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THE DAILY REVIEW
Of Nassau County
Official Paper, Village of Freaport
FREEPORT, N. Y, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921
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VoL XXIV, No. 64
CONFERENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL , aids OPENS WITH SIS>PER
Three Hundred-Y. W. C. A. Members Attend An¬ nual Event Now In Session In Rockville Cen¬ tre—Delegates Come From All Sections of Nassau and Suffolk Counties
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New Numbers of Nassau Boy Scout Troops And Dates of Orii^inal Registration
Rorkvllle Centre,,Mny 7.—The rain did not deler the dolegntPM to the third annual Christian .As.sociation, which be¬ gan IfH se.s.slons at the Masonic Temple Auditorium last evening at 7.30 o'clock, following a get-lo(rPthe.r gathering and legistratlon in the Public Library in the late afternoon.
About three hundred young girls en- Joyr-fl a plc-isant evening while .leated nt. four long tables in the auditorium. ] Tho themp of the affair was "Follow | the flleam," ami lighted candle burn- ; ed merrily on the tables, while the girls ' .<tang and cheered. The toasts wero ex¬ cept lotmlly fine. j
Hand drawn .ind hand colored menu cards, nrndp by th<' "Y" girls of Hock- . vlllp C<:ntre. proved to be pretty sou- : venli-8. They 'bore two blue triangles' nnd n V)urnlng candle in a candle stick. with the slogan. "P'ollow the (ileum." 'The supper was prepared and served by the Woman'.s C.uiid of the Ascension Kpi.scopal Chnrih, and though the menu was lln|llpil, it comprised c.-irefully se¬ lected and tasly dishes.
\'lllace Fre.sidenl Welcemes tiuesls (ilailys Hill of Roekvllle Centre-was > the I oast mistress. Hhe e.vplained the ' r>uri)OHe of the gathering and then in- trmluccd Kdwln \\'. Wallace, president of the village, who eslentled :i lieiirty welcome to the girls.
All.HM Kli/„tbelh Herring, county sec- retnry, Northtwestern Kield, Y.W.C.A., was the chief, speaker of the evening. She trtok as her subject, "l-'ollow the (¦team
AUBREY PETTIT TRIAL TO OPEN MONDAY AT MINEOU
Mineola. May 7.—Aubrey Pettit, of Baldwin, will be place<l on trial Mon¬ day before Ju.stice t'rop.sey and a Jury, on an indictment charging him with criminally receiving stolen good.s, spe- ciflcally mentionmg u motor car,
Charles Tt. Weeks, dIMrict attorney, will repi-PHent the Htate, and fJeorgc Morton Levy will appear for the de¬ fendant.
BOYSPUYINC HOOKEYSTAYAWAY FROM THEIR HOMES
Two Bellmore Youths Fail To
Show Up After Police Put Them
On Train Bound Homeward
Hew Ho. Old Hame and Hnmber Date of Orir. Btt:'n
I—Roslyn Troop One October 18. 1911
2—Woodmere Troop One October 24, 1911
3—haldwin Troop One May 6, 191.1
i—Floral Park Troop One July 11. 1914
fi—Itockville Centre Troop Two .August 15, 1914
6—Olen Cove Troop One October 6, 1914
7—Port Washington Troop One December 10, 1914
8—Olea Cove Troop Two April 22, igi.";
9—Freeport Troop Two May 12, 1915
10—Great Neck Troop One May|k7, 1915
H—Olen Core Troop Five Juljl'6, 1915
12—Glen Cove Troop Four October 14, 1915
13—Franklin Square Troop One March 11, 1916
14—Hempstead Troop One (No. 00830) July 11, 1916
15—HempBtead Troop Two (.No. 0S831) July 11, 1916
16—Roclivflle Centre Troop Three July 25, 1916
17—Westbury Troop One October 16, 1916
18—FreepM-t Troop Three October 21, 1916
19^—Jnwood Troop One October 30, 1916
20-r—Lawrence or Cedarhurat Troop One December 4, 1916
21—Woodmere Troop Two December 5, 1916
22—Hlckuvllle Troop One April 6, 1917
23—Merrick Troop One April 7, 1917
24—Massapequa Troop One June 11, 1917
25—Bellmore Troop One June 22, 1917
