Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 8, 1909, Page 1

VOL. LL—NO. 7. MRS. ERB AND SISTER GO FREE Acquitted on Charge of Murder of Captain J. Clayton Erb Oct. 6 Last JURY OUT NEARLY EIGHTEEN HOURS Both Women had been Charged Separately and Jointly with Shooting the Captain—Scene jin Court when Verdict was Given—Home Life of Erb Family Fre- quently Disturbed by Quarrels. Media, Pg., Janu. 7.—Mirs, M. Florence Philadelphia : Philadelph'a and Reaain; company, always sid Story of the Shooting. who was well inown in political circles | t all over Pennsylvania, and charged wi the night of Oct. 6 1 10 enter his country night of Oct. § Captain Erb quar- reled with his wife and she tclephoned tie Village Acquitted Thank Each Juryman. d been out ought in a veri and summoned her to the two women of the Red Ga Erb left his bedr eighteen hours, | of Tot guilty 1t the case of shooting the captain. Son, ‘the for CATHERINE BEISEL, revolver Trom him in the strugg. Future Plans of the Women Uncertain. | 'l Fomily Jars, r in the gay left for Phil- horsewoman, hunting expeditions in th ¥ounding Philade & town house and To Make No Contest for Estate. 1t is not probable t equeatly quart INDEPENDENT OIL COMPANIES. ; YABSCONDING “COUNT” IN LONDON. Ready to Settls With' Women Who Charged Him With Fraud. Testimony in Government Suit for Dis- soluticn of Standard Oii. ard O)l company had was to start embezzlcment today for tlie arre Louis Hamon, formerly 1own in Am- il companies in ified today by L. H. Fas 1 manager of the Red * Baltimore, when he timeny yesterday in the terday after the allegation of ti «rican women them of valuable ytocks. out, however, that if Hamon is 4 Brit- ish subject, he cannot be brought here €rom London because Great does not permit the extradition of her d defrauded 1t is pointed its cuts as a rule w to hold its traae. London, Jan. 7.—“Count” Louis Ha- mon, who left being charged by Mrs, Julia P. Nev and Miss Josephine Pomeroy New York with defrauding independent conc testified by Standard emplo. war in Balti in London today. transaction on fraud 1s based 85 Pomeroy app him a year ago, according to to extricute them from a stock deal in New York in which heavy losers. ISOLATED IN HOSPITAL, VICTIM OF LEPR Woman 60 Years Old, Former Mission- ary to South America He succeeded their fortune and them regular accounts. ber he called “upon the two women to redeem their stock, giving then As they did not comply th! stock was sold, according to Hamon, leaving $7,000 due them. #aye he is ready to pay hatever an ex $rench dourt finds a former mis America, and for fourteen | ident of Aiken, isolated in a hospital at the place anaesthetic three years Mrs. Kirl For a long time she has lived al woman companion, Last Novem- | has been bl the women pert appointed by a guarded | wagon whi years she has made the streets, but gecently began to make more search- ing inquiries, which eulminated a few ago in a report of the matter to hoard of health, ap- | killed. Cope was about Tests to Determine Value of Oil as| pearance on Fuel for Warships. Santa Barbara, (4l nited States monitor Cheyenne, eeutly converted wnd the only ‘ship iu has arrived menced 4 series of tests and trials 1o determine the value of & fuel for warships. Cept. J. J. Knapp. commenéing the monitor, said that oi %24l has given excellent resulrs Steamship Arrival, At Hayre, Jan, 7: New York. re- | the state Nothing is known Kirke's family and has | here of Mrs. she formerly ment that ghe cams from Preferred Prison to Zers Liberiy Oklahoma City, Oki air_all"but thyes | deciared | Norrhern train Werailed at Commercial prison to freedorn in | La Lortaine, from (ting a breaih of iy Perugia, from | they zero weuther. Xow York for Cabled Paragraphs St. Petersburg, Jan. 7.—Special de- spatches received here from Teheran say the shah of Persia has again is- sued a manifesto revoking the consti- tution. Paris, Jan. 7.—The ciwl court of the ine today ordered Harold S. Vander- bilt to pay $100 to a peasant named Guigard, who was struck recently b: M. Vanderbilt's automobile near Nic. Mr. Vanderbilt has already given this man $300 voluntarily. Berlin, Jan. 7.