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| Oliver Curtis Perry. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday,
April 16, 1895.
ON
PERRY'S TRAIL.
Capture of Convict Davis Yesterday Led to
Valuable Clues.
POUGHKEEPSIE,
N. Y., April 16.—The capture of Convict Frank Davis at Hughsonville brought out
information showing that Perry is in all probability still in the locality of
the asylum. Before Davis was caught he was seen in the company of a strange man
whose appearance indicates that he was Perry.
Superintendent
Allison has all of his available force on this trail, and they, with a large
number of Wappingers Falls' and Hughsonville people, are scouring the country in
all directions round about for the fugitive.
The report
that Perry had been seen to pass through Schenectady on Sunday was exploded by
Attendant James Coyle, who captured O'Donnell and McGuire on Sunday, and whom
Dr. Allison sent to Schenectady to follow the report.
Coyle
wired the superintendent that he had traced every clue, but found that the stories
have been greatly exaggerated, and Perry, he was sure, had not gone that way.
He was directed
to return to Poughkeepsie and work the country south of Hughsonville and
Wappingers Falls.
As soon
as Dr. Allison learned that another man had been seen with Davis he was
impressed with the belief that it was Perry and at once devoted all of his
efforts in the direction of Hughsonville.
The
police of the surrounding towns were given the important clue, and Dr. Allison
says he will not be surprised if Perry is captured before many hours.
PERRY CAPTURED
BY THE
POLICE AT WEEHAUKEN THIS MORNING.
Very
Quickly Confessed His Identity—Was Also Recognized by a New York Detective.
HOBOKEN, N. J., April 16.—A man was arrested
at Weehauken this morning who admitted than he was the fugitive Perry from
Matteawan asylum. He confessed to the chief of police after having been locked
up in a cell for about five minutes. The man has also been identified as Perry
by a detective from the New York police headquarters.
President
[Cleveland] Reviews a Colored Parade.
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Notwithstanding that
today is a cabinet meeting day, the president found time to review the Emancipation
day parade. This was in compliance with the request of a delegation of colored
men who called on the president yesterday afternoon. The parade, which was an imposing
one, was reviewed by the president and his official family from the north
portico of the White House.
REV.
WILLIAM KINCAID.
Formerly
Pastor of the Baptist Church in
Cortland.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 16—Rev. Mr.
Kincaid, pastor of the Andrew Presbyterian
church of this city, following in the steps of Dr. Briggs, is preaching,
instead of original sin, evolution and other heretical doctrines. When Dr.
Brings visited Minneapolis last year Mr. Kincaid made much of him, and was then
censured by his brother ministers. Andrew Church is torn by dissensions over a
series of lectures which Mr. Kincaid is giving on doctrinal subjects. The
presbytery, it is said, will probably try Mr. Kincaid for heresy.
DEPARTMENT
OF GOOD GOVERNMENT.
EDITED BY THE GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB OF CORTLAND, N. Y.
The spirit of municipal reform is abroad.
"Good Government" is rapidly becoming the watchword of the
people. A vicious element exists in every community. That element
has been permitted to exert an immense power. It has corrupted
politics, morals and business life to a fearful extent. It has put in
jeopardy every interest of almost every city and village in the land.
"Boodle," bossism, gambling, fraud, extortion and the saloon
power have widely debauched public sentiment and imperil the moral
and material welfare of society. The law-abiding, order-loving
classes are now awakening to this state of affairs. The people are
demanding that local government shall be honestly, honorably, and
wisely administered, that crime and vice shall be driven to the wall and
that all of the laws, state and municipal, shall be thoroughly
administered.
If the condition of the village of Cortland
is not, in all respects, deplorably bad, yet in some things our situation is
simply outrageous, and these things the people will no longer tolerate.
THE SALOON.
The saloon is the chief corrupter of public
and private life in every community where it exists. It is the running sore of
morals and politics in this community. That it should exist in defiance of law
and in spite of the will of the people as expressed in their votes at four
successive elections, is simply amazing. While the Good Government club does
not propose to confine its work of reform and progress to the enforcement of
the laws against the saloon, it does propose that this defiance of law shall
cease.
BE PATIENT.
The work moves steadily on. As the firm hand
of the new government has closed down, four saloons have done the wise thing of
shutting up. Evidence is rapidly accumulating against others and if they do not
close of their own accord, careful, determined prosecutions will, in due time,
be instituted. The law is by no means ideal in its provisions, and enforcement
is not an easy thing, but the saloon is an outlaw and we believe, with the
pledged and able village administration, the loud-voiced demand of the people,
the counsel of able attorneys and the strong support of the very best citizens,
illegal liquor selling in this village must cease.
