form of rubber boots and mackintoshes. Women had to be assisti out of the windows of the stations by their husbands and in some cases bodily carried to places of safety. Others waded knee-deep in the water and there was a great deal of excitement.

These troubles have been much aggravated by the rainfall last night. Women leave ruined mud finery, and the end Is not yet. The boys in the neighborhood who are enterprising enough to meet the chanted conditions have earned quite a sum of money in different ways. Some of them have secured teams of horses to help disabled wagons "stuck In the mud" and have demanded and Becured "salvage" for their work. In some cases they earn $2 and $3 a day.

The first case of this was when a baker's wagon, loaded with flour, attempted to cross the lake. Before It was halfway the water rose amidships, and the wagon turned over. All the flour became dough and the driver was compelled to produce another brand of dough before he could extricate himself. A man and a woman in an auto had a similar harrowing experience yesterday. The driver stopped at the edge of the lake at East Fifteenth s.i'cet and asked W.

J. Longstreet, a butcher, how deep it was. "It's pretty deep," said Longstreet. "You want to be careful. I wouldn't go very far myself.

It's dangerous:" The Rutomobilist. however, seeing no I other way out of It, did not mind the warning and started his machine through the water. It did not go far, however, before the engine stopped, and there he was "stuck In the mud." He jumped Into the water, spoiled all his clothes and got a thorough drenching In his effort to start the machine, but his attempts were fruitless, and he had to pay $2 "salvage" to a boy with a team of horses to got out of the lake. Several of the youths declare that they are going to buy canoes for water races. C.

A. Parmerton, a resident, said his daughter was one of those caught the other night at the station. She had to! walk up to her knees in the water and had her dress spoiled. Harry Dltmas, whs lives on Kings Highway, has taken pictures of the lake. The lake is locate don Kings Highway, between East Fifteenth and East Seventeenth streets, and is nearly two blocks long, or about 350 feet.

The business men of the section are "up in the air" over the water situation. Everybody is registering a kick, and while the houses have not been flooded, the lake Is causing a great deal of trouble to the property owners. M. J. Reynolds, the president of the Kings Highway Board of Trade, said today that his board had frequently noted the bad condition of the sewers in the section, had appealed to the borough authorities and bad not been given any attention.

The board will hold a special meeting. CHILD'S BODY IN GUTTER Policeman's Little Dog Called Attention to Bundle. Baby Was About Eight Months Old and Had Been Suffocated Tied in Newspaper. Acting Captain Butler and Detective Finley of the Vernon avenue station, are at work to-day to solve the identity of Lt dead body of a male child who appears to be about eight months old. which was found In the gutter In front of I11M8 Myrtle avenue at about 9 o'clock this morning by Officer Jacob Kochler of the Vernon avenue station.

While on his post. Koehler is always accompanied by a little dog. "Mugsy." This morning Mugsy first noticed the bundle lying in the gutter and called Koehler's attention, to it by whining and barking. The officer stooped over and picked up the strange bundle wrapped in a piece of newspaper and tied with ma-nlla cord, and found In it the body of little child, clad only in a plain whltt slip, who had apparently been dead for a couple of hours. Coroner's Physician Wuest made an ex amination of the body and annuun.ed Ibat it had been dead for about three horns.

and had died from suffocation. It is not known, as yet, whether the child was suf focated aud then wrapped up in the bundle or whether It was placed in the bundle and expired there from lack of ir. One of the theories is that the body had been thrown from the elevated struc ture, but the detectives have decided that that would have been impossible, for there were no marks on the child's body which would have been made from such a fall. DEJA AGAIN GOES TO PRISON. Having Just been released from Sing Sing, after serving a term of three and one-half years for the murder of his wife.

Matthew Deja, 25 years old. with no home, was brought before Magistrate Geismar In the Fifth avenue court to-day on a charge of being a drunkard. He was fined jlo or ten days, and chose the days on account of lack of funds. Eleven persons were Injured, three seriously, when spreading rails rausel crowded trolley ear on the Grove street line in J.rscy Ciiy to drop into an ex-, eavation between the tracks to-day. One, end of the car collapsed, and a number of the thrown together in a heap, were cflught In the wreckage.

