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Show AFTER CLEVELAND. A CrauV TTho BetTtts that lie Did Sot Shoot the Ex- President. RUSSIAN SPIES IN THC UNITED STATES. The Nctt Orleans IlalUn Affair jUsntnea Considerable Fro- portions. MR. KENNAN ON RUSSIAN PRISONS. The Greatest Piece or News, Yesttrdaj-, In Yfall Slrett. By Telcaraph to the MiM. WAX! ED TO KILL CLETELkXD. John T. Datla Iraaxlnea lllmaeir Iaulied by GroTer. Xew Vork, Xor. 20. Ex-Pnal. Ueot Cleveland has cause for congratulation con-gratulation today over the fact that John T. Davis, the crank who thot and wounded Mlas Gladys Price In the Mariners' Church on Madison Street Tuesday night, did notes-capo notes-capo after his uncalled for attack upon tho vounsorganiat. The burden bur-den of Davis' frenzied talk I his regret re-gret that ho bad not shot Mr. Cleveland, Cleve-land, who he claimed sat near Miss Price during the services and the sight of whom caused Llm to at tempt the young woman's life at tho close of the church service. De-tectivo De-tectivo Canavan says tbe man is undoubtedly insane on the subject of his imaginary marriage to Miss I'ricu, although ho talks ratioually enough on other matters. Before leaving the station house for the Tombs court this morolmt Davis stated that he had followed Cleveland to various cities in thL-country thL-country as well as over the ocean to London, for tho ixirrxre of getting him to tight a duel. He claims thai he challenged the cx President in a Greenwich lodging house night be fore last, but a crowd of Cleveland' friends got around lilm and gavt him a bad beating. "It la a very fortunate circumstance," circum-stance," said detective Cauavan, "that this crank did not take It lute his bead to attack Mr. Cleveland before going to tho Mariners' church." |