—General Cipriano Ca. tro is improving rapidly. He was able to conv today for a considerable time with his wife and others. Dr. Israel is of the opinion that the gen- eral will be confined to the hospital for aboit two weeks longer. Marseilles, Jan, 7.—The port authori- < have been advised that the Geor- gia, Nebraska, New Jersey and Rhode Island of the American Atlfintic battle- ship fleet will arrive here'on Januar: 14 and will remain until nuary Anchos accordingly has been re- served for the ships in the new har- bor. 180, Jan. 7.—Prof. Hiram Bing- f Yale university, a member of e Pan-American Scientific congress that has just closed, left here today for southern Peru to engage in historical rescarch. The professor is delighted h the rtion accorded the Amer- ican delegates in CI and he is optim- istic regarding the this meeting of the cong MINISTER MAY BE FUGITIVE INSTEAD OF VICTIM. Supposed Slain Methodist Pastor is Thought to Be Alive—Battle Run Church Mystery Deepens. St. Clair, Mich, Jan. 7.—Rev. J. H. i the Methodist mini £ ch, who la night w o be the victim whose di and burned body was found X i near Colum- of St. Clair county, leoking upon the minister as a i d of a murdercr's victim, Courtright, Ontario, 1g clergyman and that retuined to Mbichigan to ttie Run" church my: s tonight point to G €01l Browning of Adair as the person who fe in the desp hand robably oc evening of Tue ng light of a lictle on curred ir day by th lamp. E porten ¥ he oached A man answering v Rev, M. who we @ it he weuld across the river to Canada. e that was running in time, and declined th He sald afterw ppeared to be in highly nervows cond The man | then “avproached the Clair ferry. nd is ticught to have crossed to Courtright, Ontario The on h of A o at hoine hoar DETECTIVES ASKED TO HUNT FOR REV. JERE KNODE COOK Who Eloped With Miss Whaley— Hartford Police Chief Writes to Los Angeles Department. Los Augeles, Cal, Jar letter received yesterday by the police department from the chief of police of | Hartford, Conn. asking that detec- tives search for Rev. Jere Knode | Cook and Miss Floretta Whaley, who eloped from Long Island to sco. whence it is sald th for Los Angeles police desire to know the ereabouts of Ceok is not known in but it is conjectured that or them may be in con- nection with possible divorce proceed- ings by the wife of Cook, or in tion to the inheritance ¢ ley. The pair now have dren, the oldest ah Hartford. Conn., . Tice Gunn s written by him to the chief of police of Los Angeles in referemce to Rev. jere Knode Cook was not in the intel he 1o written at the request of a friend had asked him to make inqu oncerning Cook. T.—<Chief of Po- FURTHER SEVERE SHOCKS. Large Fissures Observed in Mountains Near Messina. Professor Ricco, di- of the observatory at Mount returned from Messina to- that he had observed lurge ures in the mountains near Messina. cse ran parallel to the coast. The observatory instruments marked se eral recent shocke. °s, Jan. 7.—Despat here ‘state that severe earthq shocks occurred at Monteleone and Palmi this evening. The ruins of the Fouses were shaken down and the peo- ple were thrown intaa panic CHARGED WITH FORGERIES, Oakland Mining Broker Arrested on Complaint of Millionaire. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 7.—F. B. - nor, real = promoter mining city, was arrested to- worn to by Jamés re banker night on complai H. Murray, a m ke and Seattle ) $1,000.000. Signo forzed AMu 0.0 r notes { merous other nezotlable documents. Commercial Traveler Killed by Hose | Wagon. Boston, Jan. 7.—Bewilde: d after the For | rapid passage in front of him of a fi ind. | engine. James Hazen Cone of German- | one | town, Pa., a commerci: I traveler, to- night w h folioy way to a small fire - vears of age. 7 Attell and Weeks Signed. Goldfleld, Nev., Jan. 7.