Axes had to be brought into play to extricate two men pinned under the floor of the car. At the hospital to which the most seriously Injured were taken it was said that none was fatally hurt. I STORM NEAR GALVESTON. New Orleons, August 7 Storm warnings for the Galveston district were Issued by the forecaster at the New Orleans weather bureau this morning. The storm is said to bo central over theGucf several hundred miles south of the Louisiana coast line.

EARLY IN BROOKLYN Alleged Leper Is Living in Outskirts of This Borough. Under an Assumed Name, He and His Family Are Dwelling at Nearby Beach. Washington, August 7 That John Early, who has been receiving a pension from the Government as a leper. Is not In the Skin and Cancer Hospital in New York is again alleged, this time authoritatively. "Free as the air he breathes, Early Is living in peace, comfort and happiness with his family at a beach near Brooklyn.

The report that he is still a patient lu the Skin and Hospital in New York City is untrue. It was given out by physicians who want to protect Early from newspaper notoriety." This statement was made by Acting Commissioner of Pensions Davenport today. "Early has received his last cent from the Government without working for It," said Mr, Davenport. "On June 4 he ceived $216. as three months' pensic will get no more.

Yesterday I notice on him that he would be dt from the pension rolls. He acknowlt receipt of the notice and declared he w. not entitled 10 the motley and did not want it. as he Is capable of doing manual labor. If his name remained 011 the rolls until September 4 he would receive Jiilti, but it will be off within a day or two." A medical examiner had been sent to New York 10 trace Early.

His report las been made to Mr. Davenport. When reporters called at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, Manhattan, a few days ago, when the report of Early's release was received, the physicians at that institution declared Ihal M-aU etill I tl 1T1 I flllH lnilPtied at the statement that Early was livini tn nrooKiyn. When an Eagle reporter called at the day for a verification or denial of the ilispatcn received trom, asniugton. 11 was said that Miss Byrne, the superintendent, was out of town on her vacation.

Iir. L. Duncan HulUley, the head of the skin department, was also not at home, having lelt for his summer residence in Connecticut. A young woman, who could not speak officially, said tout Early was still an inmnte of the hospital and allowed the list of fifty patients which included his name. She said that he was no; in the building, being temporarily on a pass issued by one of the phy- at that time at any rate, or when he returned, except n.

iween anu ciock. the visiting hours, it was learned definitely, however. from another source, despite the at tempts of the hospital physicians to hide him from newspaper publicity, that Earlv has been livine in Brooklyn with his family for some time since his de- parture from the hospital. He is residing. It is said, in the suburbs tinder assumed name, whic has aided him cseanini? the nnhtieirv h.R iinffirlnnatp experiences have always thrust ution him.

WILL WED HIS NURSE. Central Islip Han T.tkes as Biide Women Who Cared for Him When 111. (Special to the Eagle.) Brentwood, L. 1., August 7 Miss Sarah A. Neville, hea.i nurse at the Ross Sanitarium in this place, and John Regan of Central Islip will be married at 7 o'clock to-night in St.

Ann's R. C. Church. The ceremony will bi performed by the Rev. Father J.

M. Klely. rector. The wedding will be a quiet one. only friends and relatives having been invited to attend.

For the past ten years Miss Neville has been at the Ross Sanitarium, and for the last five years of that timj she has been head nurse. Among her cases have been many prominent Brooklyn and Manhattan people whom she has nursed back to health and thus won their everlasting friendship and regard. She is well known all over this section of Long Island for her expert and kindly treatment of patients over whom she has had supervision. Mr. Regan has a responsible position In the engineering department of the Central Islip State Hospital, where he has been for the past seventeen years.

It was while he was a patient under the care of Dr. W. II. Ross at Brentwood that he mn Miss Neville. GET ONLY $3,000 FOR LAND.

Fisher's Island Holders Wanted Government to Pay Them Ten Times as Much. Judge Chatfleld in the United States Circuit Court to-day handed down a decision confirming the report of the con-d 'lunation commissioners who awarded $3,000 to the owners of the Fisher's Is- land tract which the government wants. I United States District Attorney Youngs some time ago began proceedings to ac- 1 quire eight acres of land on the south- erly side of Equestrian avenue and Beach avenue, The owners of the plots, eleven in number, promptly put In claims for Jjn.ouO. John J. Bartlett of Greenpoint, Will-lam M.

