A MIXED CARGO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 109, 8 May 1912, Page 8

A MIXED CARGO.

LINKS WITH FORGOTTEN CRIMES. Without ceremony, and on the order of the New York Police Commissioner, a curgo of guns, rifles, revolvers, and a strange assortment of death-dpaliiig instruments was lafat month thrown into the sea a few miles outside of New York harbour. Most of the weapons, which were valued at £3000, were collected as tho result of the Sullivan Law, passed about six month 3 ago, forbidding the carrying of concealed weapons ot any description, prohibiting a householder to keep ti revolver in his home, and forbidding the; sale of any weapon unless the seller is licensed. Other* were taken from tho police _ museum to make room for later exhibits. Whether crime in New York city has decreased or increased since the Sullivan, Law became effective it is hard as yet to t,ay, abhough there has been no difference so far as one can judge. The weapons consigned to the $ea were taken from people who had been arrested. Altogether there arere. twelve boxes and four packages containing 1500 revolvers of every make and calibre, 100 shot gum and rifles', and 350 sabres, black-jacks, fclurig-shots, knuckle-d listen?, dirks, sandbags, stiletto?, and knives. Every piece had a "label attached t° it> and these labels, in concise, snappy summaries, told trrfgic histories. _Ono long knife, with a rusted blade, which happened to fall ou the deck of the tug, recalled a forgotten btory of_ love and jealousy. Its label read : "This is the knife with which Morris Verlosky stabbed Rachael Seligman, creating a wound which extended from tho lower portion of the right ear to the margin of the mouth ; wound pronounced dangerous; stabbing took place- Nov. 28, 1869." Attached to a_ terrible-looking carvingknife was the inscription: "Knife with which Mrs. Anna Lohman, alias Madam© Restelle, committed suicide. She cut her throat ,with this lenif e while in a bath tub on April 1, 1878." The Police Commissioner believes that consignment to the sea is the only safe way of ridding the ' community of such undesirable possessions. The first sitting of the West Coast Native Reserves Commission (Dr. M 'Arthur, S.M., and Mr. W. Kerr, S.M.), will be held at Hawera on Friday next. "Messenger" writes rorreetiug a statement made recently to the effect that telegraph messenger boys could get "stickers." thus etiabling 'them to open telegrams and rj-seal them. "That ie I not true." he states. "We are not allowed to have or take any seals." The body of the late Mr. H. S. Wardell will ba taken to Masterton this afternoon, and will be interred in the cemetery outside that town at 2 p.m. tomorrow. _ The City Council notifies in our advertising columns that Raroa-rokd, befcwocn Hafold-Btreet and Navua-creecent, will bo closed lor ■ two or three weeks from tunun.orf*