TESTIMONY.
We have no controversy with drinking men.
There is no law against a man drinking anything he may choose. There is no law
against his buying his drink wherever it is kept for sale. Indeed, among those
who are determined that the law shall be enforced against the saloon there are
many who take a glass of something whenever they wish. But there are two or
three things which every man who buys his liquor in this place should remember:
first, he is liable to be called as a witness, second, if he is called it will
generally be because he was seen to drink by reputable witnesses who are ready
to testify to all the circumstances under which the drink was taken; third, as,
in no legal sense can his testimony incriminate him, he will be compelled to
testify, and, fourth, when a man swears falsely he runs the risk of being
called to answer to the charge of perjury. If occasion requires, such a charge
will surely be made.
THREE PROCESSES.
First indictment before the grand jury and
trial in the county court. This is a slow process. Months intervene between
sessions of the court. The interest which one man, the district attorney, takes
in securing indictments and his skill in presenting the cases are of the utmost
importance. It is an important consideration that in this process the law
provides for the expense of prosecution. Hereafter it is the purpose of the
Good Government club to have well-prepared cases presented to the grand jury at
each session till there are no violations of the law.
Second, criminal prosecution in the police
court. In this case the expense of the prosecution will be met by private citizens.
Third, Civil process for the violation of
the village ordinance. The cost of this prosecution is provided for by the village,
and the fine comes into the village treasury.
The village ordinance went into effect last
Saturday, April 13, and cases for its violation will soon be before the court.
SERVING AS JURORS.
The aversion of good men to serving as
jurors, especially in cases of the people against criminals, is exceedingly
unfortunate. The friends of the violators of law are always present and anxious
to serve in the jury box, but alas! That so many who would be just and true as
jurors so constantly find a pretext for being excused. Indeed it is one of the
discouraging things in trying to promote good government that many other wise
good men will declare that they have opinions in the case and conveniently
express a fear that they could not give a verdict according to the evidence. It
is only manly and true for a man to say that he can and will give a true
verdict when the evidence is before him and according to the evidence. There is
not a man in this community worthy the name of a man, who cannot, if he will,
give a true answer as guided by the testimony. It is simply weakness and
cowardice for a drawn juror to plead previous opinion.
THE LIMITATION OF MEMBERSHIP.
The Good Government club deeply regret that
its membership must be limited as a measure of caution. According to its rule
of limitation, its membership cannot exceed fifty. We believe that the original
intention could have been realized and a thousand of our better citizens could
have been gathered into the organization, but since a part of its mission and
work will be to enforce law against all law-breakers, it was feared that
membership in the law enforcing club
would be urged as a disqualification for service as jurors and thus the list of
good citizens eligible to the jury box might be limited.
This body of fifty men "with malice toward
none and with charity for all," expecting the moral support of every good
man in the community, "holding back nothing, compromising nothing, fearing
nothing," are determined that law shall no longer be flagrantly violated
and the vote of the people be despised by the more vicious and dangerous
element of our community.
CORTLAND
COUNTY NEWS.
Things Seen
and Heard in Villages and Hamlets About Us, and Items From All Over the County.
McLean.
MCLEAN, April 15.—Mr. Charles Gillett of
Elmira was in town Friday.
Miss Hattie Powers is teaching in the school
house and Miss Emma Lamott in the Malloryville district.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Mason have broken up
housekeeping and are boarding at the Elm Tree House.
Cal Howland returned from New York Friday
much improved in health.
Mrs. Hoxie Shaw and son have returned to
their home in Auburn after spending the winter with relatives in this place.
Jay Mason is expecting a carload of salt
this week which he will sell at $4 per ton.
The churches were all nicely decorated with
flowers Easter.
Harford
Mills.
HARFORD MILLS, April 16.—The following lines
were written upon the death of the infant son of Rev. and Mrs. F. B. Williams,
who died April 5, at Harford Mills:
A lily without fleck or stain,
Blossom of most exquisite pain,
On mamma's breast a moment lain.
A voiceless pure unfinished prayer
Throbbing upon the viewless air,
A minor chord of music rare.
A breath from out a rose's soul,
A pulsing secret all untold,
A jeweled link of burnished gold.
A dewdrop in a challace white
Caressed by perfumes of the night
Evanishing with morning light.
A folded bud of pearly white
Shall open in the tender light
Of gardens kept by angels bright.
Penelope.
PENELOPE, April 14.—Among the sick are Mrs.
G. W. Varnes, Mrs. Minnie Johnson and Mrs. G. W. Stevens.
Quite a number of the farmers are about to
send their milk to the Page separator which will begin operation at the farm of
DeVern Arnold, April 20. We wish
them much success.