McKinney of Northport and F.rastus F. Post of Quogue were appointed commissioners in condemnation by Judge Chattleld. and six weeks ago filed their report, awarding the owners of the tracts Assistant United States District Attorney Sclah B. Strong, who fought the contention of the owners for an award of to-day filed a motion with Judge Chatfleld for confirmation of the report. The motion was granted.

The newly acquired land will be used by the government to extend the fortifications on the island known as Fort Wright. Some of the land will have to be filled in. and all of it will have to be improved physically before It can be used for fortification purposes. 1 I I BROOKLYN TAILOR DROWNED. JT.

G. Strumpf Leaves Note Saying: That Bum Was the Cause. Kingston, N. August 7 The body of a man found drowned at Eddyvllle has been Identified as that of J. G.

Strumpf, formerly a custom tailor of Brooklyn, who has been working In Kingston since January. A notebook contained a farewell message reading. "Rum and tobacco have been my undoing. I have been a merchant tailor with en honored name, but have come to this from rum. I have no further use for life.

Doctors have examined me, but were unable to tell me what was the trouble, but my friends knew better than they did. I am going to end It all, as I have no reason for living." It was signed G. Strumpf, the bum." Strumpf was discharged two weeks ago by his employer for drunkenness aud promised to reform. LIEDTENANT KING" ARRESTED Posed In California As Son of General Horatio King. Alleged to Have Confessed That He Was a Massachusetts Hotel Clerk.

San Francisco, August 7 Arrested here under the name of "Major Anderson, U. S. and later declared by Secret Service Agent Harry Moffat to be Lieutenant Harry King, a man wearing a United States Army officer's uniform and having many papers in his possession purporting to show be was Lieutenant King, confessed in jail last night that he was ThomaB E. Heaney, formerly a hotel clerk in Brookfield, Mass. Heaney declared that for five years he had been posing as Lieutenant King, son of Horatio King, and that he had been received in many cities without question under that name.

Heaney took great pains to carry out these impostures. His card was engraved "Lieutenant Harry King, son of General Horatio King;" he had numerous letters from army officers, and even from the department at Washington, addressed "Lieutenant King," and because of acquaintance with the real King was able to pass as the latter among army men who knew the lieutenant by sight. Heaney was arrested on telegraphic advices from Los Angeles stating that a man of his description was wanted for forgery. Lieutenant Harry King Is In the Philippines. General Horatio C.

King, the prominent Brooklynite, is out of town and will not return until August 13. It Is believed that the Horatio King mentioned above Is a resident of Boston and not the Brooklyn veteran and attorney-ai-law. THEY SOLD BAD MONEY. Battaglia and P.ossi Sentenced Prison Terms for Handling Counterfeit $5 Bills. to Vincenzo Battaglia and Fortunato Rossi, wholesale dealers In counterfeit money, who -ere found gulltv by a Jury In the criminal branch of the United States Circuit Court, in Manhattan, were to-day sentenced by Judge Hand to terms lu the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.

The Jury having recommended mercy in Rossi's case he was let off with a sentence of two years imprisonment. Battaglia got a seven year term. The conviction of Battaglia and Rossi, alleged to be Black Hand leaders as well as big dealers in the spurious $5 "Jackson head" bills, is conoldered important by Captain William J. Flynn of the local secret service, A government spy named Cassanza told of meetings and dealings with tne prisoners, both of whom, he said, had sold him counterfeit money. Letters found on Battaglia at the time of his capture, on July 12, proved to be from spurious bill-passers at present serving terms In the prisons of this state and New Jersey.

The letters plainly indicated that Battaglia under cover of being a life Insur ance agent was a wholesaler In counter feit money with many of his tools in jail. It also cropped out at the trial that Battaglia is under suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of a wealthy man in Sicily, whose life was heavily Insured. STAIRS BURNED UNDER THEM. Firemen Hod a Narrow Escape From Denth in a Blazing Box Factory in Manhattan. nienien narrowly escaped di today in a Are at 45 Mercer street, Manhattan, a four-story brick structure filled from top to bottom with Inflammable materials used in making boxes.

Nobody was hurt seriously enough to be taken to a hospital, but Battalion Chief Mc-Kearney and Alfred Johnson, a fireman of engine company No. 20. risked their lives to save five firemen who had fallen from the fourth to the third floor when a wooden stairway was burned under them. Two high pressure streams soon drowned out the fire, and half an hour after the streams were gotten In play the blaze was out. The damage was confined to the third and fourth floors and was about $5,000.

