Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 19, 1912, Page 1

\ i , VOL. LIV—NO. 227 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912 DROPPED FfiR NSHIYM.TY TO PARTY| (Cabled Paragraphs ‘Places of Ropublican Eational Committeemen From Three States Declared Vacant fnsslmnéu,s;of,‘r-nnfis OTHERS ACCEPTED ‘Mamber From California Expelled For “Diloyalty to the Re- ‘ publnm?uty”—-NMdCommtteenowFreeofBufl of Mooulnflum—-w Roosevelt Meets Pequot In- dmandTlMWflhThcmmTheanwnhnme. — New Y t. 18.—Th rm mm :m resignations of its ll!l- nuota, Oklahoma. nnd“?‘ 'D-n m New J met Virginia are . Disloyalty to Republican Party. In flm or‘wamm Bdwards; of/ the chief walked forward and shook hands with Colonel Roosevelt. “What school?” the colonel asked. “Carlisle,” the chief replied. “That's fine, by George!” said the | colonel, “there wag a boy at the Olym- who beat them all” At this the Indians wagged their eads and smiled ,for the colonel had used a bit of Indian slang which they I lived among the Indians and | know a good deal about you,” and he |thrust an arm into the air with two ers held apart like a V. ian sign langudge,” he sald, vt * means jack rabbit.” e Indians wagged their heads. Then the colonel drew his forefingers |across his throat is if he were cut- it. ng “Sioux Indians,” he said, and the |Indians agreed. lican ticket in the turned out to be M Mu of, Kansas, N %qu- ornia. He added-that m me is in the courts, the Nebraska case soon will be, and that a special committee wil arrange for a new or- ganization in California and will place Taft electors under some other name than the republican party. Roosovelt Electors: Asked to Retire. A resolution was adopted calling up- on the electors of Nebraska and Kan- sas, which were named as republicans, but who are now for Rooosevelt, to at ‘once retire. The resolutlon stated that the position of elector is a position of tx-u::th au:d that th:re m:n owe.a duty to the state as well as “W—' Secretary Reynolds said ‘wfler the meeting that everything was done. in complete harmony and the vote to oust disloyal committeemen was unanimous in every case. Moss Still Prdunu. Acting District Attorney Moss con- tinued toddy the examination of wit- nesses at the secret John Doe inquiry to determfne whether the police sup- pressed any incriminating letters re- ported to have been found “Gyp” and “Lefty’s” flat. He refused to say what progress had been ‘made. Gaynor Cengratulates Police. Mayor Gaynor foday sent a letter to Commissioner Wgldo congratulating him upen the arrept of all-the persons charged with complicity in the Rosen- thal murder and attacking ‘“the dis- Wict attorney’s office.” PEDDY AND THE INDIANS. Bull Mooser Talks to Them in Their Sign Language. Albuquerque, N.; M, Sept. 18.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt saw many of the Indians of New Mexico today, and be- fore he started for Colorado tonight, he had struck up .a neighborhood ac- quaintance with most of them. Most of the day was spent in the run across the state, and whenever the train stopped the Indians/ ang .Colonel Roosevelt studied each other. The colonel's arrival in Albuquerqne toward the end of the day brought him back, he said, to the call of duty and he took up fthe -campaign 'once more. Colonel Roosevelt spoke to a large crowd on the plaza here. Hé appealed especially to the “Spanish Americans to support the new party and to turn their backs on the bosses.” It_was the Pueblo Indians whom Colonel Roosevelt met wherever he went today. Col. Cecil Lyon of Texas, major domo of the Rooseyelt. train, sent word ahead to the Indian villages along the way that the colonel was coming through and the Indlans lert thelr little white hutls on the clitfts and came out to meet him, The largest gathering of Pueblos was at [.aGuna, a plcturesque setile- ment of low while buildings on (he side of the hill with .a Cathollc church and a monument to.the ‘early Cathollc missionaries to' the Tndlans g over all. There were per- haps a hundred