—Articles of agreement’ were signed today by Abe | Attell, champion featherweight of the | world, and kreddic Weeks to flght thirty roand chawmplonship battle next Thursdoy evening, under the auspices of the “Tex’ Rickard club. Five ounce gloves 2nd soft surgifal bpndages are dilowable under the agreeffien:. Great Northern Train Derailed. Reliingham, Wash., Jah. « Point. The engine went over into the bay. The firemian is reperted drownad. Night Riders Are Found Guilty , Shadowed. BY SECRET SERVICE MEN BY DI- DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS TO DEGREE OF GUILT. JURY REPORTED LAST EVENING Six Men Guilty in Second Degree—Detail in Court Room. degrees, | President Rooseveit s n the night rider trials re- | The found Garrett Johnson, 7Tid Burton, Roy Ransom, Fr ed Pinion, murder in the first degres circumstances, Bud Morris and other defendants, guilty of murder in ond degree, punishment at_twenty penitentiary. the a2 communication the The punishme; ults obtained by} imprisonment, Motion for New Trial Will Be Over- | sverruled, sen- tence will be pronou k Court Room Was Crowded. had been out to consult the ‘defendants, but an agreement was reached quickly. Court was couvened at 8 p. m. and 2 thcughe to Le | | crowded, as m. the bailiff called e was needed at- 1our before in to 1 state of collapse cputies were ¢ verdiet, the for a poll, which was made, dismissed the inadvisable but the fixed y. intimating that | 1 mere form any ay, Defendants Took Verdict Calmly. defendants lke to take his boat | verdict thé ce turned to |} announced, and pieces State Visibly Disappointed. rrest that ‘has been made| e state expected a verdid ed (fideon Browning, | dan f'est cithier Of | panies or wouid be benefit 1 panies obtaining possession shot as he pvas being drawn up by the rops, No Demonstration. Wien thoe jury's reading announced, inded the court hous with revolver holsters walls e a | derstood to contain an account of the conversation there demonstration ers were quickly handeuffed and taken | military es report quietly court room The prison-Iman. It is known that ti The | compromise au- N NEW YORK, LOSS ABOUT $1,250,000, Lost—Several Citizens Injured. THREE FIRES | Firemen and ted tonight that the letter | DUt | he would addr aceidents | ject from his se oF | is known, however that he r al police department, but | first of the fires occurr 100 Hudson uble brick building, occupied b; Thomas J. Lipton Tea com: i & company and the 1 at 95 | i SIX-Story | indicated to frie mud The total loss ale grocery firm estimated at §500,000 WOrk | entire a short time on the Hudson stree; | ChiL double alarm was sounded | AL0F street, The fire | g eard Monday 1 ding at No, - number of an aiarm was rung stree: the fes received | further north. The fire was loft building occupied by manufacturers; ilar and difficult to fight ally wrecked > $600,- building had been For Amendment of Sherman Trust Act. Anti- | na. Salt | recently | announcem a committee to preparc the appointed ! other count aft of a | the beauty of the sc Beginning at 9 o’clock, the long line the amendment of the Sherman anti- | Of carriages and automobiles extending the | alorig the side and entire fr W an to emp’y for well as to nu- | National Civie Federation. | that the Canadian vear will spend $30,000,000 in co vork on its w. ond Vice President this week for Montreal to p alked in the way of a hose| ed the engine on 1ts | nd was instanily | the railway tors Given Committee Assignments. Washington, Jan ators were given today to oceupy them u Sixty-first congress is organize Republican Senato Alabama Prohibition Law Upheld. at | __FRIDAY. #ANUARY 8. 