26—New Hyde Park Troop Two December 10, 1917
27—Wantagh Troop One March 15, 1918
»283—Olen Cove Three April 11, 1918
29—Manhaaset Troop One April 19, 1918
30—Lynbrook Troop One October 24, 1918
31—Westbury Troop Three December 9, 1918
32—Rockville Centre Troop Four January 19, 1920
33—Roosevelt Troop One April 16, 1920
34—Hempstead Troop Four May 6, 1920
30—Ocean Side Troop One July 1, 1920
36—Freeport Troop Four August 14, 193*
37—Oyster Bay Troop One November 11, 1920
38—Rockville Centre Troop Five January 10, 1921
;t<i—Oyster Bay Troop Two January 10, 1921
40—Rockville Centre Troop One February 15, 1921
41—Seaford Troop One , . . April 7. 1921
42—Glen Cove Troop Seven April 22, 1921
43—5ea Cliff Troop One May 4, 1921
^OSS MISCARRIAGE OF ISTHT DECLARES JUDGE CROPSEYimPLANTJIIRYFAOJ TO AGREE
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ANNIVERSARY OF I.ISITAMA ftlNKINi
New York, May 7.—Today U thi JKlxth anniversary of the mmr'i ' greatest horror—the Hlnking of thi ; l.usitilnia.
The great liner was torpedoed Sthe Irish coast by thp German sui 'Smarlnt- l.'-3i» In thp lifternoon 8 Afay 7. IHIG, with a loss of 1,16' iK lives, 114 of them AmericaiiH.
Releases Defendant Under $10,000 Bail And Sets
Monday, May 16, As Date For New Trial—
Dismisses All Jrial Jury But WOliam J.
DriscoU of Ocean Side
(PASSENGER ^ PLANE LEAVES HAZELHURST
With Mail Plane Pilot AlUson As Pathfinder, It Leaves For Fast Trip To Chicago At 6.30 This Momint—63 Year Old Aviator An Enthusiastic Passenger
Freeport, Maf 7.—Police Chief Hart- ; man of Freeport picked up two boy« on I Wednesdiiy, who were loitering around \ the Htreet. tpon questioning them j lhey gave the names of Jame.s Hoyce,} age 18, and Hughes IJoyce, age 11, of' I Smlthville .South.
I Chief JHartman pul the boyw on a ' train for Mellmore und thought nothini; and in nn ImprKssive manner i more of the matter. Thur.sday the tru- bi-ouKht out the necPBHity of sincerity ' ant ofllcer of the Hellmore .school.s, Mr,s. and perviee as the ptwentlal Qualities of i Dora .Uettrick, appeared in Frec|)ort In friendship. ' search bf the hoys, and naid that they
Mrs. Loren H, Rockwell, pre.sWenf of had not been seen at their homes since, the Board of Director.^ of the I'Oug Isl- ; Kesidents of Bellmore have professed and Y.W.C.A.. talking under the theme, ' to know nothing ab«ut the ca.se, and}. "Hearchliglit on l^uig Island," told of no general alarm has been sent out for, the things done on Long Island by the ' any mi.s.sirig boys, .so it nwiy be ma- > Y.W.C..A.; of thte nped of Ihe organi-; sumed that the little IruanUs .stBye<r xalion; of the .service whiih it render.s j away until hunger finally drove, them nnd explained the reasons why it should , home to a slipper, maybe, but lo a warm I ipcelve the .support of the cummunlties.
Other speakers were: Violet .-Mipn of Ocean Side, subject, "Candle l„ight;" Doiothy Loll. Huntington, "Moonlight;" Marjorie Adams. (Ireenporl, ".¦^larlight," and Lois Rainger, l^y Shore, "Sun- llRht,' V •*
The Revs. Frederick H. Handslield, of A.scension Church, "and Alevander F, Johnson, of the Baptist Ch,ut;ch, oecu- Iiied seats at the gi^e.st tuble;(j'
Ocean ,Side .SUrtH the Cheering
Songs and cheers marked the ."session. Ocean Side was the flrst to give a cheer. But Southampton introduced a novel song, nnd in the cxiurse of Its rendition. It invited the "Y" girls to bold the next conference In their hoote town. The whole as.sembloge .sang "Follow the Gleam," This song law a moral pe¬ culiarly befitting girls. It wa.s the priee ,song written by the Va.ssar College Oirls, ;|pd won the designation at the Sliver Bay College confei-ence last year.