FOUND HUSBAND DEAD IN YARD Riverhead Woman, Returning From Prayer Meeting, Came Upon Body. Head Caught in Wagon Wheel. (Special to the Eagle.) Riverhead, L. August 7 When Mrs. George Downs, who resides in the suburbs of this village, returned to her home from prayer meeting last night, she found her husband dead In the yard.

His head was wedged between the spokes of his wr.gon wheel, and his feet, were In the vehicle. He had evidently strangled to death while in that position. Downs had been drinking quite heavily for some time past, and drove home In that condition last night. His wife, on his arrival, unharnessed the horse and put it in the stable, leaving her husband asleep in the wagon. She presumed he would remain there until she had returned from prayer meeting, when it was her intention to help him out and Into the house.

He did not. however, wait for her return, but must have endeavored to get out of the wagon and fallen with his head between the spokes. It is supposed that ho slowly strangled to death, and, owing to his Intoxicated condition. did not know enough to call for help, or If ho did call his crleB were not heard. Coroner Peterson was notified and gnvc permission to remove the body to the house.

To-day he is to hold an Inquest. Iiowns was a farmer. He was formerly quite prosperous, but of late had drank heavily, and his wife often had to he'p him from his wagon on his return to his borne, and thence to the house. He was about 65 years old. SWEDISH TROOPS MUTINY Government Much Concerned Over the Disaffection.

Labor Union Decides to Call Out All the Printers in the Kingdom. Stockholm, Sweden, August 7 Swedish troops in the northern part of the country have mutinied, and the government is much concerned. Two regiments, one at Falun and the other at Solleftea, are affected. They are stationed in the northern country, where the labor disturbances first broke out In the timber trade, and the government has been haunted by the fear that the soldiers' sympathies were with the strikers. The mutinous troops have been confined to their barracks.

The executive committee of the Swedish Union, at a meeting held to-day, decided to call out all the printers throughout the kingdom. Many of the grave diggers have defied the orders of their labor union to return to work, and have rejoined the strikers. The food situation In Stockholm shows no improvement to-day, and the strike continues. The hopes of yesterday that the men would withdraw from their extreme attitude have not been fulfilled. DEPARTMENT STORE THEFTS Two Young Women Walked Off With Costly Dresses.

Store Detective Followed Them One Got Away, but Was Arrested at Her Home. Considerable excitement was caused the downtown shopping district this afternoon two young girls, who had stolen valuable dresses from a large department store were captured by the store detective. Miss Jennie C. O'Connor. Miss O'Connor had on a previous occasion been suspicious of the girls' actions when they had come into the store.

Suspecting that the Information might be useful, she shadowed them to their homes last week. Just as the store was closing to-day at noon the detective noticed the two girlg go to the dress goods depart ment, saw them take two dresses a rut rapidlv make their way to the street Waiting until they reached the sidewalk. Miss O'Connor grappled with the two shoplifters. A furious struggle ensued, and in a short time there was a mob oi 500 women gathered around the combatants, lu the fight Miss O'Connor's dress was badly torn. Seeing that she could not handle both girls, Miss O'Connor held with grim determination to the larger of the two.

She tripped her and sat upon her. while the other girl made hr escape In the crowd. Takeu to the Adams street police station, the girl gave her name as Lillian Shannon, 18 years old, of 50 Gold street. Detectives were at once sent to get the other girl. She proved to be Rosle Ma-jeska, 19 years old, of 298 Water street MRS.

WRIGHT DISAPPEARS. Woman Who Was Assaulted and Bobbed in Taxicab Fails to Appear in Court. Mrs. Irene Wright, of 213 East Sixty-sixth street, Manhattan, who was assaulted and robbed last Wednesday mornl lg while being driven to her home in a taxi-cab, failed to appear In the West Side court to-day, when her case against Will-lam B. Curzon, of 157.

West Sixty-ninth street, and William H. Young, of 19 West Sixty-fifth street, was called tor examination. Curzon and Young were arrested by De tectives Hagerty and Barber and wero arraigned in the West Side court on Thursday on charges preferred by Mrs. Wright, whose story, it is alleged, was corroborated in Its essential points by a confession made by Curzon during his examination by the detectives. Magistrate O'Connor adjourned the examintlon of the case until to-day holding the two defendants In $5,000 bail each.