Indians walting for !h. Y.r.ln Others sat on the.red rocks above and looked, down on the scene with impaseive faces. A former stu- dent of the Carligle Indian schoel, Frank Simons, chlef of the Indians at LaGuna, was jn front to do the Bepors. As £00n a8 iha tralp siopved | the chief. | A large | Colonel Roosevelt in Albuquerque Was | boy was sent to Hall's office and found "1do, who was a ser ms | “school children h |fiags and cheered. At the university, sty He then put his hands with fingers A outstretched beside his head, like huge ears. ' This was supposed to represent |the head of a wolf peering over the top of the cactus. “Apache,” he called out. “The ‘ru.t white father knows,” said part of the crowd that composed of Mexicans. George Al t of Ci )| when he spoke to those in his audi- <fence who knew only Spanish. Colonel Roosevelt in Colorado to- morrow will speak in La Junta, Rocky Ford, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and : Denver. to |\ kY WILSON TO STUDENTS. “'v'rnor Makes an Address at Uni- versity of Minnesota. Bt. Pa Minn., Sept. 18.—Gov. w’wu.on struck the trail of ‘Roosevelt for the first time in . today when he whirled of and President George H. Vincent intro- duced vernor as a “man who had stigma of the doctrinaire . ic life, a scholar of poli- tics, a scholar on poMtics, a scholarly It was .penlu day of the univer- _,lu the former president:of looked into the upturned student faces, he said it was indeed a familiar sight. The governor made no poli speech, but emphasized the es as university president— tudents of this country did take themselves seriously, pre- ferring to be boys, rather than attack- lng the serious problems of life. He argued that most undergraduates waited for their diplomas before starting in life, when they should have a “rui . start” as commencement d&! t the mnoundl a green mead- ew in the residence district of Min- neapolis, the governor in the longest speech of the day declared that the national campaign was not one of sonalities, but issues. He pald tribute to President Taft, and when on an- other occasion the crowd construed that the governor had referred to Col- onel Roosevelt he quickly changed the impression. TWENTY YEARS FOR ASSAULTING WOMAN Judge Greene Imposes Stiff Sentence on Waterbury Man. ‘Waterbury, Sept. 18.—Harry Rob- inson, who has been on trial in the superior court in this city for the past three days, on the charge of ripe, was found gullty by the jury this after- noon and sentenced to serve from twenty to twenty-five years in . state prison . by Judge Gardiner Greene. © Robinson was accused by Miss Clara A. Brezinski of New York of brutally assaulting her in Hamilton park on the afternoon of July 23, choking her into ‘unconsciousness. Prosecuting At- torney John P. Kellogg characterized the crime as the worst that he has tried in the fifteen years pf his du- ties as prosecutor. USED WOOD ALCOHOL IN STARTING A FIRE Kitchen Helper at Greenwich Country Club Dying of Burns. Greenwich, Conn., Sept. 18.—Frank Klaus, & kitchen helper at the Green- wich Country club, is dying in a local hospital as the result of burns Ye- celved while lighting a,6 fire at the club house today. When the wood in the stove did not burn he poured on wood alcoho]l with the result that the flames communicated to his clothing. Beéfore ¢o-workers could extinguish the flames heg was terribly burned. He is 36 years old. Steamship Arrivals. At Glasgow: Sept. 17, Numidian, from Boston. At Queenstown: Sept. 18, Dominion, from Philadelphia. At Copenhagen: Sept. 18, C. F. Tit- gen, from New York. At Naples: Sept. 18, Argentina, from New York. At Cadiz: Sept, 17, Amtonla T.opez, from New York. At Genoa: Mept. 18, Carpathia, from New York. At Havyre: Sept. 18, France, from New York. Sable Island, Sept, 18.—Steamer Athinai, Piraeus for New York, in communication with the Marconi sta- tlon at 5.18 p, m. No positlon given. Probably - dock Friday afternodn. Steamer Reported by Wireless. New York, Hept, 18.