Tho four clubs of Rockville Centre, namely, the Alpha Chapter, Heta Chap. ^¦<\*r and Delta Chapter of the Blue Tri¬ angle t^lub, and the .Morris Avenue C,iv\»' Reserve Corp.s, were represented to th^> number of 120^
Program For Todky 1
At the Masonic Club this morning at j 9.30, the girls o^t tor devotional ser- : vit'e, lead by MisH Alice Webb, of South- nmptou. At 10, Miss Klizabeth Herring | took up a dlscu.ssiou under the stibject, | "Searchlight on 'Our Club Purpose," I Ml.is Mildred Roe, gli-l«' work .secretary, j Northeaatern Field, turned the search¬ light "On Our Program;" Dr. George H. McNair, of the Jamaica Training School, dwelt on "The I<\iture," and Miss Bertlia Funke. of the Women's Trade Union League, talked on "The tiirl in Industry." Tbls concluded the Binrning session, :uid the girin adjourned for lunch.
Afteriii^m l>r«gram
The altemoon program Included:
2 p.m.—Leaders' Grouii—Discu-sslon— Miss KliBRbeth Herring.
BOY scour COUNCU, CHANGES NUMBERS OF EVERY TROOP
Each Unit Will Hereafter Bear a Different Number —besijjj^afibiis Made According To Senior¬ ity In Registration — Re-arrangement Decided On To Eliminate Confusion
meal, which was he.st of all.
AERIAL CIRCUS TO ' BEHEDTOMORROW;
Profram of Thrilling Stunts To Be'
Given At Mitchel Field,
Weather Permitting
Mitchel Fleld, May 7.--Weather con-j ditions permitting, the aerial circus,! which was postponed last Sunday be- [ cause of the storm, will be held at thia!
Held tomorrow, with the .same program ¦ vanWge. Should, as seldom happens, that wus arranged for last Sunday. ' however, any troop or group from a
The aerial stunts will begin at 2! foop be accused of any wrong doing o'clo(-ki in the afternoon. There wiU of any kbid and be identine<l by the al.so be exhibitions and demonstration.s i nyraber he might be wearing, thai in varioas hangars from 10 o'clock in ! number might apply to several troops.
Practically every Boy Scout troop in Nas.<!au County was given a new num¬ ber by the action of the Nassau County Boy Scout Council, at it.s meeting in Olen Cove Thursday night, when a resolution was adopted fixing the num bers of the troops in accordance with the data of their original registration, as recorded at National headauarters.
The purpose of this action is .several fold. For one thing it distinguishes a troop according to ils seniority. It means also that when a large number of boys are in camp or at another place there will be no mix-up by rea¬ son of the faet that there are Beveral troopa Of the same number in the gathering.
There is also a further added i*d-
and in Jhat case it would be hard to distinguish which body of scouts should be Investigated. This circumstance has already arlnen. and although It was found up Investigation that neither of the troops was guilty, It caused gome
the morning. •¦
The aerial program Includes a five- man parachute jump, formation flight, races, bomb-dropping, ten gate prizes, riden of ten minute.^ eairh, ambulanca plane exhibition, and other thrillers.
Some of the foremoat aviators of the confusion In getting at the facts, .serrice will parUclpate. I Ll»t ot New Nambent
. 4. In the table In the panel herewith,
are given the new numbers, the eld
numbers and the date of the original
records at
GOVERNOR TO CALL EXTRA
TERM OF COURT TO HANDLE registration acordlng DRY LAW VIOLATIONS °''*"*'^' headquarters
Albany, N. Y.. May 7.—Governor Miller announced deflnitely today he would call an extraordinary term of the Supreme Court, New York County,
In only one case haa a troop the ^ aame number as under the old arrange- ' ment, and that is Troop No. 1 of Hos- I lyn, which was the flmt troop in the j county to register and therefore regains
to aid in handling the mass of Dry Law - the numl>er 1.
violations.
