The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 26,
1895.
WAS PARKER
ROBBED?
HOW HE
EXPLAINS THE LOSS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Warrant
for His Arrest—The Money Taken From a Friend to Invest in Real Estate—They Both Live in Cortland.
(From
the Syracuse Courier, July 30.)
A peculiar case was developed in Police
court yesterday, when a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of J. K. Parker of
Cortland, charging him with grand larceny in obtaining $300 from D. J.
Chadwick, also of Cortland.
Chadwick claims that Parker robbed him. Parker claims that after
obtaining the money to invest with an equal amount of his own, he was robbed of
the whole $600.
Mr. Chadwick came here yesterday,
accompanied by T. E. Courtney, a prominent Cortland attorney, and furnished the
information upon which the warrant was issued. He tells a story of what he
claims to be the deceit and extortion practiced upon him by a supposed friend.
The detail of the affair which leads up to the arrest of Parker is not without
its romantic and sensational features. The story is as follows:
D. J. Chadwick is a hard working,
industrious barber, whose place of business is on Main street, Cortland. Nearly
all his life he has lived in the prosperous village in southern New York where
he has married and reared a family.
In the same village for some years past has
lived J. K. Parker, also a barber, but who had never been in business with Mr.
Chadwick. Parker is about 50 years of age and a Grand Army man.
In the course of their daily walks the two
men frequently met and oftentimes, it is claimed, the topic of investments and
a speedy way of making money was introduced by Parker. He told Chadwick how
easily money could be made out of real estate, Chadwick says, and that in Syracuse
there was an excellent opportunity for ready investors. He himself knew of an
excellent chance to make a large sum of money.
Parker said that about $600 was necessary to
carry through the deal. He himself had saved $296 and if Chadwick could manage
to gather together the necessary amount he had no doubt but that they could
come to terms.
Mr. Chadwick was impressed, he says, never
for a moment doubting the sincerity of Parker, but he really did not have the
money. The only resource was a life insurance policy and this he at last
decided to sell, and so obtained the necessary funds.
On July 10, the two men came to Syracuse,
registering at the Globe hotel, and both were assigned to room 123.
During the evening Parker told Chadwick that
next morning he would start out to consummate the deal, and after breakfast
Chadwick gave him $300 in currency. Before leaving Parker told his friend to be
sure and await his return, even if it were two or three days. Chadwick
promised.
The Thursday passed and that night Parker
did not return, nor the next day or night did he put in an appearance, Chadwick
says. When Saturday, the 13th had come and no signs of Parker, Mr. Chadwick
became alarmed.
He did not at that time think of the money,
but for Parker's safety, and communicated his fears to Proprietor Munger. At
last he decided to take the 10:10 train for home, and started for the depot.
He had been gone but a few moments when
Parker entered the hotel and inquired for Chadwick. A messenger was sent to the
depot and managed to find Mr. Chadwick.
That night the two men did not meet, but in
the morning they did. Parker told a story of drugs and robbers.
After leaving the Globe that morning,
carrying the $600 in his pocket, he went to a hotel near the Central depot.
There he met some men and they started in to drink.
The day wore away and suddenly he lost
consciousness. The next he knew was when he awoke in a lumber yard on the North
side of the canal. His pockets had been rifled, the money had been taken. That
was his story.
Who had worked him he did not know. He asked
Chadwick to take no action at present, although he was not to blame in the
matter, he would make good the loss to Chadwick. With this understanding the
two men returned to Cortland.
Since
that time Parker, it is said, has made no offer to settle, and Chadwick finally
consulted Attorney Courtney with the result that yesterday morning the two came
to this city and the warrant for Parker's arrest on the charge of grand larceny
was sworn out. They returned to Cortland at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
FREAKS
OF LIGHTNING.
Several
Buildings Struck. But No Very Serious Damage Done.
At about 4:30 o'clock last Saturday
afternoon one of the most severe thunder storms that has occurred in many years
passed over this section and notwithstanding lightning struck in many places
very little damage resulted. We note the following:
A bolt struck one of the ventilators on the
roof of the rink on the east side of Main-st.
and splintered up some of the boards. Mr. James R. Schermerhorn was in the
building and felt the shock slightly.
