Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1894, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE. War Again Opened in the Coke Region. THE SITUATION BECOMES CRITICAL Workmen Driven Away by the Strikers. SHERIFF'S FORCE OVERAWED UNIONTOWN, Pa, April 11—War has vegun again in the coke region, and the situation today is most critical. Rioting ,@nd raiding have been the program from ‘early morning, and fierce battles have been ‘averted only by concessions on the part of *thie companies. “OPhe first indication of trouble was in the form of an armed mob of 400 strikers, which assembled at 7:30 today at the Youngstown works of the H. C. Frick Com- Pany, near here. About sixty coke draw- ers were in the pit when, on a flag-given | signal, strikers swooped down upon the plant from every direction. The workers fled for shelter to the company’s store, which was guarded by only six employes. | ‘The 400 Huns in the mob demanded that | workmen be given up. This was refused | ‘at first, but after several attacks the work- men were given up. They were treated to| all sorts of insults, and some of them were beaten. Sheriff Wilhelm was notified at once, and started for the scene of the trouble. The/ rioters had left for the Leisenring works, | taking the Youngstown workers with them. | The sheriff gave chase with twenty depu-| ties, overtook the mob and ordered them to | disperse. The leader of the rioters answer-| ed that they were on the public highway | and they had equal rights with the sheriff. | A deputy took charge of one of the men, | when the strikers surrounded the posse and forced the authorities to give up the man. ‘The sheriff's force then fell back and the strikers continued the march toward Leis- erring. Twenty more deputies have left here to join Sheriff ‘Vilhelm. Trouble is_ inevitable, as the strikers are all armed. j At the Youngstown plant it is said an at-| tempt was made to shut off the air from the mine, which would have resulted in suffocation and death for the workers. | There were thirty-three delegates at the cokers’ convention at Scottdale yesterday, | said to represent the whole region.and they by vote decided to continue the strike. Be- fore the convention assembled it was hint-| ed that the majority of the delegates want- ed the strike declared off, or at least com-| promise on the Frick scale. The failure to! end the strike in this way is now blamed | on the delegates, who are not employed at any of the plants, and who are strongly in favor of continuing the strik.. | Resolutions were passed indorsing the Seale of prices preser.ted by the scale com- mittee, viz: 9 cents per 100 bushels for) mining and all their labor in proportion, warning all the people against exaggerat-| reports of newspapers and to cor the strike until the demands are gained. | Michael Barrett was elected president for the district. He is an old leader 1 served @ year in the workhouse for complicity in the strike of 1891, when seven strikers were killed at Morewood. It was rumored | last night that a warrant had been issued for Barrett's arrest as an accessory to the Mot and killing last week. — SHOT THE WIDOW’S SUITOR. He Had Been in the Barn Cutting the Horses’ Tails. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 11.—The Com- mercial Gazette Bellaire special says great | €xeitement prevails at Cameron, Monroe | county, Ohio, over a fatal shooting affair. Berhart Martin fatally wounded John Bo-| Jen. Martin lives with his widowed mother-in-| law, Mrs. Barbera Mellot. Bolen was in- fatuated with the widow, but was cast off. | Bolen continued to annoy her at night. | Martin heard a noise in the barn, and ing his gun,went to investigate. When near the barn he saw a man leaving the buiid- | ing and called upon him to make himself | known.. Upon refusal, Martin fired and the | man, who proved to be Bolen, dropped with | a heavy load of shot in the bowels. Bolen had been in the barn disfiguring the wid- | ow's horses by cutting their tails off. Bo- Jendied this morning. Martin is at liberty. SE Sc RS A SENSATION PROMISED. Several Residents of Indianapolis Charged With Bank Wrecking. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 11.—The trial of Francis A. Coffin, P. S. Coffin and| Albert S. Reed, the defendants in the In-| 4 @anarelis Cabinet Company case, under in- | dictment for aiding and abetting Banker | Haugbey of the Indianapolis National Bank | in wrecking that institution, began today. ‘The Cabinet Company has branch estab- lishmerts in all the leading American and European cities, and some sensational facts involving more than $1,000,000 are promised to be brought out by the evidence. A jury was and the case pre- sented, -_—_——._—_ GEN. SLOCUM WORSE. A Bad Night Passed by the Ga’ Veteran. NEW YORK, April 11—Gen. H. W. Slocum was worse this morning. He passed @ bad night. a, CLAIMS TO BE COL. HETH. The Story Told by a Convict in an Iowa Prison. ANAMOSA, Iowa, April 11—A convict mow confined in the Anamosa penitentiary claims he is the Col. Heth who commanded Heth’s division of Hill's corps at the battle} of Gettysburg. He describes accurately all the maneuvers of the battle exactly as set forth in the official records of the War Department. There is scarcely a spot six inches square on his body that has not a wound. He claims all of these were re- ceived in the army. Letters have been writ- ten to ascertain the truth of the man’s statements and establish his {dentity, and if | he is found to be what he claims, a pardon | will be asked for from the President. Heth ts seventy years old, and he and his| fon have been in prison for three years for | stealing cattle. Judge Parker of Indian ter- Fitory, who sentenced him, says they carried on cattle stealing on a large scale, ie to Kansas City. Heth claims a pers acquaintance with Secretary Smith and Secretary's father was in the army him. Peopie are inclined to believe his A letter has been written to Sec Smith in regard to the old man. > WILL WORK INCESSANTLY. Paper Mills Which H: ment Contract. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 11.—The ex-| tensive paper mills of Alexander Balfour & Sons at Port Richmond will shortly be running night and day. The present force of employes numbers 200 hemds, but the awarding to the firm by the United States government of the contract for supplying all paper used in the internal revenue bureau will necessitate a large increase in the force, as the contract calls for 1,500,000 pounds of pape ——___ IOWA'S COLDEST MARCH. a Govern- The Month Which It Has Just P: Through. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 11—The first Feport of the Iowa crop and weather serv-| ice, just issued, among other things says: Farming operations were begun three weeks | earlier than the average of recent years in ed the central and southern districts. More than half the usual amount of small grain! Was sown before the 20th of March. The daily mean temperature of tt first and second weeks of that month was sixteen degrees above the norma But the last week in March brought ter and biiz- | za and temper se to zero in parts of s the cold weather ri < grain that re: rm and the | ats. Winter wheat also suf- but as the acreage of that crop is quite I the loss will not be ap- Preciabie. All early and tender varieties of orchard fruits suffered severely, especially im the southern districts, | in his |CLEARED THE COURT (Continued from First Page.) crime than this woman told of herself upon the witness stand. His Clo i Plea. Mr. Thompson waxed eloquent, poetic, pathetic, over the sentiments inspired by the word “home,” over the serene joys of domestic bliss, such as is contemplated in @ contract of marriage. To all animate nature, Le said, home was dear. He re- ferred to little birds, who centered all their affections around their little nest, and to the cedars of Lebanon, that refused to grow away from their native soil. “And you, gentlemen of the jury,” he said, “are asked to believe that with these pistols on her person, with these threats hanging over him, they were contemplating the establish- ment of a sacred home.” As he began to draw toward a close Mr. Thompson said that from all they had seen of what had been brought out in this trial, they must agree with him in the statement that there was never a promise of marriage made in good faith, only the one that he had admitted and explained. In conclusion he asked them to bring in a fair and honest verdict im accordance with the evidence, and not like a drum-head court-martial which is summoned to try a case and ordered at the same time to convict. If they did this fairly and honestly he assured them that his client would be satisfied. Mr. Butterworth Begins. Mr. Thompson closed his argument at 10:50 o'clock and Mr. Butterworth at once began his speech. In opening Mr. Butterworth said in elo- quent phrase that he and the whcle com- munity agreed with the lawyers who had already spoken in their satisfaction that this case was drawing to a close. What never ought to have been begun ought to be brought to a speedy termination. Yet the stench of all this indecency was reeking up, and would fill the nostrils of the nation for more than a century to come. The ob- jects of bringing the suit he would touch upon later, but he could say that it was never done for the purpose of righting a wrong. There was no wrong that could be righted in any such manner. 1 am further told, he said, that in order to show what kind of people we are, the Erglish, the German, the Italian, the Bel- gian, the Austrian and the French press have, so far as they could, disinfected the information that has been spread brcadcast and given it to their people, and all this far-reaching, corrupting influence is dissem- inated, scattered for one single purpose, to which I wiil refer later on, not to right a | wrong, for there was no wrong to be right- ed. There was no money to be recovered to soothe a wounded ambition, if such there was. There was no punishment to be awarded to either party to justify the pro- ceeding inaugurated in this court. In the administration of public justice it is the business of the community to see to it that the whole community and the ad- ministration of justice itself was not out- raged by the proceeding. There was no excuse before God or among men for ever having spread abroad such filth, which makes a foul blot upon the hearthstones of this whole land. There are three parties to this suit, and the com- munity, the public generally, are taking a vital interest in the outcome. ‘The re! of this trial have been read as ha reports of no other trials since courts were opened. The Third Party to the Suit. “We have all heard,"said Mr. Butterworth, ! “of the third party to this suit, the nominal Plaintiff that has not eared actively in this Of that I can- tiff, Miss Pollard, I can speak, for € know | her if it is possible for one human being to know another. I know that I wish could hear whispered in: wo! of the Master: ‘Neithe thee. Go, and sin no more.’ if she ever did listen to these words i wae on some easion that does not appear in this cas His Friendship for the Defendant. Col. Breckinria e of the wyer*out- s a had side of the state cf Ohio. him in all the relntions of krown him as asa } | life. He tad} He was his friend | days of prosperity, when thou- hung upon his utterances. “You ed it,” continved Mr. Butterworth n eloquent cuthurst, “on the wings | ghining that the man whom Ben. But- terworth knows friend in the days of his prosperity he 1 not desert in his ad- versity. The Court Room Cleared. At the conclusion of this remark there Was an outbreak of bard-clapping and applause in the court room, which Ju Bradley immediately checked, saying: “This rocm must be cleared.” No one stirred for a moment, and Judge Bradley, looking to the officers of the court, said: “Clear the \- Everybody not a member of the bar in this audience must leave at once. There 4 y men now sitting in the bar w mally know are not members of a soldier sands Here a gentleman rose ana asked if the t applied to members of m erder of the c the bar els2where. member of the “L" he said, a bar of the state said the judge, “I apprehend that is a member of the ber weuld net so disgrace the proceedings of a cou Every member of the bar is “a ‘Then about one-half of the spectators left the reom. The Jury's Responsibility. Mr. Butterworth, continuing, spoke of the great responsibility that rested upon each one of the jurors in this case and the debt of duty they owed to every household in the land. Who is the true plaintiff in this case, and is she such as she has drawn and pic- tured herself? In order that this scene should be played before the largest possible’ audience, there has been spread broadcast the picture of a modest, shrinking girl, who had never encountered the breath of doubt or the suspicion of vice until she had