1909. PRICE_TWO CENTS. _ Senator Tillman RECTION OF PRESIDENT. INTERESTED IN “LAND CRAB” First Degree, Two | Senator from South Carolina Once of Sol- Characteristic Reply Later. v | Washington, Jan cret service Iman of S hddowed Senator was interested in an Oregon I ab,” and the result of that inv gation is now before the senate. | The information was contained Roosevelt in response to a re by Senator Hale to the heads of ice Exhaustive replies that they w a|been considered by a sui I be charged with the ng upon that portion o ent’s annugl mes rot | ers of cougress for the {of its uses, I+ | Curiosity “and Speculatien in Senate. wee ¥ on Presldent Roosev the | communication to Senator Hale | received at the capitol yesterday 1 about that it « 1ol | became nof not divulged known 1 vas the person further efforts to obtain infor concerning the charzos . n | without avail. they Owing to sey had advance information of t acter of the report which was 1o 1 senators hav was deémed | sent to the senate, it was found at the - { mar | made in th estigation of Seaaic r attack senate nearly a n land compar e as one of the ted in the concorn. an had | olution directing the attorney gene [ to prosecute suits against an railroad corporation which r land grauts in the laty sixties line from a_Cal point to P, {land, Ore. M sald that use of his name wae without auth a8 a result it is declared persons interested in the ame angered. the interested parties Roozeve] copies of letters ail written b nator ting that he 1 one of d by the grants in question. A this informution. it it Roosevelt dirscted a operafive to Investiga ; enator Tillman was alleged have had in the land cases. Rep&t Sent to Senate, port sent to ¢ igation made of Senator e prepared photograr Senator Tillman’s corresponden hether these exhibits were Senator Hale is not known. | | Tillman Says He Will Not Mince Mat- ters in His Reply. | or Till | me figured in the reports {late in the duy. He them took | to assure nlmselr that the concerning the mention of h ! were well founded, but he said Tk, It required about | that he would not make any statemen ours’ work to subdue the three | until the fact of the lich caused a loss estimated | had been officially promulgated mention of his name If from th mince matters in his reply also d 1 ose w! ¥ to express his v the situatior Senator Hale will proba atter before {1 appropriations at a me Saturday, and probable that | 1s s |IN HONOR OF THE House Receptions. most picturesque of the House receptions | that given in ho corps tonight. Di | social Washington | numbers One touch of nt usually adds to the rick | receptions was lacking toni the fact that China’s repre the svecial ambassador and | nese minister and their suites, are mourning because of the re ant | Of their emperor. Dipiomat ics, however, lent colo e nt of ite Houee grounds be | their hundreds of guests at the Canadian Pacific ‘to Spend $30,000,000 | entrance of tue brightly i in Construction Work. 7—It is announced i this | through the hall executive mansi@. Forming in up the steps to main floor, | room and to the blue room, where pre: diplomat binet officers, members of & one large ang velt. Mrs Walcort and Mr. an gate trespasses upon | C. H. Sherill & Tnember of the t?“" on fisheries and revision Pork Thief Jumgediinto River. 6 escape arrest today for ste stgrehouee, | ribs from a Msllts: Iy chifled tha Was 40 years of age Condensed_ Telé_;?iams British Steamer which was driven | haven iniet, in lower Chesape during the fierc successtully floated Thursday, The New York Branch of the MYSTERIOUS ‘DISAPPEARANCE ' " English Public Revel in Sensation Equalling that of the Steinheil Case in Paris has sent to th tional Red Cros: the Italian carthquake vietims, Express Train | 'ATTRACTIVE SPINSTER OF TWENTY-FIVE Baltimore and Oh sven passony PR S sy (T R : e g been Reported as Killed in Motor Car Accident, and Her Family Maintaining Strict Secrecy About the Affair, Causes Endless Speculation— Mi don Charlesworth Heiress to $2,500,000. Dr. Max West, | department of com a well know cconomist., died of { monia vesterday 4t his ome in V Violet Gor- —By direction of The Fort View Hotel at Winchestsr, rolina on the theory that possibly Response to Senator Hale's Request.