—8teamer Pan- nenia, Naples for New York, 325 miles esast of Bandy Hook at noen. Dock 430 p, m, Thpreday, eh he was wont to make in | w! American Yacht Damaged. Valparaiso, Chile, Sept. 18.—The American yacht Edris, which left New York December 12 last on agvoyage to Ban_ Francisco by way ol’a!he straits of Magellan, put into the harbor of Valdivia, Cape Horn, today, in a dam- aged condition. Dublin Man Gets Ameriodn Bride. London, Sept. 18—Miss Edith Allen Brooks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Walter Brooks of New York, and Ar- thur Ronald Nutting, eldest son of Sir John and Lady Nutting, of Dublin, were marrieq today at St. George's church, Hanover square. Another Turco-ltalian Battle. Rome, Sept. 18—The most sanguin- ary engagement of the war in Tripoli was fought yesterday near Berne, a town on the Mediterrafi@an coast, 140 miles northeast of Bengazi. The Ital- ians lost 61 men killed and 118 wound- ed. Turke and Arabs left more than 800 dead on the field. Forty-one pris- oners, including an Arab chief, fell into the hands of the Italians. FAMILY TROUBLES RESULT IN A DOUBLE MURDER Arthur Hall Slays Brother and Wife at San Francisco. San Francisco, Sept. 18.—Arthur Hall, known hers as Amthur Knabel, shot his brother, James J. Hall, in the downtown office late today, then went to his victim's & ents, fifteen blocks away, killed . James J. Hill and c suicide. o ‘l‘he tragedy brought the first dis- closure to friends of the family here of the relationship of the two men. Family quarrels are said to have caus- ed the shooting. Arthur Hall, who was 20 years eld, was an employe of the St. Francis Im- portation company, a subsidiary con- cern of this city. James J. Hall, 35, ‘was manager of the company. The el- der Hall was slain while telephoning to the office of the hotel. The conver- sation was interrupted by the smap of the receiver on Hall's end. “Hall has hung up,” said the hotel clerk to his assistant. After a wait of a few minutes a bell- Hall dead on the floor, a bullet wound near his heart. Meanwhile the slayer ‘was approaching the Hall apartments on a trolley car, having left the com- v's offices immediately after shoot- ing his brother. A few minutes later occupants of the apartment house heard two revolver shots in Mrs. Hall's room. They entered and found the bodies of Mrs. Hall and her brother- in-law on the floor. Mrs. Hall had been shot through the heart and Hall through the head. No outery had been heard and there were no indications of a struggle. Tt is believed the Hall brothers con- cealed their relationship to avoid diffi- culties with the hotel management ‘which might heve arisen on account of ;.‘h: ::u- Hall giving employment to thier, _Arthur Hall had been yed by the compeny about a year and a balf. ARTFORD STRIKE ASSUMES " MORE SERIOUS PROPORTIONQ. THree Hundred Workmen Join the 200 Already Out. Hartford, Sept. 18—The strike at the Colt Manufacturing company’s plant assumed more serious proportions to- day when 300 more employees walk- ed out making a total of about 500. It is said that all of the strikers have Jjolned the National Association of Ma- chinists. The latest walkout of the employees ig the result of an ultimatum on the part of the company, positively de- ing to meet acommittee of ' the to arbitrate the wage scale. lent C. F. Robinson issued a| ied statement this afternoon in he said he would deal with the men as individuals only. The strikers held a mass meeting late this afternoon and voted not to return to work, unless the company recognized a' committee selected from their ranks to confer on the wage question, In additfon to the walkout today, sixty assemblers met and asked the compeny for an increase in wages. The company has as yet issued no reply | ury to the demands. WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST YALE GRADUATES LIVING. Charies K. Attwood, Ci George A. Bryan, DI Hartford, Conn., Sept. 18. Charles K. Attwood of Newington, until his death one of the oldest liv- ing graduates of Yale and a member of the class