met Col. Breckinridge. Her reading was of the most select sort, confined to accounts of the twittering of birds, flowers and leaves. She had no playmates. She lived apart, a per- fect life; she never played outside her own garden, as do other little rascais, with play- mates, as did the girls he used to know out on the old Miami. She did read Pope's “Es- say on Man.” That was unnecessary. She did read the “Rape of the Lock;” that be- gins with amorous suggestion. But, oh, with what an atmosphere of purity was she surrounded. Mr. Butterworth said he was as much in- terested as any one could be in the verdict given. He had the highest regard for women; he had a daughter by his own h ne reverenced the memory of other. his m The plaintiff in s case had di charming picture a budding school gi She had ma out a shrin’ : She had pla her two, Pp three year: why? That she might seem the more read- ield to the advances of a man whose very touch was pollution. portant matter in this case. Why then did she not bring her mother to tescify as to the matter of her age? If what she said was true that would seem to be the most ily to tural, the simplest way to prove the point. She even charged her mother with faisifying as to the matter of her age. And yet that mother had ot been placed upon and. There never was such a r-old girl in this case. y introducing such a person the offense of the defendant heinous as it could appear. fy cifent,” said Mr. Butterworth, “has no desire to’ palliate his offenses and if I The reason for was to mak should overstep myself in defending him! he would dismiss me at noon. Judge Wil- son cannot paint his conduct in any blacker colors than he has done himself. Country Girls Defended. “But what of the plaintiff? Ah, I had hoped that we micht get through this case Without insulting the country girls of our land and every household in the nation. his plaintiff told Mr. Carlisle that she sa simple little country girl and so was not in a position to protect her virtue. Out mother was ry girl. our mothe: Sa country ze Wilson. You and I have known girls out on the oid Miami hills, Wilson. We used to see them at » at log rollings, at singing scheol all through life. You and I n, that those girls, those rls, were honest and vir- tuous e It i ge Wilson, “and we'll answered Mr. Butter- est you have.” utterworth a truly el r s in the course of which he criticised the plaintiff's attorneys but of the plain-| g He had known | {fh This was an im-| for their efforts to build up the defendant | as a lecturer before religious bodies, as a man of outward morality, teaching a form of ethics which makes men better, while he himself was all the time struggling against his own temptation; all this for the sake of making his fall the worse. It the course of his speech Mr. Butter- worth spoke of the way the defendant was talked about. If he smiled the people suid he was careless. If he laughed they said he was heartless, soulless. If he looked grave they said he was overcome with re- morse. He really did not know what way of bearing himself was left for the defend- ant. “While, as for the plaintiff,” said Mr. Butterworth, “if she should chance to smile they all say she is smiling through a veil of tears.” Interrupted by Judge Bradley. “Now, Mr. Butterworth,” said Judge Bradley, interrupting him, “don’t you think you had better confine yourself to the subject-matter of the case. There is noth- ing of that sort in evidence.” Mr. Butterworth seemed to think that that line of argument was quite proper, | and started to argue the point with the court. Judge Bradley insisted, however, that if there had been any such talk it) had taken place outside of the court and in the newspapers, and was something of | which the jury were not supposed to have any cognizance. M>. Butterworth might comment upon the bearing and appearance | of the parties in court, and not upon com- | ments. The Plaintif’s Age, Mr. Butterworth yielded gracefully, and | leaving that sort of argument, went on | with his speech. Neglecting generalities for the time being, he went back to the details of the case, beginning with the matter of the plaintiff's age. She had tried to make | herself out ycunger than she really wus, | and this he regarded as a very signi fact. He pointed out that in’ 18s she must, according to her own statement, have been only fourteen years of axe, she was engaged to be married. Then he read a letter from her at that date to Owen Robinson, in evidence in this case, to show that in reality she was a matured young woman, knowing all that she should have known of life. This, he thought, put quite another phase upon the whole matter, and the question narrowed down to this: Was the woman the defendant tuok out to drive that night in a hack a weak, inexperienced girl, cr did she really know what she wes doing? It looked as though she did when she spoke of love for a wh! ired ma ried man, and even went so as to think of marrying him herself when his wif should die. The plaintiff was not n hful and retiring as she people to think, even as far back as was proved by this letter to Owen Rob- inson. H This letter Mr. Butterworth spoke of as beyond a doubt a love letter, and then he read another, id he did not intend | to leave the pl: until he had shown | what manner an she was. ‘Thi ond letter referred to the good times she | had had with Owen Robi | mer of 1880, This looked as thous been rather precocious for a he had | of her girl had liv from all sf and w hen she met 1 ridge and “became to him as clay in the hands of the potter.” The next incidenc in her life, the law: statements that she said, that t a light upon the charact of the girl her meeting with Jim Rode: Her statements all along had been that her chief desire at this time for an educa- tion that she might have a chance in 1 before her a woman who ha starting out with li w s. He ref to whom he paid the high- But } time, d met Jim Roder at this and the result was the making of a | . the like of which was never heard in a free republic nor ever will In p fact, no such con- tract ever was made. If it had been the mother of the plaint it is claimed, S$ a party to the c would have ve been brought It was strange | been done. But how the lawyers for the piaintiff curious propensity summoning who were re ple chietly he amount they did not k y, and of prov- r material po witnesses wh cn. could not ciation w anything that for the 1 ‘ol. Breckinridge