| ! Missing Woman Had Picturesque Ca- Among the Documents Filsd T ¥ rom President | lesworth's picturesque ca- suggests that of Madame Hum- Reported Killed in Auto Disaster. Charlesworth, the Noiseless of Middietown, capital - ccutive departments for a statement ; by it of the | o¢ the activitios of secret se ix named defendants was left to erative: e | forwarded to Semator Hale by president. They have not been made | ic, and Senator Male aunounced d not be until they had | -committee mmittee on apnropriation of her godfather, whe 1et her $374,000, which was to be paid Senator Warren Thursday Reportea est, making the | Penmaenmawr, wig Story of Death Generally Disbelioved. Misy Charlesworth usually gave her Gordon and frequently alove, bill providing fc e chauffeur Jr., and Harry She operated hemy- upon the London stock exchange, cording to the Fvening News. She took a cruess last wa# sumptuously fur- overlooking A1l into the sea. antfeur gave the 1l authorities the members ker $50,000. eater, New York, now | place at Ir The Empire Th altiough her ntained The name of the sen- The Chamber of Commerce of York State T' empowering United States nd as a result the atmospher senate was surcharged with | ty and much speculation, YWhen MIGRANTS LEARN OF THE SICILIAN DISASTEH.i % CATHOLIC PRIEST ARRESTED. oung Woman Believed to Be Miss Testa Was With Him. Stricken With Grief When Told of the | Great Earthquake. i Stockholders of the American raph Company Persons Interested Take Revenge. roh, Newark mer Germania char- hen they learne arged with an- e time of his Hepburn R Iready introduced a re 8o Of vagrancy YOung womem Oreg Five Members of TOLEDO CATHEDRAL UNSAFE. Celebrated Gothic Edifice in Spain Mae Been Condemned. \ beara to have sent t6 President | 2 ices In Bu- 78,000,000 Wou' GRAVE CONTAINING 1,300 BODIES. One Hundred Feet Wide, 30 F —Earthquake Victims, affairs ye:- | ssengors dec > “IMPULSIV " ibishop Darrign DISCUSSED CABINET ULSIVE INSANITY. APPOINTMENTS. Alienist Dr. Manson on Witness Stand and blessed vide and thirty ecret coples President-elect Taft Has Satisfactory Talk With His Secretary of State. ‘ave haen eov- The prelate was whose lamen an was not aware that henediction preliminary and formative talked that he wonld welcome the op- commitiee o DIPLOMATIC CORPS. | Most Picturesque of the Official White The L’/'fij ot Jtaly- AND QUEEN OF The Queern o/']fa{tu president-elect 1e barrdoks Louse consider- wreeked edifices us o muny QUAKES IN SWITZERLAND. Severe Shocks Wednesday at Zermatt { in the lower corridor, the guests passcd Death of Sister Louisa Mary in Men« to the state dini A despatch received onvent of St. Margaret's Sie- announces the ident and Mrs, Roosevelt .assisted leave | by cabinet members and their wive o ent_the | sfood in the receiv {he executive committee of | then passed throush to the Spaciots cast room and wide main hall, where | . members of the supreme | In 2 Movement to the East—Centered (Episcopal) in Eastern Ontario. ng line. The guests | sorts of Switzerland. The direction of | Washington. whicih extends « ss. prominent government exer- | biican | utive officers and membe; as- antil | throng. I, | House guesis at the White House | Senator Page of Ver- | are Mr. and Mrs. Frankiln D. Roose- | mont was made chairman of the com. mittee to investi Indian lands and Plea of Guilty of Murder Degree Agreed To. in Second | as Stone. She 1o vear Right tton, bishop of the sister- to Boston in 1873 rong northeaste ather bureau established agreed to allow the second Ameshury, charg the murder ofihis wife, ar i kome of the latter's mother in Hyde Park, on Christmas day, 1607. come Dpefore Consul Cutting Unhurt. 1erior states, will uot change inatsrial Logal §nows hate occurred in midde and north Atlantie states, snow | Gri flurries Lave Drev: states and geheral snows have falle: su- | in the far horthwest. From Virginia northward th telegraphec the state ment today that the r 116 Vise Consul Cutting of 10 the scene of the Inidica- | quake disaster, are incornest. | with Wntheey aermina (o heip he middle | | Calais, Me. Jan. T.—in an_ attempt | ing pork 3 | Judge Edgar 7. Sherman in - | Fox plunged inie the St. (‘royx river today. | and was <o thoroug: Nhen a liguer licanse wus refused in | disd shortly aftar heing rescied, the local prebate courr Danbury. Thare is geod skating st lans Kenosia + states tomorraw, with comtinuing temperatures, the weund:d tiere