A bolt struck each of the two chimneys on
the Owego House on Owego-st., demolishing them and smashing the kitchen stove.
A wind mill standing near Mr. John S. Park's
house on South hill was quite badly broken.
A chimney on Riley Champlain's house on
Union-st. was toppled over and the lawn shows that lightning had been toying
with it.
The dwelling house on Timothy Rose's farm on
Salisbury hill road was struck and some of the siding torn off.
John Murphy's house at 4 Taylor-st. was
struck. The lightning ran down the chimney, tore off the plaster and set fire
to the woodwork in the kitchen. A few pails of water put it out.
A pile of pig iron near the Howe Ventilating
Stove works was struck twice and scattered in many directions.
Mrs. E. B. Park of Syracuse suffered a shock
while sitting by a window in Mrs. E. D. Clark's residence at 31 Clayton-ave.,
but recovered from its effects in a few hours.
The chimney was knocked off the house of
James McAuliffe, 15 Hubbard-st.
The lightning fuse of the fire alarm system
at Firemen's hall was burned out and has been replaced by a new one.
A bolt struck a large elm tree in the rear
of the barn of Franklyn Jones at 58 Hubbard-st, and entering the building,
killed his horse which had just been turned into a box stall.
The residence of H. J. Lewis, 10 Harrison-st.
was struck on the ridge board and the roof took fire on the under side. Mr. Lewis
family were calling next door and did not know that their house had been struck.
Martin Crippen saw the bolt strike and noticed the fire afterwards. He called some
neighbors to his aid and breaking into the building put out the fire.
The house, No. 94 Maple-ave., occupied on
the first floor by Mr. and Mrs. H. L. de Clercq was struck. John Hare occupies a
room on the second floor and was the only person in the building when a ball of
fire seemed to burst in the room within a few feet of him doing no particular damage.
The plastering was torn off three rooms and a wardrobe belonging to Daniel
Kratzer, a boarder, was upset and one side of a picture frame was burned off.
One of the trays in the resistance box behind
the switch board at the Traction Co.'s power house was burned out and the cars
were prevented from running for about two hours until repairs were made.
On Sunday night a large hay barn on the
farm of Lewis Underwood in the town of Freetown was struck and seventy-five
tons of hay, together with the barn was burned. The cows, twenty-two in number,
were being milked at the time and they, with all the other personal property, were
taken from the barn. The barn cost $1,000 and there was an insurance of $700 on
the building but nothing on the contents. The house and horse barn just across
the way were saved by hard work.
The Erie
& Central N. Y.
Railroad.
The grading on this road from this place to
McGrawville has been substantially completed and the road bed is ready for the
ties and iron. The Groton Bridge Co. promise to deliver the bridge for the
Tioughnioga river August 15. A shipment of steel rails from Bethlehem has been
promised by Aug. 1 soon after which track laying will commence. Engineer Jones
has been busy for the past three weeks in making plans for the mason work and
bridges to be used on the line where it crosses small streams east of the
Tioughnioga river, and we understand that contracts for all this work has been
let. The work on this road seems to be progressing slowly but steadily and we
expect to see things moving quite rapidly on the line in a very few weeks at
most.
Enterprising
But Unreliable.
Last Friday the Cortland Daily Standard, published
an account of a banquet which it claimed took place the night before.
This would have been well enough were if not for the following facts:
Nearly all the gentlemen named as being
present were conspicuous by their absence.
The same may be said of the menu and the
banquet. There was no banquet and there were no speeches.
The Saturday Review and other papers
also seem to have been fooled into giving an account of the affair which did
not take place. Too much enterprise at the expense of reliability is not to be
desired.
Hop
Growers' Picnic.
The annual picnic of the hop growers of
central New York will be held at Sylvan Beach on Saturday, July 27, 1895. The
E. C. & N. will sell round trip tickets for $1.25. Trains leave
Cortland at 7:20 and 9:48 A. M., returning leaves the beach at 12:10 and 6:05
P. M.
New
Medical College.
NEW YORK, July 23.—Contracts have just been
signed for the erection of a new Medical College building for Syracuse
University. The building will have a frontage of sixty feet on Orange street,
and a depth of 100 feet; will be six stories high, with a basement. The total
floor area will be 20,000 square feet. The new building is to cost about
$100,000.