her mother . There was not a line of to support such statement, had not made it. They could he mother never forgets a wa: vard child, though the father may. A mother’s heart never grows 1. The plaintiff’ had been convicted of inju dicious, carel conduc! This was proved beyond a by the testimony of Mol The plaintiff's lawyers ha prove, or, at least, to di mony, but without avail. They the jury to ignore and disbelieve her sta ments, the statements of a woman, who, it is true, had strayed from the herself of her sin. She was a penitent Mag- dalen, and had lived an honest life since, « the wife of an honest man. And in prefer- ence to the testimony of that woman the asked the y to believe the s | woman who had chosen a life of sin and ‘chose to cling to it rather than to turn aside. If the plaintiff was the innocent giri had t they had attempted to show, wh not brought witnes: tucky, where she y s from over in Ken- as so well known, and where she had lived that simple ideal life. jIn reality the plaintiff had built her ca: | upon a foundation of sand. | At this point in the argument the court} took the usual noon recess. | After Recess, Mr. Butterworth took up his speech again after recess, devoting his attention to the plaintif® at the time of her life in Cincin- nati, after leaving Notre Dame Convent. | As to the motives that led to her going to | Cincinnati Mr. Butterworth said that it had pleased Providence to leave earmarks here | and there in her story, so that they might | discriminate between what was true and what was false. Throughout all this time | he begged to call their attention to a cond! tion of mind on the part of the plaintiff as far as possible from what she claimed it was. She was, in fact, an altogether dif- ferent woman from what she wished to make herself out, judged by the standards by which we must all be judged here and in the her*after, by the deeds done in the body. The character of the woman is indi- cated in everything she did as clearly as can be. | Taking in his hand the Wessie Brown let- | ter, Mr. Butterworth called their attention to the fact that it was written months be- fore she met Mr. Breckinridge. He read it over to the jury again, stopping frequently to point out that such sentiments as the le ter contained were not those of a woman | such as Miss Pollard wanted them to think her. She spoke of her “joyless lift Speaking of this, Mr. Butterworth said: “A joyless life? a home, with a devoted mother, sisters, brothers and friends! If that is what goes to make up a joyless life what a joyless life must be that of our sisters and daughters!” This remark of his gives an idea of the manner in which he dissected the lette Agan he teok occasion to criticise the la | yers for summoning young men and other ignorant witnesses to prove the matter of | the plaintiff's age and other facts that might | have been proved by her mother, her aunt or by other natural witnesses. Speaking of that part of the letter which recounted the making of the contract with Rodes, Mr. Butterworth said: “Why, she had no more idea of marrying that old man than I have of marrying—er—er—well, the goddess of | wa: “But there {isn’t any such goddess,” re- marked Mr. Wilson in an_underton “That may be,” said Mr. Butterworth, | rather testily, “but there used to be in the old heathen mythology.” After this little parry he went on with the letter, and when he got down to the writer's expression of affection for her “blind Bar- nabas” he said that there was to be found the milk of the cocoanut. The writer be- wailed the fact that some people had every- thing while other people had nothing. Mr. Butterworth said that in a few minutes he would take that up and make an invoice of she had herself in the way of love and | engagements. ‘And all this,” continued Mr. Dutter- worth, “was written by this woman months before she met Wm. C. P. Pr inridge, a star that she is now trying to drag down from the firmament and make herself be seen by the world, because she has her grasp tight about the sta ‘Then took occasion to pay another glowing tribute to the inherent virtue of American women, and he hoped that the day would never come when we shall have to intrust {t to the guardianship of chap- erones and male relat In view of the confidence and trust that are placed in cur women alway it very remark- able that th i that The Defendant Not Led Astray. An irsinuation, a hint, had gone out over the country that the defendant in this | await the res ‘near the north end of the Aqueduct bridge. ease had claimed that he had been led astray by the girl. Nothing could be far- ther from the truth. It was simply as the defendant himself had admitted. There Was no struggle, no protest. It was simply that there were two people who were to- gether and who were both willing to violate God's law for the sake of gratifying their passiors, It was something to be greatly deplored, but it was something that has occurred time and again in the past and will occur in the future. The only way to prevent it is to inculcate in our children such an idea of morality that everything ee the sort would be utterly repugnant to em. At the time of this meeting the plaintiff was twenty years of age, instead of seven- teen. Instead of being an innocent and Suileless girl she was one who had trodden many and devious paths. All this had been proved by the testi- mony of the witnesses for the defense, and If it was not true it was within the power of the plaintiff to disprove it, but that had not been done. The alleged forged letter, too, was undoubtedly in the hand- writing of the plaintiff. When she was asked to read it to the jury she said she | would like to examine it, for often when | she could not recognize a letter by the writing she would know it by the contents. She did not want to see the contents to know if it was her letter. She knew it was. She only wanted to see what was in it to see if it would hurt her case, and as soon as she was sure that it would she de- nied that she had ever written it. Further- more, the authenticity of the letter had been proved by the experts and the plain- tiff had not even cast a doubt upon it by bringing expert testimony on the other side. Mr. Wilson had said that it was easy to get expert testimony to prove any- thing and yet they had not brought any. No expert would ever risk his reputation upon such a statement. A Dramatic Climax. Then came one of the most elcquent climexes of