Lower court eulendara are clogged : ui>.
The Governor sold he had not yei' delennlned on the date to«('tf(e. Special, Term nor the presiding Justice.
CRISIS IN MARINE STRIKE
EXPECTED ON MONDAY
It will be notk<ed tbat the table ¦hows two Hempstead troops were registered on the same day. The rec¬ ords show tbat they were recorded at the same hour and mlsute and tlie only way to distinguish tbe seniority was by tbe number of the registration certiflcate. New Troopa to Get Succeeding Nos.
When new troops are organised, they will be given the succeeding numbers,
.1 to i p.m.—Sports. Track Meet, In . ...
charge of Miss Helen Smith, I'hyslqal I Washington, May 7.—Negotiations for
Director, Bronx Y.W.C.A.. New York i the settlement of the marine strllce arc j and in case a troop disbands, the num- Clty. I BU.Hpended today,, with Secretary of La-i ber wUl remain Wank, unless a new
8 p.m.-^'oUege Nlght-In Clinton I bor Davis In Pitt'abtirth. j t^oop Is organized In the place with
Avenue School. Evelyn Kml.son, Say- \ The crisis In the controversy will be fifty per crnt of the old troop members, vttle, presiding; Rev, Ralph Sockman,! reacbed at ten o'clock Monday moruing,, j),^ R»e>etlng Tburaday night waa of New York City; motion p<cture»,*l.t^iheu tba repre»entati\-es of the marta* beld in tlje Methodist church at Glen Magtt. : worlMTs wtu give SecreUry Dtvla a Ov, .nj wj»* bu-gely attended. John
Totnorro'w's i»r*crai» wiU include: | Baal answer ap te whether tbey wlU • '^^ Aadsrswi. preeWent of the councU,
I0.»ft-..>i4»min« »wrvic». j DHetatee are ! accept tba 18 »er cent wmw re«uctien , preetded. Tbs eebnoUmen were wel- r«(iueste« t« attend cbtirrb with their 1 insisted apeo by AinU/al Icaaea. 1 ceoted by tbe aav. Frank a. Cowan,
hoateaaes. I Itepreoentattves of tijiei Marine engj- cbaii«i«o ot tbe dlatriet committee.
S p.m—Veapen^ at baptist Church, j neers are in Nsw York today oeafer i>inn«r waa served by tbe ladles of the ^Merrick road, Mildred flaylis. Hunting-1 ring with the m»n nrim m draMrty j^p^^^h League of the church. (CentbMiedl en M|^i a) juielr reply. (Oontlnwrt ob page I).
FOUR MANHASSET MEN
ESCAPE JAIL SENTENCE
Mineola, May 7.—Justice James C. Cropsey, in .Supreme Court today, di- rected^he release of Patrick White, Mich.lW Blakp, John Kehop and Wil¬ liam Hourican, all of Manha.s.<»et.
They were brought into court by At¬ torney Charles Wysong or a writ of habeas corpus, and the judge sustained Ihe writ.
.\ll four men had been sentenced to "not more than 90 days in the county jail," and Mr. Wysong asked for their release on the ground that the Jilstlce of thp peace had no right to Impose an indeterminate sentence in the county jail.
The prisoners were part of tho.se im¬ plicated in a fight in Manhas.set Hill Sunday night. The men are .said to have taken pact in a row that started In a Hungarian dance hall. They were sent fo Jill by Justice of thP Peace Kgbert l.,e'ClPU.sp.
THOMAS A. STODDART LAWYER, IS DEAD
S« of FmoJ^ Time Actar,!CETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Mlneoln, Muy 7.—Denouncing th failure of the Jury to agree as a "gross miscarriage of justice" and declaring thut (l^i-man Plant, former county de te< tlve, must stand trial again on May 16 .lusticp James C. Cropsey in Siipr<'me Court here yesterd.-iy sfternoon dis- mis.sed the jurors for the term with a. single exception. Plant is churged with criminally rei-elving stolen goods. The speclflc charge is ihal he pun ha.-<ed a Itiiick car, knowing il wus stolen.
