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suddenly before tOo Excise 10anyesterday bythe dismissal of the Capt1lckettand three policemen from the est Thirtiethstreet station tcstllled ngnlnst the place Po-liceman

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Kelly said that ho wan taken there bya woman whom he had wet In the street SheIntroduced him to Hicks nnd they had severaldrinks Hu paid Hicks for a furnished roomPoliceman Itcardon said that several comvlalnthad been received at tho station bOlso frommen who hail been robbed by women In thoplace Ilotsnld that another complainant was aunman who lisd lout a watch a small amountof money toni 40000 worth of securities Inthe place lieardon said that he knew three urfour of tho woolen who frequented tie placebe disorderly chiracKT tFor the defence A K Aaron Manager of theRnlety Theatre testified that al the chorusgirls In lila company boarded and wero alrespectable horace Mitchell of IO West Ttyi lxth Hreellndrtbur P lluckloy brokerot 8th ev otnot tcetllled thut they haul fre-iiurnteil the place and that Iho actresses therewore all reapettablo and well behaved 1 U-

Atcrlll iinotlier broker said that he hadvisitedt the place and had seen nothing wrongMrs lImbs test ill i l that she had never letrooms to anybody except to boarders by theweek Hicks was nbotil tit take thu stand whenthe CommUslnner dismissed the complaint

tolkca1111 Henntol nid atter urd that thewomiiti who tho S 10000 worth of securitieshad settled tho rose nnr gotthtesecurities LackHe declined to give name saying she was arespectable married woman

SHOWED KVnilCII HIS HOOTS

Although lie Need A Ne v Pair IIiBdcn-telB UuHt support III Wire

Louis Hradensteln a driver for a pickling es ¬

tablishment was charged In Jefferson MurketCourt yesterday afternoon with abandonment-and nonsupport bv his wife Mary who livesvlth her four children at 343 West Thirtyninthstreet She cnld that although her husbandearned 10 awccK he contributed nothing to hersupport

Bradeostelns trousers were tucked In a pairof heavy cowhide boots the toes of which werebroken

It would bo all right Judge said MrsJrdlstell h If tny husband would only come

I wont rnma home shouted Ilrndenstelnlive ma six months Judge and Il be glad to

terve It but I draw the Pine on homeMagistrate Kudllcli was disposed to grunt his

request hut determined tn hear his story frst-hII have heretofore given my wit Sweek said llrmlonsteln nut I nm trying toHnoenollRh to buy tot iivcrront now and altarJan 11 wi give her part of my wages again InIl n n new pair of boots he continuedh If you dont believe me Judge you can see foryourMlf and the reralcllrntit husband by tinnirnrdlllr effort lifted bis right foot until

was on u level with the Maglstratostnce

That iIi suftlclcnt nald MaKlstrnto Kndllchhastily When Ilrndensteln had lowered hUtool hr wn held In loU bonds to pay his wileIl per week

Kiriin JI1 A-

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Operator Crushed In the Postalruble Ilillldlne

William J Wiseman n telegraph operator3S years old of Ul Wayne street Jersey Citywits crushed to death cm IJ otei day afternoonby an olevuor In the Piiitnl Cable building ntIlroadway anti Murray Streett

Patrick Qulnn thoulovntor lan of 343 Pearlstreet Rail jUit started to osaka an up trip atISiJOoclock Ihero were only Ihrco ofourmen In the ai Quinn hnd not had time to closethe door to the elevator shift btforn Wisemanrun In and made an attempt to catch the start-ing

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elevator He hInd got partly Into tho car RIt began to go up tho elevator man In his anxietyto keep him from entering having forlotcliol-ot go of llir lover The next Intalt Ismaln ub caught IctwIrn the nlorntor and thin side ofI ho hnfStreet cl1> whlo lellllunredI to tho

Jwas found at the hospluil that four nf theribs had buen brokon and the spine Injured

The elevator lined In thin Postal Cable buildInc are Spraxuelectric elevators It Is said thatthesis elevators stop thu Instant the operatorshand leaves the lever The suddenness withwhich Wisemm rustled In caused Quinn to losehis presence of mind and forget thin QuillIwho IIn under arrest listiiferlncfrorn nervousexcitement due to the accident

Mayor OMee Hlonrn Up the Teaebera PayThe public school teachers did not let their

pay yesterday athe Comptroller lisa promisedhand and Hecor Clerk Alexander of theMayors whom the warrants wereturned over nn Wed iiosday with u request tohurry them up didnt finish signing them nnlIt was too lute lo suet them tn thethu littler will bn paid on Monday as usual HieComptroller tried to IIKTO them get their nayearlier thou usual ecu that they could have twoHutnriluis for shopping before ChrUtmas