the speech. After speaking of the glorious history and antecedents of the Breckinridge family,Mr.Butterworth rushed towards Mr. Breckinridge, and in dramatic tones told him that unless that letter was written by t Miss Pollard he was a foree>. gotten your glo-ious ave turned a common forger that woman is a liar.” Then, in a calmer tone, Mr. Butterworth told the jury that if an of the intelli- gence of Mr. Kinridge had undertaken to win his forged letter he would use by have written suc clinched a letter as would have matter the beyond a doubt. the chasm. He n unmitigated chump as ev. 1 up such a bridge as would only go ss." He would have finished once for all. ——— POSSIBLY FATALLY HURT A Sunday Base Ball Row May End in a Death. He ner busine: up the Two Young Men Have Trouble and One May Die From a Blow From a Bat. Simd:v game of base ball, several and fichts, and the probable kill- ing of James MciIntesh, went to make up the sen of on Buzzards Point three di ago. Two picked nines | of young men, cne from the vicinity of the Long bridge and the other from the neigh- horhood of 6th and C streets southwest, fed the ground where base ball is | played, but ihey were unable to finish the me and depart without having trouble, Two of the players engaged in a fight ! about the possession or ownership of a > ball bat, and it was with some difi- y that a gereral fight was prevented. This cittle ir was apparently settled When snother row siarted, and then, the men young Will of Buzzards Point hand : iain who had play the nines, vy » bat on his should some of the r him. was hurled at field with that he ulted, gave his bat ing | 1 against McIntosh’s head. hen there was a general disorder, and the crow dispersed for fear the police would appear and arrest all hands. It was about noon when McIntosh reached ihe fourth precinct and related his story of r. hibited a wound on his use of the base ball He wanted to go to the | but said he was able to walk The wound was painful, but he did re to be taken to the hospital in a not de: Vernon gave him a permit, and he | Providence Hospital for treatment. s no evidence that the wound was a dangerous and for that reason the police made no extra effort to cause the ar- rest of young Frederick that day, but thought it would be time to arrest him wi when the injured man returned from the in spital and swore out a warrant. but y the hospital authorities | telephoned the police that McIntosh was seriously injured. He was suffering from concussion of the brain and would probably \s soon as this information was received by the police yesterday Policeman Barry went out and arrested young Frederick, who had made no effort to escape, but was perfectly willing to go to the station and It of McIntosh’s injuries, and the judicial investigation. This morning he was taken to the Police | Court and charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. The case was continued indefinitely and the young man was com- | mitted to jail. | ‘The condition of the patient was unchang- ed today. He is suffering from concussion of the brain and little hopes of his recovery | are entertained. ‘The defendant claims that he used the base ball bat to prevent being assaulted. | —_— | TRANSFER STATION. UNION A Policy That Will Improve the Street Railroad Situation. If the policy of the Commissioners is carried out the railroad situation in Wash- ington will be highly improved. After several months of careful study and consideration, the Commissioners have decided upon a scheme of union transfer stations for street car companies. The primary ob- ject of this is to prevent the city from being gridironed by more railroad com- panies and at the same time bring about a system of transfer which will answer all purposes. The scheme was originated by Capt. Powell, the Engineer Commis- ioner, who has given the study of street railroads considerable attention since he has been connected with the city govern- ment. Briefly, the scheme of the Com- missioners is to establish at central points in all sections of the city commodious sta- tions for the transfer of passengers from one line to another. It will be seen at a glance that such an arrangement would allow a citizen living in Anacostia to reach Georgetown on one fare, and will do away with the necessity of one railroad using the tracks of another. Location of the Station. In the report of the Commissioners on the Great Falls railroad bill, which was print- ed in yesterday’s Star, there was a pro- vision for a union transfer station at or It was also provided that all railroads en- tering Georgetown from the Aqueduct bridge, or the west, should terminate at this station and that the Washington and Georgetown railroad should extend its tracks to that station. This is the begin- ning of the scheme; for if this charter is granted, as recommended by the Commis- sioners, the intersecting roads at that point must stand the expense incident to the erection of a station. It has been de- cided to locate another one of these sta- tions at 7th and Florida avenue, where four street railroads intersect; another will be erected at the intersection of H street, Maryland avenue, 15th street, Bladensburg and benning road; another will be located on B street between 6th and 7th streets northwest, a short distance west of the Baltimore and Potomac depot, and _ still another near the Washington end of the new Pennsylvania avenue bridge. It is SANE OR INSANE pone Bee St, Medical Experts Testify as to Jack the Slasher. COUNSEL ARGUING THE MATTER TODAY The Mental Condition of the Crim- inal Under Examination. A REMARKABLE CASE oe The trial of George Taylor, alias George Jones, alias ‘Jack the Slasher,” was not concluded yesterday, and this morning the trial was resumed before Judge Cole in Criminal Court, No. 2, in the presence of another large throng, “the Slasher” proving an even greater drawing card than the Pol- Jard-Breckinridge case. The prisoner ap- peared as he had yesterday, head bent for- ward on his chest, his eyes staring down at his feet, his features convulsed in a deep frown, and his eyes winking aimost con- tinuously, while his lips moved now and then, as if muttering to himseif. When the testimony of Dr. Francis was concluded yesterday afternoon the defense rested their case, and the government pro- ceeded to call several witnesses in rebuttal. The first one was Dr. Firman J. Shadd of Freeiman’s Hospital, who said that he had examined