Mrs. Annis Harvey visited her daughter, Mrs.
Henry Taft of Triangle recently.
Gerdon Clough and wife visited friends at
Willet recently.
Merton Hibbard has began his summer's work
for Henny Holtmark.
Mrs. S. A.
May of Whitney Point was the pleasant guest of C. Pierce's people recently.
S.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
The boys are one and all, on the lookout for
Oliver Curtis Perry. Every stranger coming into town is instantly sized up and
thoroughly discussed. The boys are not the only ones who are looking for this
daring highwayman for there are rumors afloat of certain good housewives who
are afraid to go into their own cellars for fear of being grabbed by the famous
robber.
Thos. Knobel's barber shop again appears in
fresh paper and paint to invite customers to recline in the "easy
chairs" within. This is the third local tonsorial establishment to fall
into line in this regard and it is not behind the others in the excellency of
its decoration.
Oscar Babcock will soon drive a brand new
milk wagon which arrived from the manufacturers in Erieville this morning. The
old one was smashed in a collision with a tree on James-st. one morning last week.
William Davis, who has been employed at H.
E. Hannum's grocery for several weeks past, concluded his service there on Saturday
evening.
The wheels are again turning at the shirt
factory of Thurlow Blackman. About a fortnight ago the motor became useless and
yesterday the repaired parts arrived from the factory and work was resumed this
morning. Mr. Blackman is behind in his orders in consequence of the delay and
the force will be kept very busy for several weeks manufacturing the now
popular grade of shirts.
BREVITIES.
—A tramp secured lodging in the cooler last
night.
—The choral society will meet in the Y. M.
C. A. rooms at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
—The Cortland County Druggists' association
is holding a regular meeting at the Cortland House this afternoon.
—There will be meetings tonight of the Y. P.
C. U. and the Chapin club at the Universalist church.
—A special meeting of the board of managers
of the hospital will be held at the hospital Wednesday, April 17 at 3 P. M,
—D. Haskin has commenced to paint for George
H. Ames, the shoe dealer, a large sign, which will cover the north wall of the
block which he occupies.
—One particularly fine feature of the Easter
music at the Congregational church was the soprano solo by Miss Nettie Stout
with cornet obligato by her father, Mr. A. J. Stout.
—To-morrow evening will be ladies' night at
the Tioughnioga club. Cards will be the chief entertainment. Ladies' night has
been suspended during Lent, and now it is hoped that there will be a large
attendance of members and their lady friends.
—The Cortland Athletic association will
entertain a few invited friends at a phonographic concert next Friday evening.
Warm maple sugar will be served and besides the phonograph a fine program of
vocal and instrumental music has been arranged.
VILLAGE
TRUSTEES.
All Slot
Machines Must be Removed Immediately.
Superintendent R. E. Dunston and Attorney H.
L. Bronson came before the board of trustees at their regular meeting last
evening in behalf of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. and requested the
privilege of making a new contract for furnishing electric lights from twilight
to daylight instead of as at present until midnight in part of the month only.
They also requested the board to fix the panel sum to be given by such company
to the village at $5,000.
L. D. Lester came before the board and
requested the extension of the water mains down Tompkins-st., and presented a
petition which was read and placed on file.
On motion, Trustee Warfield was chosen a
committee of one to secure necessary repairs at the gravel bank house.
On motion of Trustee Webb, it was resolved
that the present committee appointed to purchase a new road machine be
continued and that they write the agents of the different machines to submit to
the competitive test at their expense.
On motion of Trustee Webb, seconded by
Trustee Warfield and declared carried, it was resolved that the president be a
committee of one to consult with Attorney Palmer, as to the giving of a bond to
the village pursuant to the requirements of the charter.
On motion, the street commissioner was
directed to properly repair and restore the crosswalk across Port Watson-st. at
East-ave.
On motion, Trustee Warfield was directed to
look up the advisability of using the barn occupied by the corporation.
On motion duly seconded and carried, Mr.
Hatch was appointed a committee to notify the street commissioner and
superintendent of the fire alarm system not to unnecessarily mutilate trees
while stringing wires or at work upon the streets.
The following walks were ordered repaired: Roswell
S. Randall, east side, Prospect-st.
R. M. Hillsinger, south side, North Main-st.
It was decided to serve a notice on those
who have slot machines upon their premises that they are prohibited by law and
must be discontinued and the same removed from any building, room, shed, booth,
tent or place in the village of Cortland.
The meeting was adjourned till April 29.
[A warm welcome to CC blog readers Liz Wavle-Brown and James Michael—CC editor.]
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