The juror not dismissed was William .1. DriscoII, of OcPiui Hide, und the ehai-acterlzjition of the outcome trial by the Court was no less startling than was his denunciation of Drlscoi; whom .Justice Cropsey ordered to .ip- liear before hlni on .Monday morning next.
This was because DriscoII. a I-oiig
Island Kailroad Company detectivi- and
th«-^ liftli juror in the Plant' ease, had
larried a revolver into the Jury room
iiiid. had dL-tplayeil It while the delilitr-
ation was underway.
Mineola. May 7.—I'harles Dickinson,^ j^„ alarmed was one of the .lurors.
63 years old, wbo hns ju.st received his j i.ouis C. Allert, of Locust Valley, ihal
license to pilot an airplane, was nne of) he reported the matter to the court
.„ .»,„ .,1,, r,..,.uc.,u-<.r An Officers in attendance and they in turn llie [lassengers In the six-passenger .-xn- ....
^ told .Jiistlcp (^ropsev. The iatlcr lall.-d
saldo airplane, which left Ha.elhur.st' _^. j,,,.^, j,,,^ ,,.„„., ,...,„„;,i.,y „,.,,„,„^
Kield at 6.:tO o'clock this morning in the i „,„i ,ii.s.-irmed DriscoII, at the ssme tlnu
'wake of the apiial mail plane for Chi-j sharply admonishing hi eago. nickinson, who hns many friends among the aviators, because it is his
I custom lo "grub stake" them if they
j land in Chicago dead broke, Is an en-
j Ihusla.stic aviator himself.
i This is great sport, he told Edward
j Crilligan, proprietor of the Nas.sau Ho¬ tel, and advised him to go in for it.
j Ho talked at length lo (lilligan last
'night and this morning when the An-
I f.aldo was preparing to start. He re¬ flected his enthusiasm.
! Ualph C. Diggins, presiiient of the
j Ralph C. Diggins .\viation Company of
! (.'hicago. to whom the machine is con¬ signed, will pilot the niacliine part of the way. In the airplane with i>igglns and Dickin.son were Lloyd Berteaud, of Chicago, who will al.so pilot the plane, and Alfred Itrick of the Fox Film Com¬ pany.
Pilot .Mli.^on, of the mail plane, who recently established a new trans-contin¬ ental record, will be pathflnder. iAl Cleveland, Ohio, the Ansola will pick up Mi.ss Jessie Bradley, aviatrix, and take h«t lo Chicago. /
The An.saldo carried a letter of greet¬ ing from Mayor Hylan of New York to Mayor Thomp.son of Chicane.
The plane is capable of 118 miles an hour, and is designed to meet the re¬ quirements of business men who want to travel faster than the trains take tliem. It is so con.structed that the cabin will oarry six passengers. There is a room forward for two pilots. "It Is driven by a 12-cyllnder Fiat motor of
) SOO bor.se power.
Freepoit, May 7.—Thaddeus Cruai- mel of 45 Kennington avenue complain¬ ed to the poll<-e Thrusday that one James Bates was acting In a fHsorderly manner in front of hla house.
Bates was arrested on a charge of
Succumbs To Kidney Trouble j ^ DISORDERLY CASE
In Hempstead Home
Bemp.ttead, May 7.—Thomas A. Stod- dart, a lawyer with olBces at 2 Rector street. New York City, and residing at lis Greenwich street, this village, died at his home ye.stei-day, aged 57 years. He ha3 not been feeling well for the! <««"-derly conduct and disturbing the past three weeks, but was about most j l'«ice. When arraigned before Judge of the time. Death was due lo kiduey \ Johnson he pleaded guilty und was giv- trouble. i ^" ** suspended sentence.