the prisoner, and, while he be- lieved he was suffering from fear, he nev- ercheless believed he was feigning. Fright, explained Dr. Shadd, increased the pulse and chilled the extremities and skin. Dr. J. Wesley Bovee stated that he had exam- ined the prisoner twice at the jail and also at the court house, had heard the testi- mony, and believed that the man was not insane. Dr. Bovee said that the defendant Was not below the intelligence of the ordi- nary colored person, and also stated that imbecility, slight or great, was characteris- tic of 60 per cent of the negro race. In con- versing with the prisoner the man had said that he would rather go to an insane asy- lum than to the penitentiary. br, James R. Wilder testified that he had examined the prisoner, finding his pulse to be 115, and, while he considered him of low intellect, an imbecile, he believed that he realized the difference between right and wrong. Dr. Wilder stated that not more than 5 per cent of either the white or negro races were imbeciles. Detectives R. E. Weedon and Edward Horne testified as to their conversation with the prisoner, and stated that while he | at times conversed with more or less re- | luctance, he did not talk coherently and in- teiligentiy able memory ‘The first witness called this morning by | the prosecution in rebuttal was Dr. Albert C. Patterson, who testified that he had ex- amined the prisoner yesterday and today. Yesterday his pulse was 105 and this morn- ing 80, The man exhibited a condition of imbecility, but of a higher degree. He be- Keved that the man was assuming his pres- ent slate of stupfdity and indifference, a | condition not natural to him. He believed that the fellow knew the difference between rignt and wrong. Answering an inquiry of Judge Cole, Dr. Patterson said that the fact that the man slashed clothing and furniture indicated an insane tendency, especially when there seemed to be no reason for doing such dam- age. Charles Robinson, an intelligent elderly | colored man, testified that he was an uncle of the prisoner and that the man was born during the war. worked with several persons here several years ago and performed his work well. Last summer about twice a week, and when asked where he lived replied, ““Flananner avenue.” ‘The witness said that he did not know the condition of ways thought George “cracky He never thought him crazy, although he often was “eranky in his talks an’ doin’s.” George bad worked here for a Dr. Hatch, and the doctor said he was a very good servant. The witness said that he never knew of any of the man’s people being crazy. To Judge Cole the witness said that the prisoner always talked in an ordinary tone, and generally intelligently. He also ate well Witness saw George the night of bis arrest the station, when the prisoner talked as usual. and proceeded to tell him many improbable stories, which, witness told him, he did not believe. He claimed that he had met a man just before being arrested who asked him to go with him after giving him a drink of something out of a bottle. As his last witness the district attorney called Mr. R. W. Dutton, a Star reporter, who stated that he had seen the prisoner cn | three different occasions at police headq1ar- ters between the time of his arrest and his commitment to jail, and had conversed with the man and had also heard others converse with him. The witness explained that while the prisoner was undoubtedly greatly frightened and at first disinclined to Say anything, he at length did converse with witness and others intelligentiy. Wit- ness said that a most oner to accurately Inform the officers as to the different houses from which he took the almost innumerable things. The witness was allowed to state, against the objection of the defendant's counsel, that while the prisoner had impressed bim as a man of low intelligence, he did not be- lieve him insane. Mr. Milton M. Holland was recalled by the defense, when he stated that he believed the prisoner mentally wrong. Likened to Guiteau, That closed the testimony on both sides, and the district attorney’s assistant, Mr. Jeffords, proceeded to argue the case before the jury, after Judge “Cole had intimated that he would, as far as practicable, charge the jury in the line pursued by Judge Ccx in the Guiteau case. The Arguments. Mr. Jeffords’ argument was a brief one, the speaker telling the jury that the one important question for them to solve was, did the prisoner at the time he committed the offense possess the ability to distin- guish between right and wrong. The man’s present condition was not to be considered except in enabling the jury to deterinine whether the man’s offense was the act of a wholly irresponsible being. At the conclusion of Mr. Jeffords’ argu- ment, “, a recess was taken until 1 o'clock, when Mr, T. C. Taylor addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. Mr. Taylor explained that he and his associate, Mr. Campbell Carrington, had been as- signed to the prisoner's defense by Judge Cole, and while each had cnly defended the man at the express request of the that he should have the denelit of enced counsel, they had done ev in the brief time at their disposal to protect both the prisoner and the community. Briefly recalling the testimony of the med- ical experts, Mr. Taylor contended that it seemed to him that but one conclusion couid be reached—that the prisoner was suffering from such mental derangement as pre- cluded any reasonable belief that the man was responsible for his acts. Mr. Taylor was followed by Mr. Carring- ton, who stated that he was defending a man who had terrorized the whole District for months, and for whom he watched night after night with a double-barreled shotgun. The man, he said, was an enigma, which he confessed he was unable to solve. He was a being the most remarkable in the crim- inal history of this or any other commu- nity, of low intelligence, ignorant and un- couth; yet cunning to the extreme, and with a mania or impulse for wanton destruction that was inconsistent with any other theory than that he was insane. Stating that both Judge Cole and District Attorney Birney were entitled to the high- est commendation for the fairness and con- sideration with which they had conducted the case against the prisoner, Mr. Carring- ton sald that it was a remarkable fact that the man robbed, whose property had been wantonly destroyed, Mr. Holland, had de- clared that he believed the man