State
School Laws.
The recent Legislature passed many important
laws bearing on the educational system of the State, among which the State
superintendent calls attention to the following:
Providing for the withholding of half of the
public moneys from any city or district which willfully omits or refuses to
enforce the provisions of the law providing for the study of narcotics until
they are complied with.
Providing for the purchase of United States
flags, which shall be displayed on school buildings during school hours.
Providing additional facilities for free
instruction in natural history, geography and kindred subjects by means of
pictorial representation.
Providing for biennial school census in cities
and towns exceeding 10,000 population.
Providing pensions, to be included in the
tax levy, for teachers who have taught continuously in the public schools for twenty-five
years.
Of
Interest to School Teachers.
The State Superintendent of Public
Instructions is to establish a State school library for the use and benefit of
the teachers of the State. Any teacher or person intending to teach known at
the department or recommended by superintendents or commissioners may make
application for a book named on the list, but must agree to return such book to
the department, postage paid, at the end of one month. Blanks will be furnished
by the state superintendent for such applications, and the book will be forwarded,
postage paid, to the address named. At the end of the month the teacher may
return the book, or purchase it by remitting its price to the department. By
special arrangements the price will be very near wholesale rates, and will be
plainly marked on the second page of the cover with other regulations. It is
expected that the first list of books will be ready for distribution about
August 1, 1895.
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| Levi Morton. |
PAGE
FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Russell R. Stuart of Syracuse is a candidate
for the office of State Engineer and Surveyor on the Democratic ticket.
Ex-President Harrison is fishing in the Adirondacks.
He refuses to talk politics or to give his views on the silver question. No one
seems to know whether he is for free coinage or not.
Senator Raines of Canandaigua is having a
hard fight for the renomination in his district and the opposition to him seems
to be very strong. He would be a very good man to retire from public life.
Gov. Morton is 72 years old and Senator John
Sherman says a man of that age never could stand the worry attendant upon the
discharge of the duties of the office of President of the United States, but
the governor is anxious for a trial. He will undoubtedly have the delegates
from this state.
The sudden rises and falls in the price of
wheat do not effect in the least the price of silver. Nor does the price of silver
have the least effect on the price of wheat. One of the main arguments of the
Silverites is completely overthrown by the fact that these two commodities of
wheat and silver have little or no market relations with each other.—Kingston
Argus.
A law passed by a Republican legislature and
signed by a Republican governor, legalizes the shaving of a wealthy New Yorker,
and the wealthy sojourner at Saratoga, on Sunday, while the shaving of the poor,
honest laborer, in any other part of the state on the same day is made a crime.
What is this but legislation in the interest of a favored few? Here is an act
for which the Republicans cannot shirk the responsibility.—Moravia
Register.
The republican politicians are
always busy when there is an office in sight. Last fall they carried the election
in this state with the aid of Democrats and Independents who were dissatisfied
with Tammany and stood ready to welcome anything that would be a change. As
soon as the Republicans got into power they took an inventory of all the
offices to be filled. They found in some cases that the terms of the incumbents
did not expire for two or three years and there was no easy way to get rid of
them, but they found a way. They simply legislated them out of office and
legislated their friends in. Show them how to accomplish their purposes and they
will not stick for the right or wrong of the thing. Might makes right with them.
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| Grover Cleveland. |
The successor of Grover
Cleveland will be a Democrat. The Democratic party will have demonstrated
before 1896 that It deserves to win, and the necessities of the Republic will
demand the retention of the Democratic party in control.
The Democratic policy in
regard to the tariff has surprised the country by its success. Even some
Democrats were weak-kneed during the dark months before the McKinley law was
repealed, as to the wisdom of the Democratic policy of tariff reduction. But
under a reduced tariff the country has recovered from a terrible panic so
quickly that the country is surprised. The prestige of success is with the
Democratic party. In spite of the most vicious misrepresentation the wisdom of
the Democratic policy is demonstrated. Increased wages and busy factories are
the evidences everywhere. Those who doubted once, doubt no more. The Democratic
party must be maintained in power to prevent a return of McKinleyism. The good times
must not be interrupted by tariff tinkering.