JUSTICE GAYNOR INCENSED

JtEJtVKKa-AOATKIVZ

ANAJI2IMI2 70 TAIR MRROM VASrrVl

lie Hnjn Mr Wnter Cornea late n H petable family and Meddles with ItA

IVIsben lie Could Impose a 11in-

Justice William JOaynor who travelled atan unusual hour to a way station on Long Mand last month that the law might Intervenefor tho suppression of nn Institution where Insane persons were illegally held In custody andnt the close of tho proceedings pronounced dietrial a wholesome one yesterday In Urooklyn

vaequally emphatic In condemning the Inter ¬

ference of unaccredited persons with the familyaffairs of an Insano person Incarcerated In aduly licensed asylum

Tho matter before him which called out a-

very tgorotu extrajudicial deliverance wasthe return of a writ of habacorpus by whichElbert Noatrand an aged man of means wasbrought tn court from Or Combes sanitationat Woodhaven Long Island Tho writ was ob-

tained¬

on Thursday upon tim petition of JohnII Water a hotel proprietor of RockawayIleach who lisa been for many years a friend ofMr Xnntrnnil Iwas nlleecd that Nostrandwas nut Insano and hail been Incarcerated with-

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due legal prores null there was talk offamily discord anti I largo Income from theproperty of Mr Nostrandwho Is the proprietor of-

a patent medicine largclyiold In Brooklyn Thewrit wn returnable at a oclock yesterday andMr Nostrnnd ann several membrof his fam-ily

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and several doctors were court LawyerMolt who had secured thin writ for Mr Waterstold Justice Uaynor that the counsel had agreedthat the Iirarlnc bo postponed for two weeks Inorder to sea whether Mr Nostrand would bebenefited br remaining In the sanitarium buttho Justice said there would bno postpone-ment

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Ill finish this matter this afternoon hesaid 1eoplo cant bo going Into lunatic asy-lums

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and private sanitariums Irresponsibly tthe scandal of families I will not postpone thehearinl This Is a public affair now The man

custody of the courtThe Justice nke whether the person who

sued out the was related to Mr Nostrandshill when ho found that he was not ho ap-peared

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to be IncenseMr Watra was put on the stand and said ha

had been a hotel keeper at Itockaway Beach for-a score of years Ho had known Nostrand fortwentyfive and had seen him almostearldaily On Monday ho went to the sanitarium-at Ncwtown anti tried to ROhim but was notallowed to do PO He saw Nostrand in court onThursday and although tho old mal appeareddebilitated his conversation was clear He didnor act like a crazy person He recognized allwho spoke to him The witness said tlmt hotook these proceedings because he couldnt seeMr Nostrand at the sanitarium and was ad-vised

¬by Dr Combo to do to sincthe Doctor

could not allow him to see MrNostrand ho said used to go toptentnesss hotel almost every day wit

On crossexamination by a lawyer who ap-peared

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for the respondents to the writ and whoIs related to Mr Nostrand Mr Waters ad-mitted

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that Dr Combs had told him that reNostrand haul antI had not been ¬

loweto see her husband because It might ex¬

John II Remsen who had Interested himselfwith Mr Waters In securing the writ of habacorpus took the stand nnd said thatknown Mr Nostrand for twentyfive years hahe did not appear to bo crazy Mr NostrandBtnyed atltockanuy Beach for several weeks lastsummer and sat almost every day on Waterssstoop

For tho respondents Dr Stowart II liontonwas railed to testify that he had attended theNostrand family for ninny years and that hohind signed the certificate rrlatol to the con ¬

dltol of Mr Noslrand bleve to bIlsountmlnd Mr =ostranr orhealth god and al-

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there wanothlnc specially the orwith him Dhyslcnlrllu was very matwm marked hallucinationsantI eenie t to the Doctor tn be sufTerini fromsuet Incipient but oretty well advaocellaresisDr Ilunton said that he WWLunacy commissioned by the State

Dr Henry T lIlies also a Mate Examiner lettilled that ho had examined Mr Nostrand onDoc 3 Mr Nostrand was unable to rememberdates or names und hits condition was that ofnn insane man Ho had nervous tremors asort of paresisDr that his Institution walicensed bv tlio State Mr Nostrand he sidwan suffering train senile dementia

This ended the testimony Justice Gaynorsaid ho luaU heard enough

This Is the most Impudent piece of huslDelI ever hoard of that ever came beforetno Justice Hero is a hotel keeper of Hookway who cornea into a respectable family andmeddlewith their private affairs so as to get

man to come and sit on his hotel steps atKockaway Beach as near as I can make outI lund some way of imposing a fine on this IId do It-

Yuu are mere Intermcddler youve got noright there whatever he continued If youwanted to see him the decent way was to go toMrs Nostrand she would probably take youdown there

They wouldnt even lot tier see him brokein the petitioners counsel

That was the Doctors wise precautionJustice Qa > nor reDleWhat of the asked counsel

The writ Is dismissed said Justice Qaynnrin tones that made his disapprobation of theproceedings dourly understood antI I wishthat I could impose about fnoo costs on the manwho ued It out nnd Ill look at the statute andten It there Isnt some way of dolnr It

Before Mr Nostrand was back to thesanitarium he was taken Into the Judges roomthat Justice jaynor might personally see hisrendition When JuMbo Qaynor came out hosaul that the man when in the sanitariumjust where he ought to be and that It Washame to have brought him out Mr Nostrandahe said did not even know where he lived orthe number ot his house