At the time set for the examination today Mrs. Wright failed to appear in court. The detectives grew suspicious and Barber asked the magistrate for a subpeua to produce the complainant. He went to her home in Sixty-sixth street, but found the apartment locked and was unable to get any information about the whereabouts of Mrs. Wright except that the neighbors said that she left the house yesterday.

Barber returned to court and asked the Magistrate to postpone the case until Monday when he hopes he will be able to produce the woman in court. His request was granted and the ball continued. The detectives said they will exert all their energies to find Mrs. Wright and that their attention will no less be directed toward the discovery of the persons who induced Mrs. Wright to disappear.

KING'S GDP RAGE TO-DAY Light Winds Prevail for Annual Contest Off Brenton's Reef. Newport, R. I August 7 The fourth renewal of the race for the King's Cup, $5,000 gold trophy held by the New York Yacht Club, a replica of which goes to the winning yacht, schooners, sloops and yawls all Bailing in one class. Is beine held off here to-day, as the sec ond preliminary event of the annual cruise of the New York Yacht Club. The King's Cup was presented to the club by King Edward in 1906 and the race is open to yachts of all organized yacht clubs over 50 feet on the water line.

The first name to be inscribed unon the trophy was that of the sloop Effort, which won a memorable race off Brenton's Reef Lightship three years ago and defeated the newly built schooner Queen by 9 seconds. The following year the Queen won the race, but last year the sloop Avenger, the moat successful boat of that season and the victor yesterday in the Astor Cup race, was the first home. The race for the King's Cup starts from Brenton's Reef Lightship over a 38-mile course. Under the rules the sevhooners sail on 85 per cent, of their regular rating and yawls on 93 per cent. When the yacnts lert ror tne start to-day the weather was clear while the soft conditions which proved so dis astrous to some of the yachts in the Astor Cup race yesterday, still pre vailed.

rvoreSTtnvtm.V th moat heaitHful resort In the world. Fltman'a New Deut- jcber Garten. Cnnav Island. Adv. The Heffernans' Liquor Shop Will Be Close to Manual Training School.

LICENSE HAS BEEN SECURED. Several Places of Worship Are Within Three Blocks Greenwood Baptists Protest. The members of the Greenwood Baptist Church, at Seventh avenue and Sixth street, held a meeting last evening, presided over by W. A. Flowers, clerk of the church, to protest against the opening of a saloon at the corner of Seventh avenue and Third street.

After several heated addresses by various members of the congregation, a resolution of protest was passed, a copy of which will be sent to the excise commissioners. Frank J. and James Heffernan are the proprietors of the proposed cafe, of which Frank J. will have immediate charge. The Heffernans have other thirst-quenching emporiums at 694 Fourth avenue and at 222 Fifth avenue.

Seeing a chance for profit In catering to the wants of the wayfarers going to and coming from Prospect Park, they purchased the old-fashioned brown stone dwelling at the crossroads mentioned, and mechanics are now busy converting what was once the dining-room and kitchen of the mansion into- a modern tavern. The church people's protest Is based on the proxmity of the cafe to the church and to the Manual Training High School, and It is also Bald that the parishioners of the Church of all Saints at Seventh avenue and Seventh street, are opposed to the Heffernans' enterprise. For some time past the liquid refreshment business in the neighborhood has been monopolized by Charles E. Marten-hoff, whose "solace shop" is located at Seventh avenue and Fourth street, one block nearer the school and church than the new place will be. Mr.

Heffernan, when spoken to about the matter this afternoon, said that the license for the cafe had been obtained In February last and that the "grand opening" would occur early in September. The Oreenwood Baptist Church sent this letter to the deputy state excise commissioner: "Hon. William Watson. Excise Commissioner, Borough of Brooklyn, N. Y.

"Dear sir It has come to our notice that an application has been filed for a license for a liquor saloon to be located on the corner of Seventh avenue and Third street, Brooklyn. "The moral and well beln of the community protest against the same. 'The Manual Training School is located within one block of the said location, the Park Congregational Church within oneanda half blocks, the St. Matthew's Lutheran Church within one and a half blocks, the Greenwood Baptist Church within three blocks, and thohre Is already one liquor saloon located within one block of said location, namely, corner of Fourth street. Therefore, we.

the members of the Greenwood Baptist Church, do hereby most earnestly protest against the same aud ask that you will refuse to grant sic license. "By vote of the church, August 6. "JOEL B. SLOCUM, Pastor. A.

