Show GOTHAM GOSSIP italians DWI nant the ilacas Rain scar Tent tuii perance ranee talk A Short tilled lived hect Sl shiret iret street saras sir ays from our corre HERALD new york is seldom more than three or four days without its mastery mystery but I 1 think since the beginning of J june tine there has been cothin no thin worthy TO arthy of the tile namo name until now low lirly early on oil the morning of may tay loin louis NV clerk and confidential a agent ent for tile firm coombs crossley adds hardware merchants was assaulted on oil fifty seventh street near sith sixth avenue lie ile was on oil liia his way to hia his lodging lodgings and rind was in company with a alia il anale w hose whose bubb hustind and was absent it fr from 0 tile city ile and so severely beaten that HE DIED ON SUNDAY up ue to tho tile timo time of tile present writing nd nj clue to the perpetrators the assault ins has been obtained and n no 0 one but an occasional poli policeman iceman seems to have a theory aa as to why the tile outrage was committed mr air outer muth and his companion whom he ile had known but a few days had been to the theater and according to one report hid had stomped at two leer beer saloons on their way way home this fact would warrant tho tile infer inference enco that when the attack was mado the hour was late and it is is more than probable that tile assailants or one of them thein were actuated by jealousy or that tikey made a mistake and attacked the wrong roan mail mr gutermuth Gul ermuth had been for more than three years cars with coombs 1 crossley Cross lcy eddy and had an unblemished reputation among business bustness men for eighteen months lie had been mexican agent for the firm and was looked upon as a man of far more than ordinary ability his mother and sister live in e in in boston the mystery of tho the case lies partly in in tho the fact tint that ins ilis assassins cannot lo be 10 traced and partly in the other fact hardly less important perhaps that seems to be but few ew people who w ho hav havo fi any knowledge of tho the existence of mrs Ilaw kes husband it is said that mr hawkes is is in in canada and that for sometime somo timo back ho lie anahis and his wife havo have been separated tins this would seem probable in in view view of recent events the police theory is ii that mr gutermuth was mistaken for mr clapp a son of the late proprietor of the rossmore Koss house and one of tho the assailants was robert cla clapp p his brother between whom and an himself an ail ugly feud lias has existed for two tw 0 or three years thero Ther may onlay be some bottom to this chis theory but experience peri per ienco ence teaches that police theories are of but litt levalue balue nie THE SEW NEW YORK DETECTIVE usually jumps at a conclusion forms a theory and works up to that without reference to facts and circumstances that may lead him in in another direction as for example in the nathan murder case and many others that arc are still matters of mastery mystery on sunday last lasta a that signer signor mined Gari baldis old id friend now occupying Gari baldis 0 former homo home on braten island was guilty of a violation of tho the excise law in in selling liquor on that day th the e old warriors warrior was as arrested and taken before squire IN vaughan aughan who beld court in in ills his own parlor and in in consideration of the fact that tha t the veteran was a of the first water discharged him bim on oil the following day about A THOUSAND ITALIANS went ent down dow n to staten island from tins this city with bands bards of music music and flags draped in mourning to do honor lionor to the italian patriot on the spot where years cars ago as an ail exile lio lie labored at candle making fora for a living the exercises excises were touchingly touching interesting and before the day bachman the brewer presented the garibaldi baldt 1 liou lionso soto to the italians appointing one of the countrymen as a permanent perma permanent newt occupant nothing new as yet in the case of Ram Rain scar sear the sanctimonious philanthropist at whose homo home so r many children have died of starvation I 1 Itam ambear scar is a worthy successor of the kev rev cow cowley ley pastor of tho the notorious I 1 old whose case rec recently cutly attracted so much attention and cowley in in turn is 13 a worthy successor of the tile rev 0 C townsend who died here a few years ago while on trial for starving bittle unfortunates at ins his so called homes ll omea in in tins this city and on staten island ho ile had been driven from philadelphia for a 11 like ke of odense rense and had started a flourish flourishing 1119 business of baby farming g liere here bu but t lie fanned farmed too rapidly that is lie buried too many babies it is is a about but time that these pseudo homes for poor children should bo be more thoroughly investigated after being more careY carefully care lully ully watched it is is not too much to eay say that four out of five of them are ess operated for the personal benefit of their managers on the morning odthe of alie of may jerry hartigan a 1 liquor dealer of chatham square while standing stand ingin in front of ins his place waa was ED TIM 18 1 8 bya by a stranger and for some weeks lay at the point of death yesterday lie was strong enough to appear at court to tt confront ins bis assailant who haa had been cn captured p aured after much trouble th the judge was about to send the scoundrel to prison but soul wag was attuned to mercy merey iio he begged that the man mig it be allowed to go coleman ho lie sa said d you on tried ta to kill BC me but for the aa sake ce of of your our poor mother and sister I 1 d decline celino to press the charge against you ou when you u stabbed me you oil was drunk and did not know w il hat at you was w as doing take my advice tile addico of a man who makes his living bythe by alie sale of liquor and nyer nc cr drink another cropas long as you ou live one word more keep keel out of my ava way dont crosa cross my path for I 1 cant forgive vou ott for what you ou hav edone this last injunction was too plain to bo be misunderstood hartigan once an active politician of the fourth ward has killed ins his man Coleman tf sentence was suspended b by tho the court and lio lie left the tile room looking like ft a man who had narrowly escaped a flog flogging ginz at the whipping THE TILE SUNDAY TATTLER TATTLE rep that appeared upon the broad sea of journalism three week ag ago haigono to the bottom it was a light craft not sufficiently balanced to stand 11 en a zeph r of spring alara A largo 11 part of its space was taken up with the advertisement of a book of poems written by tho the proprietor a story by I 1 ita p publisher b aih e r occupied occupied half its remaining 1 g space P e in ind its edi editors comments on oil m men c n and affairs filled nearly all that was left what room remained was devoted to a poem by ti tho n e publisher and proprietor eft r no nobody t 0 d y knew know where it was published tile news dealers did lid not seem to k know n 0 i v anything of its existence and even tile newspaper men did not seem to have heard anything about it A rumor says that oscar wildo wilde is about to marry a youna young literary lady of massachusetts CAlt MCCLOSKEY will spend a part of the summer in I 1 newport trustee roosevelt will resign his position 0 arsi k on in the tile manna manne ement of the tile brooklyn I 1 0 ly bridge after being in office f for r three years yean giving as a reason that iio lie is little bet tor informed with tho lie workings of the department than I 1 lie io was when i first appointed A stage proprietor otters for r the franchise of coi constructing a borso borso rail railroad road through broadway twenty public school 1 buildings arc are to bo be thoroughly overhauled during th the 0 summer vacations the repairs ar arc 0 much needed an ali unusual unusually heavy verdict of has been g given liven against the third avenue R it co for running over a boy causing tho tile loss of ocono one of liis his legs the pay of tile laborers employed in inthe 1 the I e various departments of tho the city works lias has been increased to 2 a day yn MR EDWIN BOOTH lias has gone to E england to fill edgag engagements in alie london theaters 8 heig iio is accompanied bj bi his daught erand and will bo be absent about twelve months A brooklyn police court yesterday presented the sad spectacle of five drunken mothers mot liers with their eighteen neglected children NEMO NEW YORK juno june 19 issa |