1870-02-10-Elmira Daily Advertiser-New York City
New York City
- Elmira Daily Advertiser, 10 February 1870, pg 1, column 7
Mayor Hall Wants Better Jurors—Mormon Converts—Another Mysterious Disappearance—Arrest of Ex-Postmaster Roberts—The Erie Railway Books Closed Against the Englih Shareholders.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Mayor Hall has memoralized the Legislature for the passage of a law which by, refusing to accept excuses, shall compel the best citizens to serve on juries.
John and James Laughlan were convicted of arson in Jersey City to-day for having fired their liquor store with the intention of procuring the insurance.
The Mormons are said to have made a number of converts on Long Island, scattered through a dozen towns, the majority of whom are girls, from 18 to 25 years of age. They will be sent to Utah early in the spring.
Capt. John H. Arthur, of Blue Point, L. I., doing business in New York City, has mysteriously disappeared. Foul play is suspected.
Gen. Roberts, post master of Brooklyn in 1867 and 1868, was arrested to-day on the charge of embezzling from the money order fund about $800. The discrepency in his account was discovered before Roberts was removed from office, but under instructions at the time from Washington he was not prosecuted. To-day orders were received from Washington to prosecute him.
The books of the Erie Company were opened on Saturday last in this city and closed again suddenly on Monday. This proceeding has excited some talk in the street, and is characterized as an effort to head off the English shareholders, who some time ago voted to register their shares in the names of Robert Amedews Heath and Henry Rappyeel. It is probable that the representatives of the foreign shareholders will be able to devise a plan whereby they may have a voice in the management of the Erie Road.