FLOWNS, Clerk, "399 Eighth Street." MAINE WOMAN DESPERATE Shoots Husband Who Wanted Her to Go on Streets. Couple Had Been Here Only a Week. Man Hes Bullet in Jaw, but Will Recover. Mrs. Pauline Gorsett, a frail little woman of 25, with deep marks of suffering and hardship on her face, was held under $500 bail by Magistrate Nash In the Bedford avenue pallce court to-day on a charge of shooting her husband while he lay In bed In their home, on the first floor of the three-story frame tenement at 332 eKap street.

The woman's husband, Morris, who is 26 years old, and a tailor when he works, is In the Eastern District Hospital with a bullet in his Jaw. The woman told the police that she had intended to kill her husband and then take her own life because he insisted that she make money Improperly for him, he being too lazy to work. Gor.sett when he came to in the hospital, denied that he had treated his wife unkindly, and said the only reason she had for shooting him was because he had refused to go back to Lewlston, whence they came a week ago. The couple have been married eight years. They had one cnnci, wnich dica three years ago.

Mrs. Gorsett said that since then her life has been one prolonged agony. When they lived in Lewlston her husband, she said, absolutely refused to work and finally she opened a tailoring establishment to get money enough for food. The business didn't prosper very well and a week ago the couple came to Brooklyn and went to the home of the Gorsett's, MorriB' parents and three sisters. One day after their arrival, the woman told the police, her husband said Brooklyn was "a good place to earn money on the streets." She refused to listen to his suggestions.

He was so insistent, however, that Bhe Anally resolved to end both their lives the very next time he mentioned the subject. Yesterday afternoon she went to a Grapd street pawnshop and bought a 32-callber revolver and enough bullets to load all the chambers. No sooner did her husband wake up this morning than he asked her If she was ready to comply with his suggestion. He showed a railroad ticket, she s.aid. and threatened to leave her at once If she refused.

Then she went to the trunk, got out the rfevolver and shot him. Her nerve failed her after the first shot, and Instead of turning the weapon on herself she dropped It and ran out. Policeman Boiling, attracted by the screams of the neighbors, ran in, but could find no trace of Mrs. Gorsett. A boy said he saw her jump the fence In the rear yard.

Boiling did likewise and found her hiding in an outhouse In the adjoining yard. Then he arrested her. MRS. SUTTON'S LETTERS. Annapolis, August 7 The board of Inquiry which is investigating the death of Lieutenant James N.

Sutton, U. S. M. C. of Portland.

went into session behind closed doors this morning. All the interested parties were admitted, but the public and the press were excluded. The appearance in a New York morning newspaper of parts of the letters supposed to have been written by Mrs. Sutton, which are being read In the secret session of the court to-day, led Commander Hood, president of the board of inquiry, to send out word from the courtroom that the letters referred to in the publication had nothing do with the case, Commissioner of Records Saved by Assemblyman A. E.

Smith of Manhattan. WALKED OFF DOCK IN DARK. Smith Got Him to the Wharf After a Struggle Two Hauled Out by Rescue Party. (Special to the Eagle.) Amityville, L. 1., August 7 Commissioner of Records Lewis M.

Swasey was saved from death In Great South Bay, last night, by the heroism of Assemblyman Alfred E. Smith, from "Tom" Foley's district, in Manhattan. In hi efforts to save the life of Commissioner Swasey, Mr. Smith almost lost, his own. Both Mr.

Smith aud Commissioner Swasey were almost drowned when pulled out of the water by a rescuing party consisting of the guests from Commissioner Swasey's yacht, the Storm. Mr. Swasey would certainly have drowned but for the dogged pluck of Smith, who held on to the commissioner and supported him with the last remnant of his own strength. The thrilling exierience of Commissioner Swasey and Mr. Smith was the only incident to mar an otherwise delightful cruise of the South Bay Yacht Club of 1'rftchogue.