was in- sane now, and also at the time he detected him in his house. Another remarkable fact was the one who knew him best, the prison- er’s uncle, had described him as cranky, as wishing to destroy the city with dynamite simply to behold the result of destruction. While it was true, said Mr. Carrington, that the man had availed himself of the proceeds of some of his burglaries, it was also true that the fellow had destroyed about all the rest of his proceeds in a spirit which could only be described as the spirit of a demon of destruction, without more reason than to carry out his desire for de- understood that the railroad companies are in favor of this scheme. _> Special Attorney Appointed. Attorney General Olney has appointed John Aust of Carthage, Tenn., a special attorney in the Department of Justice, ao defend government suits in the Court of Claims. struction. At the conclusion of Mr. Carrington’s argument the case was continued until tomorrow morning. sede Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of th thermometer at the weather bureau tod: 8 a. m., 34; 2 p. m, 33; maximum, minimum, 33. WILL VOTE FOR IT/FINANCE AND TRADE Senator Morgan Defines His Position on the Tariff Bill. Little Change in the Railway List Quotations, INDUSTRIALS WERE MORE IN DEMAND Tariff Legislation Regarded as Im- probable. His Personal or Political Explanation —Filibustering Continued in the | | The galleries of the Senate had a deserted appearance when that body was called to |order today. Promptly after the reading of yesterday's journal, the Senate passed, on lotion of Mr. Gallinger, a bill granting a pension of $30 per month to Otis Smith. On motion of Senator Blanchard (La.) the| GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Senate passed the House bill authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge Little river, in the | Special Dispatch to The Evening Star, state of Arkansas. | NEW YORK, April 11.—Duliness was the ‘The Senate considered for some time the dominant. and practically the only feature urgent deficiency bill, but at 1 o'clock it in today’s stock market. The destruction went over without ection, and the tariff of wires by last night's storm seriously bill was taken up, In accordance with the interfered with out-of-town business, es House of Representatives. nd exhibited a rather anne He said that his nephew | the prisoner used to come | a crazy man, but that he al-) remarkable fact | | noticed by him was the ability of the pris- terms of the agresment of yesterday. Mr. Morgan's Personal Exphe Senator Hale took the floor to speak on the bill, but yielded to Senator Morgan for a personal explunation. The Alabama Sena- tor prefaced his statement with the remark that he did not know whether to call it a personal or political explanation. He re- ferred to a manifesto from the Minnesota Democratic Assaciation. ber of democratic Senators (among them himself) were alleged to be in league with the “Hill-Gorman-Pugh combination” in op- position to the tariff bill, in which they were called “masked” democrats. “That,” remarked Mr. Morgan, “is the French method of trying a man in his ab- sence and without serving notice upon him.” He expressed himself as satisfied with the bill now before the Senate as it came from the finance committee, and it was his purpose to vote for it without any amendments so far as he now knew. And if Senators on the republican side of the chamber wanted to delay action on the bill in the way of a filibuster, he was willing, as on many previous occasions, to sit up for several consecutive nights to accomamo- | date them by listening to their speeches. | “He had been a tariff reformer, \clared, before many of the gentlemen who had issued this diatribe against him, and he had never relaxed his purpose and de- sire to have a fair, just and equitable sys- tem of tariff taxation in the United states. | Ne One Else Wanted to Explain. | Before proceeding with his speech Mr. Hale inquired humorously whether any in the minority list desired to explain their positions. If so, he would gladly yield to them even though it might lay them open to the charge of filibustering. No Senator accepted this invitation, but Mr. Jones of Arkansas obtained permis- sion to make a report from a committee. Mr. Harris thereupon gave notice that hereafter he would object to morning busi- ness, or any other business being injected into the tariff debate. “The Senator from Tennessee would not exclude the confessional,” inquired Mr. Hale, insinuatingly. “When the Senator from Maine yielded to the Senator from Alabama,” replied Mr. Harris, with emphasis, “it was in the na- ture of an explanation on the tariff bill and not a violation of the rule.” Mr. Hale Against the Tariff Bi | “I so understood it,” returned Mr. Hale, | with ea laugh, and the incident being thus closed he began his speech against the tariff bill. He spoke slowly and easily, in a conversational tone of voice, but there seemed a lack of interest in the question and the Senate chamber looked compara- | tively deserted. | THE HOUSE. Immediately after the reading of the jour- nal today Speaker Crisp ruled on the point of order raised by Mr. Reed yesterday against Mr. Springer’s attempt to withdraw the motion made by him last Saturday to discharge the warrant issued to the ser- geant-at-arms during the recent deadlock to arrest absentees. He held that as the House was dividing upon the motion when it adjourned the motion could not be withdrawn. He elso held that the vote upon this motion became the regular order, and the clerk was di- rected to call the roll. The republicans re- frained from voting. This was in pursuance of the plan decided upon by Mr. Reed and his colleagues to force the democrats to Produce a quorum on this motion. The | | shown by the result of the roi call: 141—5. A call of the House developed the presence of 217 members. The vote then recurred on Mr. Springer’s motion. Again no responses came from the republican side. Again the democrats failed to muster a vote resulting, 147-1. As it was apparent that the democrats could not secure a quorum today, Mr. Dockery moved to ad- journ, and the motion was carried, and, at 1:40 p. m., the House adjourned until to- morrow. ———_o-_____ THE NEW JERSEY ELECTION A Source of Delight to Mr. Hii Opponents of the Tariff BU Senator Hill and the other opponents of the tariff bill are greatly delighted over the fact that amid the general