Show IS ALLOWED TO 60 LITTLE GIRL PROVED TO BE UN CERTAIN WITNESS county attorney positive a crime has been committed and Is angered from wednesdays standard at the convening of the police court this morning county attorney hulan isal arose and requested the court tha the two cases against thomas 0 richards one of rape and the other of attempted rape be dismissed judge burphy ordered that the motion be granted in asking that the cases against the man bo dismissed mr hul stated that in view 0 the contradictory statements made by allva lewis the young girl on whom tho crimes were alleged to have been corn clotted he could not ask the court or a jury to believe the girl furthermore he stated thathy knew for a act that the girl bad not been raped on sunday last as alleged an that in view of these lacta tacta he did not care to push the case there waa ample ground for the bringing of the complaint and the commencement of the prosecution and so the richards case follows closely on the heels of the harddng case would be interesting to ehnow just what influence has been exerted in bobb ol 01 theng cases whereby a statement as made one day and denied the next that there Is a criminal prosecution due someone is evident to all who have followed the richards case at all tor there is a certain amount of evidence that the states witness was tampered with this morning county attorney hul would not say it any further action was to be taken he could anly say that he dd not purpose to put the county to the expense of a trial when he himself could not believe his own witness 1 I will say though he continued that there was ample ground for the bringing 0 the prosecution and I 1 know a crime was committed asked it be knew about richards cutting his small sons tongue he said only what I 1 have en itne i papers but it it is true he should be prosecuted for it the county attorney is vexed over the be has had with witnesses lately and purposes to take some ac uon that will cause people to have more regard for an oath LAUNCH 18 SUNK at least three persons supposed to be lost new york july 12 it Is that three and possibly four alvea wera lost last night when the steam launch normandie was sunk in collision near dobbs perry with a vessel supposed to have been a tramp steamship in the hudson river those who are believed to have been lost are captain storm and en gincer brady of the launch normandie and miss gladys dodge of this city J J greene of new york also la missing the normandie was owned by C C dumont of new york but had been chartered by him to john A budd of glenwood mr rudd was on board the launch af the time of the collision and it was from him the police of yonkers received the meager information regarding tha disaster rudd further said there was an explosion immediately after the steamship struck the launch and that it is possible that those who lost their lives were injured so severely that they were unable to help themselves HE WAS SARCASTIC judge commented on equitable ipser ance affairs i new york july 12 in sentencing emil H neumer an equitable lite assurance society awk to the elmira reformatory tor an indeterminate period lor complicity in the robbery of a policy from the companas comp anys vaults justice foster of the court of general sessions today commented on other equitable losses he said your methods are very crude and bungling it you had instead of collusion with an outsider colluded with an insider and thereby had your salary raised to and then divided with the other man the result would not have been hurtful to ers but possibly you would not have been at the bar of justice neumer gave the loucy to samuel lobley who borrowed money on it and who is now in sing sing tor the 0 tense WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN washington july ll 11 the weather bureaus weekly crop bulletin says in the districts east of abs tbs rocky mountains temperature conditions were generally favorable there was no rain in toe rocky mountain and pacific coast regions in central and northern california and portions of oregon and washington intense heat prevailed during the latter part of tha week spring wheat continues promising in north pacific coast though exposed to trying heat conditions during the latter part of the week with but few exceptions a light apple crop is indicated on the pacific coast the weather has been very favorable tor haying FIRE LESS SERIOUS san joss cal july li report from the lick observatory on mount hamilton were more reassuring the forest fire is still about ten miles away and a change in the wind during the night prevented th alamea from reaching the mountain the loss of umber and pasturage haa been serious pittsburg july persons are seriously injured as a result of an explosion in a dwelling house at fortieth street and liberty avenue tha explosion is thought to have been caused by natural gas the house was wrecked and two adjoining dwellings caught alra allowing lawyers to appear in the arbitration court has proved a great drain on tho funds of new south wales unions which have placed their cases before the court x |