The yachts of the club, with the parties on board, w-at Amiiyville when the accident pened to Commissioner Swa cruise was begun yesterday the first night was spent where the South Hay tertained in the cli' Corinthian Yacn' Commission Wilson of vited with re -y by the were evening, while been losing a good decided to retire for the mt friend, Assemblyman Smith, decK. 10 seek his hunk on the Storm at the same time. When they left the clubhouse the entertainment was in full swing. Mr. Wilson and one of his guests, "Jack" Harrison, were playinir banjos and making music for the dancers.

Commissioner Swasey apologized for leaving when such sweot music was tn heard, but he said that there was nothing like the strummlne tinkle of Wilson's banjo to lull a man to slumber. He and Smith walked from ihe clubhouse down the dock, which extends quite a distance In the bay and then lakes a sharp turn. It was 10 lite I. of the dock thai the Suirm was moored. The night was very dark as the not yet up.

anil, anyway, there were thick iii.line sky. In the darkness. Swis'i'v did not notice that h' had reached the end of the straight stem of and he walked off into the bay. He plunged down inio ih- water, which at thai point was good many feet below dock. Swasey could not swim stroke and was absolutely helpless in the water.

He floundered about, and called to Mr. Smith for help. As soon as Smith realised that Swasey could not swim, he dashed overboard, drepsed as he was In his natty yachting osiume. He seized Mr. Swai-ey.

who was being swept away by the swift tide, had swallowed a great deal of water and he was already almost strangled when Snihh reached him. Smith found it an almost tmpossibla task to keep ttwavey atloat and at the same lime drag him landward against, the tide. However, the swimming lessons whiidi Smith had taken as a boy off the Kast River piecs stood him in good stead. He kept fighting his way ahead until he reached the dock. After dragging Commissioner Swasey to the the assemblyman found that he could not posribly get his burden out, of the water.

The spiles were tall and slippery, and every effort be made to pull himself up, holding Mr. Swasey, only added to Ills exhaustion. Mr. Smith let a few yells, but the music and dancing at the clubhouse drowned otner sounus. iL wasn't until there was a rest on the part of the musicians that Mr.

Smith's cries were heard. Then S01119 of Mr. Swasey's friends rushed down to1 the dock to see what was the matter. They discovered that, they were not able to give anw aid without gel ting ropes or a boat, so tehy hurriedly got out a rowboat and went to the rescue. The rescuing party consisted of David Kemlo.

franklin Taylor, the Brooklyn lawyer; Frederick Schwartz. Leo Bennett, Lawrence T. Dunn. Frank Curtis and Mr. Harrison.

The rescuers pulled Mr. Swasey and Mr. Smith into the boat and carried them ashore. Mr. Swasey was revived and taken aboard his yacht.

Today the South Bay Club men left for Frecport on their cruise. VETERAN RUNS AMUCK. One Man Killed and Two Wounded by Inmate of National Soldiers Home. Dayton, August 7 Edward Leonard, a veteran at the National Soldiers Home, ran amuck this morning, slaying Captain Oscar Eastmond of Barracks No. 6, Central Branch, and wounding two other men.

Eastmond was sitting in his office reading a newspaper when Leonard entered and shot him, the bullet penetrating tho brain. Leonard proceeded to the floor above, where he shot Sergeant George W. Arnold, but not fatally. He m.iunted another stairw.iy and in the upper squad room shot Warren Wright, a private. Wright's injuries are not serious.

By that time the guard took the murderer into custody. Leonard's home is in Boston and he is a veteran of the Civil War and later wars. He is said to have been crazed by jealousies over recent appointments and promotions. Eastmond was colonel of the First North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War. He had been superintendent of the home hotel and was highly esteemed.

He was sixty-nine ye-irs old and leaves a widow who resides in New York City. EMPEROR IN A FOG. Kiel. Germany. August 7 Emperor Nicholas of Russia, who is coming from Cowes on board the Imperial yacht Stand-art, has been delayed by a fog.

Consequently Emperor William's vdans to go to Rendsburg by automobile to meet him have had to be postponed. MRS. ROOSEVELT IN FRANCE. Avignon, France, August 7 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by her sister.

Miss Carew, and one of her sons, arrived here to-day from Milan and stopped over to see the city. The party expects to reach Paris Sunday or Monday. Remains In the Air In His Aeroplane 2 Hours, 27 Minutes, 15 Seconds. GOES AHEAD OF WRIGHTS. Assembled Crowd Gives Him an Ovation When He Alights in France.