defeat of the democrats in New Jersey, the only place where democratic gains were made was in Paterson, the home of Representa- tive Cadmus, who voted against the Wil- son bill in the House. ot -o-— GAMA’S ESCAPE. No Official Information of It at the State Department, The Secretary of State has received pro urgent admiral, Gama, from the Portu- guese man-of-war, which was taking him /and his officers to a piace of safety in | Portugal. ister Thompson at Rio contained nothing more important than a request { sion to come home on jeave of ce. This request will undoubtedly be granted and Mr. Thompson will probably -aaKe his | appearance in Washington in the course of ja few weeks. paar ee en erten een A Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular cail— se i Li at States 4s, registered, United States 4s, mited States 3s, 117i, | t of Columbia Bonds. is bid. 30-year Funding 20-year Funding 5s, Gm, id, 10 bid Water stock "cures 8, 117 bid. “Water stock cu! 7s, 1903, “120 3.658, Funding | currency, 11ig bid, 113 asked rex. 100 bid. Miscellaneous Bonds.—Washington and town Railroad conv. 68, Ist, 129 bid, Wash nd. Georgetown Ratiroad cour. Gx. 24. Ee jetropolitan Railroad x | Gs, 101 ‘vid, ed, “Delt Kaltroad os. 85. bid | 93° asked. "E phone 5s, 97) bid. and Trust bs, 105, F. | Security and Trust’ 5s, & 0, 100 bid, Washington Market 6s," 1 Washington Market Gs, Washington Market Company ext. Gs. Masonic Hall Association Ss, 103% bid. i 104 bid, W, s Light Infantry 2 cog National Bank bid, 350 asked. asked. Metropolit bid, 305 as a. Fs 1 Safe Deposit and Trust Compantes.—Na Safe Deposit and Trust, 130 bid, 13 v ingtou Laan and Trnst,” 120 pid. Security and Trust, 133% bid. on Safe Deposit, 105 asked. Stocks.—Washington and Georgetown, |. 315 asked. Metropolitan, Sb bid, 98 asked. . 63 bid, Gly asked. Melt, 22° bid. Eck- bid. trie Light Stock: ed. Geergetown Light, 120 bid. . 50 asked. Metropolitan, 72 bid. Potomac, 75 bid, 85 asked. Ari! . 162 asked. German America asked. National Union, 13. bid, 4 1244 asked. 3 bia, 19% bid. 13% peked izes, Th cople's. 54 bid. Sig asked. Lis st asked. Commercial, 5 bid, asked. eke Title Insurance Stocks.—Iteal Estate Title, 212 id, 120 asked. Columbia Title, 7 bid, Tig asked. Washington Title, Sl asked. Telephone Stocks.—Pennsylvanta, 47 asked. Chesa- peake und Potomae, can Graphopbone. 4 2% bid, Stocks. 4 bid. 49% asked. Ameri- id. 414 asked. Pneumatic 30_ asked. Market, 13 +” 145, Gon lage, Miscellaneous ‘Washington Falls Ice, 1 Seted’ “Ball Htsa Panorama, 15 bth, ‘Licata Ee asked. Bull tun ma, 15, Li bid. Inter-Ocean Building, 100 asked in which a num-/ he de- | other Senators whose names were included | democrats were 33 short of a quorum, as | | Official information of the escape of the in- | The latest dispatch from Min-| 5! , pecially im the south. ‘Traders were dis- | Posed to work for a reaction, but activity in all directions was prevented by the general narrowness. The railroad list hung idly in the neigh- borhood of opening figures, with no import- ant changes in price. Many of the usually | active stocks, noticeably the Grangers,were almost entirely neglected, and fluctuated lisuessly within the narrow limits of 1-2 per cent. The industrials were more in demand, and profited slightly by their popu- larity. American tobacco made the greatest gain of the day, selling up 11-2 per cent from opening figures on @ fair volume of business. Chicago Gas was irregular | its movements, do 4 (on early trading ee e attitude of tl te tariff bill is decidedly —a-$~4 curity, whether | begging for a purchaser. ly offering money, in sums to suit, baiance of the year, at 2 1-2 te 8 1-2 cent. A 6 per cent bond, even at a premium of 20 or 25 per cent, has come to be regarded as a good investment under the circum- stances. The question of gold bearing on current specu- lative conditions, and probably temporary setback in prices, At present, however, there is little in the situation to warrart risks on side of the market. The last hour was a mere repeti- tion of the carly trading, the only con- spicvous feature being a advunce in American Tobacco. The dull and steady. Wheat Was Weak. CHICAGO, April 11.—Wheat was weak today on free liquidation of May. After opening 3-8 lower at 621-4, May sold down 1 cent. Pardri free buyer and @ reaction to trict followed, Weak cables aided in the decline. enementen FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘The follo are the the 4 ne fowest and the closiag prices'at the New Tort Stock market today, os teperwed oy Macartney, members New York ‘orrespondents Messrs. Moore & Schiey, No. $9 Chicago. B. ana @ Cine. and Nortay Neago Gas . | Me and St. CAM. and St Pa: CRI Del. quorum. This time they were 18 short, the | Dem i i ‘Ont. and Western... Pacific Mail... Phila. and Reading | Pullman P. Car Co, Richmond Terminai. Southern Pacitic. Texas Pacutic. | Teun. Coal and Iron: Western Union Tel Wiscousin Central. jroanemet omnes, Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, Md., April 11.—Piour quiet, un. changed —receipts, 6.836 Wack its, SSNS barrels. Wheat dull, at a decline—spot, €2qa62jq; July, G4%yn64%; steamer No. f 5a) receipts, 8,112 bushels; stock, 969.~ ong bushels, sales, 354,000 bushels—amill by il ish ay dnll—good ain freights weak an® unche and unchanged. Butter firm—fanc 25: da. imitation, 1920: "do. ladle. ladle, 14al5. store packed. I3al4. Eggs Grm—tirsh, 11. Cheese unchanged. aoeneenatiniass Chicago Grain and Provision Markets, ted by Silsby & Co., bankers and broke, | Metropolitan Bank building | CHICAGO, April 11, 1894, j ‘Open. High. Low. Clone, Wheat—May a —_— PROPOSED SHIP CANAL, A Connection Between Lake Superior and the Mississippi. ST. PAUL, Minn., April 11—The commit- tee of the chamber of commerce having in charge the matter of a proposed ship canal between Lake Superior and the Mis. sissippi called on Prof. Winchell, state geologist, for information on the water supply for the eastern end of the ship canal, the congressional committee on canals being doubtful of the sufficiency the water supply. A letter just i from Prof. Winchell states that the prob- able route of a canal is a tract of lake country ten square miles, easily accessible and convenient for use, which has water “abundantly sufficient to feed the canal on the — og a lower stations.” Of course there is still more water available from the larger streams, ‘The committee will report on the bill to~ morrow.