The Democratic party has
earned the confidence of the people on the tariff. It will command the
confidence of the people on the currency question. The confidence will be given
because the Democrats did not betray the people on the tariff, and because the
Democratic position on the currency will be such as to command the support of
the reasoning and intelligent men.
The Kentucky Convention shows
that the free silver delusion is not sweeping through the Democratic South.
Kentucky was alleged to be a free silver hot bed, but the popular Senator
Blackburn discovered that he had been catering a myth. There is much reason to
believe that the free silver sentiment that some of the Democratic leaders have
been quaking at is just as mythical as the sentiment in Kentucky. It will be
dissipated before 1896 in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Georgia, the States
where the danger is the greatest.
The Democracy will have the
prestige of subduing the free silver lunacy. The victims will be Democrats who
go wrong. Blackburn is the first. There is no movement in the Republican party
to discipline those who go wrong. The silver men are masters of the situation.
The pure, honest Democracy
that Grover Cleveland exemplifies is that which rests in the hearts of the
Democratic people. The Democracy of Cleveland is the Democracy that the people
understand and approve. In Kentucky the people rose up and by an overwhelming
vote affirmed their confidence in the patriotism and Democracy of the
President. This was a great surprise for those who had an idea that the short
cut to popularity was to abuse the President.
While the shallow minds
throughout the country are abusing the President and the Democratic party for
the disasters and calamities produced by Republican laws, and which were felt
most severely during the first two years of the Democratic Administration, the
thinking, intelligent men of this country knew that the responsibility was upon
the preceding administration and the 51st Congress. Now when the Democratic policies
are in operation, the clamor of the partisan is stopped, and the verdict of the
people is one of confidence in the President and in the Democracy he
represents.
The logic of the situation
will demand a Democratic victory in 1896. All signs point to it now. The people
will be overwhelmingly for it next year.—Utica Observer.
HERE AND THERE.
The Homer Salvationists [Salvation Army] have
invaded Little York.
Burgess, the clothier, has a
new advertisement on the last page.
There were 329 tickets sold
last Saturday at the E. C. & N. station for the fine wire drawers excursion
to Ithaca.
The Emerald Hose Company will
hold a fair in September. The rink on South Main-st has been leased for the purpose.
The employes [sic] in the shop
of the Cortland Forging Co. have organized a base ball club and will soon be
ready to accept challenges.
Charles Amy, a brakeman, had
three fingers on his left hand badly crushed while coupling cars at the D. L.
& W. station in this village last Tuesday morning. Dr. White dressed the
injury.
The building formerly used as
a saw mill by Gage, Hitchcock & Co. located just west of the railway
station in Homer was burned to the ground at about 10:30 o'clock last Saturday
night. It was not used for anything and was not insured. The fire is believed
to have been of incendiary origin.
In the notice of the death of
Dr. Nelson published in the DEMOCRAT last week, we inadvertently omitted to
mention the fact that Dr. Van Hoesen of Truxton was in constant attendance at
the bedside of Dr. Nelson and that he did everything that could be done by
anyone for his patient. Dr. Higgins of this place was called in counsel.
Mr. James Devine and C. B.
Hitchcock, receivers of the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co., have filed their bond
for $100,000 in the county clerk's office. The American Surety Co. furnished the
bond. Judge Forbes granted an order allowing the receivers to spend $5,000 in
completing the unfinished work on hand and gives them three months in which to
do it.
Working Wonderful Faith Cures.
ALLEGANY, July 24. Nine Mile,
a small hamlet in this township, is in a fever of excitement over the wonderful
exhibitions of healing made by the so-called faith doctor, the Rev. E. L.
Raymond of Mount Jewett. Since his arrival the farmers have been interested in
nothing so trivial as the common pursuits in life, but have gathered in crowds
to view his apparent miracles. The lame have walked, and the deaf have heard,
and all classes have had the gospel preached unto them. Minnie Allen, the
daughter of a well-known lumber man, and Marshall Wilder are said to have been
marvelously cured of formidable diseases. Many are leaving beds of sickness at
the preachers command.
The most skeptical look on in
wonder, do not believe, but hesitate to explain what they see.
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