Mourmelon-Le-Grand. France, August Roger Somtner, the French aviator, today beat the world's record for prolonged flight in an aeroplane. His machine re mained In the air for two hours, twenty seven minutes and fifteen seconds. Sommer started at fourteen minutes past 3 o'clock this morning in the bright moonlight. In the beginning he traveled slowly near the ground at elevations run ning from six to thirty yards.

After th'S machine had become limbered up tha evlator increased his speed, and the coming of daylight showed him traveling and maneuvering easily. When it becamo evident that he had beaten the duration record held by Wilbur Wright, the assembled crowd cheered wildly, and as Sommer came to the ground at 41 minutes and 15 seconds past 5 he was given an ovation. Sommer, who is a pupil of Henry Far- man, owes his success to his remarkable persistency. He purchased his aeroplane July 4, and his first flight was under four miles. He gradually Increased hlB dis tances until he attained his record of to day.

Yesterday he won, on behalf of Farman's pupils, a prize of $200 for a flight In a closed kilometre. M. Sommer Is one of the new school of French aviators, several of whom have recently made records that would have attracted world-wide attention a year ago. On July 27 he made a flight of one hour, twenty-three minutes and 30 seconds. August 2 he flew nine miles in twelve minutes, which Is at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, and on August 4 he made a flight of a few seconds over two hours.

He is using a biplane of the Voisln type. The record of duration of Wilbur Wright Is two hours, 20 minutes and fifty-seven seconds. It was made at Le Mans. France, last December. August 7 The balloon i Pittsfleld.

with Wlll-olt and Sheldon Whlta-of New York as pas-sr Norfolk, moving in ection, at 7 A.M. The requested Miss Sadie message (sent to Pitta-would try for a long he balloon moved at a over here at 7:30, and at 8 o'clock, led at East Litchfield ng Torrington. JIT IN HOSPITAL iny, August 7 Count an aviator, has been al at Constance for nt of ah abscess on his SWINDLES oATHOLIG WOMEN Fellows Makes Up to Represent a Parish Priest. Offers Catholic Publications at a "Bargain," and Many Have Been Attired in semi-clerical garb, and intoning his voice in what he fancies to be priestly tones, a swindler has been visiting various sections of Brooklyn posing as a solicitor for subscriptions to "The Tablet," the Catholic weekly of the Brooklyn diocese. He covers up his necktie with a handkerchief, when making calls, in the endeavor to convey the Impression that he wears a Roman collar and is connected with some order of the church.

The management of the Tablet Is very anxious to apprehend the fellow who has secured small sums of money from a number of women on a promise to send them the Ave Marie, another Catholic publication; together with the Tablet, for one year for fl. As the subscription price of the Tablet is $2, some housewives have been eager to get a "bargain" and have paid him at once. One woman gave him a $2 bill and he went to the corner "to get the change." She is still waiting for his return. The man represents neither the Ave Maria nor the Tablet, and no one of his description Is known to have been employed on these papers. The "receipts" which he gives for the money are written on ordinary blank forms without any printing representing either one of the papers.

It seems strange that ordinarily keen women should be so easily duped, according to the Tablet management, for the appearance of the receipt is enough to arouse suspicion. Inspector Miles O'eRllly and two detectives from headquarters have been working on the case tor the past week. The man signs the receipts with a different name In almost every Instance, F. Carroll" being the most frequent signature. He writes "15 Barclay Street" at the head of some receipts, but inquiry at this place, which is occupied by a saloon, throws no light on his identity.

All regular solicitors for the Tablet, and for other Catholic publications, are furnished with a letter by the priest of the parish in which they are working, before they go to work. This letter is typewritten on the Tablet letterhead, Is signed by the priest and embossed with the parish seal. Further, all receipts for money received by the solicitors are written on a regular blank, with the name of the paper printed in big type on the face and the amount Is entered in the stub by the solicitor. HERMAN LONG ILL. Denver, August 7 Herman Long, once the most famous shortstop of the National League and a member for years of the Boston team, is seriously III in Denver.

Long came to Denver several month ago because of lung trouble. AMERICAN HOUSES UNPLACED. Paris, August 7 Three American liorses ran in the races at Bernay to-day, but not one succeeded in getting a place. W. K.

Vanderbilt's Congaree was in the Prix Aloplnier, his Sir Peter ran in the Prix Criterion de Bernay, and Ross Adams Hygie started in the Prix.