Mr, atoddart had been a resident of ..^ „n<rTlR7~lt~KOMKRl'n I F this Tillage for the past eight years., S>^<»«« URi*^ ^^ -SOMhR^TI.LK Hp waa born in Rahway, N. J., and was : Somervllie, K. .1., May 7.—Flre de- the son of James H. Stodda/rt, one of jstroyed the magniflcent summer resl- the famous old-time actors. ! dence here early today of Mrs. George
Mr. Stoddart was a singer of .consid-j Anderson, In the Hillcrest section of erable note, and was for many years I the borough. The losii, due to the com- aololst ia St. Mary's Kpjscopal Church, j l>'*<e destruction of both house and con- New 'fork. He was a member of thei tents, was estimated a( 1100,000.
law firm of Barnes, Ualstead and Chll-1 . ¦4'
Ters. He Is survived by bis wife ,nd I AMERICA WINS FIRST POLO 0.%MB three children, James H., Mary [Ger-j Ix-ndon. May 7.--The American polo trude and Rose £lizat>etb Stoddart, and | team won today's matcJi at Ranclagh one sister, Mary C. Stoddart. all ofi 10 to 4. The Amerirans played a ^mpstead. \ nUxed team of Brltiah and Antcriran
The ft4neral will b« held at the late j pjJj-^,-g residence Monday moralnf at lO.SO, with { jiMuj. the Ber. Charles H. Snedeker, rector ot St. George's Bplscopal Church, oA- clating, aad interment will be in HaiEel- wood cemetery. Rah way, N^ J.
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Irving D. Tuni.son, of Ocean Side said that previous to this incident Dria (toll had called one juror vile names and ha(> used loud and abusive Inn- giinge. .'Mr. Tunison quotes Mr. Allen as saying, "This man is going crazv.' Revolver Displayed to Intimhlate Another , juror, who withholds his name from publii-ation, und wiin said that the jurors balloted lung hours standing 10 tn 2 for eoiivirtinii, said there was no doubt in bis mind Unit the ri-volver was displayed tn Intimi¬ date the otlu-r jurors and that il was nn tbe table before DriscoII all tin- lime he was talking.
"For Cod's sake put that thing away," this juror quob-s another as saying after the debate had been very lieuted.
Tlif jurors, says this one who st-em ed to feel that he spoke for many of tbem, felt that It was a shame that tliey could not return a unanimous ver¬ dict after the long hours lhey had been in trial and after the long time they had deliberated.
He said that it was impossllile to argup with the one obslrepcroiis mem¬ ber.
The jurors were: Waller K. Stephen¬ son, Hoo.s*r\-pl I; Charlei4 F. Kgan. Free port; Irving D. Tunison, Ocean Side; William R. Cochran. l..yjU>rook: William J. DrlscoU, Ocean SWe: Lonls C. Allen, IXH-usl Vallny; Averall .\I. .Marlow, Freeport; Frank It. Rider, Oyster Bay; John W. Walters, Syossett; Kredt-rlck C. Van Nostrand, KrefTiort; KIbert T. Hoagland, Kast Norwich, and C. Nelson llleks. liockville Centre.
It was when Ihe jury llnally re|>orted to the Court that DriscoII came in tor Ihe scathing denounet-mi-nt. from llie bench.
Justice Cropsey usked the haggard. tired and plainly worried Jurymen It they had rea-ched a verdict and their, foreman James Stephensim. of Koose velt, said they had tried many tlnn-: but had failed to agree.
Justice Cropsey tljim annoum-ed tbat after r-onsultallon with 't-ounsel for both sides lie had decided to relieve the Jurors from further cnnsidenillon of the case.
GrnsM Mis<-srrUge of Justice
"This Is a gross mlse-an-iage of Jus¬ tice." Muid the court, and he wit'nt oil to say Ihat probably none of th»'m except one, knew that one of Ihein had been under criminal charges him- K-lf at one time. This, the court sug¬ gested might or might not be a reason for the result.
He declared that it would do no harm to have the facta known and said that un investigation was already underway' In th** past record of one Juror under HUiipleion.
Ju-ttlce Cropsey then directed the Jurors to remain In their sfats while he ra$ed il'V>r«#nian Stepheimon Into close, confldential talk.
That Justice Cropsey had been direct Ing hlA remarks to Driscell wus plain. He then aMrrsssd him directly saylnit:
"Mr. Drlacoll, yeu iMri s revolver In Ihe Jury roam?
* "I bave a permit to carry It," replied I>riacon,
"L^t'nM have it sir," aaM the Pmirt.