SHOILrFLlNABBED AT ALTMANSrtloie Detective Wouldnt Proaeeute BO

WUe Wat DischargedDetective Sergeants Foyo and Price of the

Central Office were detailed recently tdo ape ¬

cal duty In the shopping district on Sixthavenue between Fourteenth and Twentythirdstreets At noon yesterday they strolled IntoAltmans store and while there saw a talldarkeyed woman pick up a pair of scissors antisecreto them under the long heavy cloak whichsho wore When sho left the store Foye fol-

lowed¬

her and asked her to return and pay forwhat she hull stolen

IIf you will only give me the opportunity topay for them I will be a thousand obligedtt you answered the woman without the least-elnbutrmaseflL

In thin ofllc c of tile superintendent she said shewas Ml s Kmrua Taylor al ear old nt leaSurond incline and fh was a teacher oftn18h hlio added that sue had taught the

M of lan prominent pimple and she of¬fered us reference tho names of several wellknown residents of thus city Upon her personwere fuund it third hand kerchieft two pocketlinnki u illverHiniinttHl olotrlin Iwittln AMIutliriii pairs of fchbu-

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she was before MagistrateIn thin Jefferson Market Police Courttho store detective asked that she he remandeduntil today BO that lie could ascertain whethertlm people whose names she gave knew Pier

YOU people always want tn make a distinc ¬

Iion In thvu raitcs saul Mnirlftrala KudllohI you catch n poorly dressed woman5 always want her held fur trial sealllithief happens to bwell dressed and prosperouslookIng you seek have her dlschareed on theground that ePic Is a kleptomaniac This courtwill rerognlro no such distinctions Itint remand this wonton if you do nne

11kwicharge aguluxt liar now I will dischargeIho detective would not make a

salt the woman was discharged complaint

A Shoplifter Who Hued lee leGertrude or Clarlsse Nelson also known aAdelaide Martin a > 011 woman who describedherself as an artist tald she lived at 212East Fortysecond street wits convicted beforoJudge Crm Infill the General Sessions yester¬

day of shoplifting She was acruied of stealIng gloves from Ebrlchs on March 10 but therewas corns doubt unit Magistrate Hlmiin lot tieruo hba brouuhl suit for 1230011 agulina thefirm About a month afterward Mm wits caughtstralln J a pair of earring In Macrs5100 and Mntulllo thirty days In NI-I nnetentlary a in tho Special BesilonsKhrlth Brothers then iiroiight their complaintlirfore the iraiiil Juiy and sPin was Indictedbhe was rrmuudd for ncntcnie

Ao Iniuno honn Hlinrv IIn Mlur tltarjmMnnrySarah henry trite of Charles 1 Henry the

Inkano ton of Miner fhnrlrs Henry who erasmurdered In HrncUMi tC tow months ago hasallllllor Itint appointment iif 1 roinmlttee onnhnre In Ito oitutc vulimi-alwut KUtinu Vita gill1 tn Walter HenryatIU now acting an trustee of this estate

rtUSIXESS TJROOOLES-

iim Campbell A Co Uonanctarer orWoollen hake an AlacWilliam Campbell Co manufacturers of

casstmeres Ac of fiS Whitewoolens treetat Clifton Heights Pa mlde aaassignment yesterday t William M lousegiving a preference to George CampblPhiladelphia for 13000 for brrowe1 moneyThe partners ore William Campbell and Samuel8 Stewart his nonlnlaw Mr Campbl hasbeen In business forty years In thll city and

aa fnoal f 5PhIAlnhlR Tn rnb1Elliott The factory ofnthe old firm In Phlladel

phi was destroeby Urn In September 1801 1Involving loss The firm occupied ablock of ground at Twelfth and Washingtonstreets and Mr Campbell has recently boonforced to sell the land at a great sacrifice Theassignment was thn result no said yesterday ofthe general depression In the woollen trade losssustained by the fire Increased demands oflabor and the Increased cost of manufacture onaccount nf the rita In the price ot wool Hshoped to be able to make a satisfactory settle-ment with creditors The trade estimatesliabilities at from 100000 to 100000

An attachment has been obtained againstBernhard Ounst who kept a restaurant at 387Grand street in favor of Solomon Loeb forthree months rent It Is alleged that about Sept20 Quest turned the restaurantoverto his cooktransferred nil his real estate and left the cityowing considerable money to creditors anagoing to Wllllamsburgh Va

William WIcpert arid Frederick C SchmidtWlepert Schmidt manufacturers ot fursand fur garments at 14 West Fourth streetmade an assignment yesterday to Angel JSimpson giving preferences to Joseph UllmannS133V and to Leopold Well lImos 81700They started In business for themselves on Feb1 last and found It one of thus worst seasonsever known In the fur trade thirty failures hay1ns been reported In this line tIde season

R H Overton Son dealers In paper stockand chemical fibre at 41 Park row made a sot ¬tlement yesterday with their creditors on pri-vate

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