"rnfortunately I left ii at home when I took out a wallot In which I carrh-d It." said DrlscoU.
"1; Is very iinrortunate for you," retorted Justice Cropsey.
DrlscoU then attempted to explain Ih.-it he is a delcctive sergeant for the Long Island Uailroad Company auit Ihat he had u badge, wliiih he showeil. and other credentials, to show that he was an oflieer.
"What ha« ihat to do with ll " ask.il the Court.
"l couldn't have ilic liadgc unless I could have the revolver." snid DriscoII. DriscoII (ilveH Reason He then explained the reason he carrieil the revolver was iH'cuuse he had agreed with his superior oftUer of the railroad that while he was Jlil-or In the day-time, during this term of court, he would cover his territ'iry as an offlcer iit night.
"You haven't done much night work sincp last .Monday, why didn't you give the revolver to some one nr leave It In your room'."' asked .lustice Cropsey.
"Why did you have It in the Jury room'.'" contlnuPd the Judge.
"I took It ont becaiisf 1 was sitting and it pressed against me, I w.inteit 111 rest myself." saiil Oiisci.ll.
•It lliat all you diti with it'.' Didn't yon open ii and take nin the. carl- ridges'.'" asked he Conrt.
Drisr-oU admitted that he done -*«• and said that lie blew Into It lo get the dust nut.
The 11 mi-n with me knew I meant no harm," he said.
'•(;od knows there w,i« no wrong In¬ tent," he said.
Me had given his badge into the liiinds of the conrt at .Iiidge Cro|ise\'y demand and the latter said:
"Vou bring your jiermit to eiirry that revolver here nn .\fonday morning und In tile meantime I'll keep this badge and if I have the power I'll re¬ voke it. / ,.
"We don't want iK-ople like yon around. We are going to take care of yon if we cun."
"The rest of you men are excused for the balance of the term. You re¬ turn .Monday, Mr. DrlscoU ahd I'll see what 1 shiill do about you tlum." Motion Fnr Retrial A.ssistani Distri't Attorney Charles R. Wood then mo\ed tlic court for a retrial of Plant on the Indictment ••hargUig him with criminally receiv¬ ing stolen goods and asked thai the case be tried again on Monday, May ifi. Peter Stephen H«'ck, of eoiinspl for the defense, in Ihe absence of George .Morton Levy who had lri«'d Ihe case foi' Plant, objected to the time set saying that .Mr. l.evy, knowing such motion u'oulil he made, did not think he could he ready on thai d/iy.
"Why can't you he ready'.'" usked Justice Cropsey. I -'We can't get our witnease* in time." I replied Mr. Beck.
".N'onwnsctl" said the Court, "you can't get witnesses until you dn get a date set. "I'll set ll for the IClb and It will be tried on that lUiy with or without Mr. I,pvy."
.Asked by f'ourt Clerk Daniel S*-alev Mboul tbe bail l>ond and wli<<lh(i It was continued' Jiistlce Crofisey »<Hid that It did not exist since the ilefeofhinl had been taken into euslo<ly when he was delivered Into coin t and added tb.-it Plurrt was remanded, meaning that he would have to go back to jail. Plant Rrle>i>«ed on Hall Attorney Beck ul oin-e moved for ball. Mr. Woo<l agreed find the Court flxed It at $10,000 which wus the flgii.e prior to trial. Oeorge D. Smith, ot iTempstead. " friend i),rtd assix iale ol Plant went on the ImiII liond and Plant was released.
.^slHtauT Attorney Kdwards. for DIs Iriil Attorney Charles U Weeks, gave out tbe following statement In relation to the Incident of the revolver and DriscoII.
"On hearing that WillUim J. Drlacoll had been displaying a r«rvolver in the jury room during the twenty hours the Jury was out and upon Judge Cropsey demanding that Dris<^-oll turn the re¬ volver over to the Court, which he did, Ihe District Attorney got in communi¬ cation with ttxr police department In tbe City of New York and found that DrlscoU had been disi&lMied from th« force for misconduct June 3, IISl and later he waa Indicted nn another charge, grand larceny in the mmcfrnd degree, which was dimmitpifd thre« (Canttnaed 09 page S)
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