of 1843, dled at the Hart- ford hospital Wednesday morning. He had been in the hospital two weeks for mate of Rev. } treatment. Local interest attaches to the death of, Mr. Attwood from the fact that in Hartford next to Rev. George A. Bryan of Nor- wich Mr. Attwood was the oldest liv- ing member of the class of 1843 at Yale. Mr. Attwood was born in Newington at the old Attwood homestead on Dec 24, 1820, a son of Josiah and Pru- dence (Kellogg) Attwood. His parents were natives of Newington and of old New England ancestry. He was the oldest of seven children, his sister, Mrs. John S. Kirkham, of Newington, being the youngest. The other five are dead. Mr. Attwood entered Yale college when he was 20 years old and graduated with honors. CIVIL ENGINEER CHANDLER HAS PAPER AT CONVENTION. Read Before New England Water- works Association at Washington. ‘Washington, Sept. 18. ‘With about 300 delegates present, the New England Waterworks association met Wednesday in its 21st annual convention at Washington, D. C. The convention lasts three days. The vis- itors were welcomed by District Engi- neer Commissioner Judson. Charles E. Chandler, civil engineer, of Nor- wich, Conn.; Cyrus S. Babb, chief en- gineer of the waterworks storage com- mission of Maine, and Prof. Frank P. McKibb, Michigan university, were the authors of papers read at the ses- sion Wednes@ay. CARS RUNNING IN DULUTH, Strikers, However, Insist That Vic- tory is in Sight. Duluth, Mich, Sept. 18.—After May. or McCuen and Chief Troyer of the pulice departinent had testined before Judge Dibell in Duluth's public owner- the Duluth Street an’‘adjournment wag ship sult agalnst Railway company, taken. The strike is still on, and the union carmen claim a victory is In sight. Car service was greatly improved yes- twrday, and this morning It was nor- mal. Last night some minor disturh- ances nccurred, In Superlor, Wi, dynamite was placed on the track, but was discov- ered In Ume Lo prevent damage, Deputies Fired Upon by Miners LABOR TROUBLE IN COPPER DIs- TRICT OF UTAH. ,WAGE RAISE REFUSED Deputies Driven Away While Attempt- ing to Draw the Fires—Deputy Wounds Strikers’ Picket. Bingham, Utah, Sept. 18.—Bullets greeted 86 deputy sheriffs who at- tempted to draw the fires under the boilers of the great copper mines here today. From behind breastworks they had thrown up since morning, strik- cause several other concerns refused them Condensed Telegrams A Paris Woman Has Established a ne]\v fad by wearing a gem-set mon- ocle. Indications of Bubonic Plague have Lb:eg discovered in the Hawaiian- is- . l. Government Officials yesterday be- gan an investigation of an alleged “milk trust” at Chicago. An Epidemic of Ra is feared in Washington by the health autherities. Four ohildren were bitten by dogs in one day. John W. Skeele, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales any, died in his home in Madison, N. J, aged 59 years. Joseph A. Toyo of Ogdomburg, Was killed and G. H. Rolland of Montreal fatally injured, in an automobile ac- cident, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. “Suiocide Point,” from which many persons have leaped to their death, Ihu been cut away by employes of I‘.he ing miners who quit work today be- | Nlagara state reservation. the Utah Copper company and ! The Conference of Leading Virgin- an Increase in wages, fired upon the {ian negroes at Norfolk was a land- officers and drove them from the mine |Slide for Roosevelt, only two of the works. None was injured. Deputy, Wounds a Picket. Earlier in the day, howevér, while armed striker pickets stood guard at the approaches of the various proper- ties, ing shots into the air, one of their! number was wounded by Theo. Schweitzer, a deputy. The deputy had ordered the picket to ceasg firing. Up- on his refusal, Schweitzer shot the miner in the wrist. Only One Copper Mine Working. Only one of the great copper mines here, that of the Utah Apex mining company, continueq operations today. The company signed a contract with the miners a few days ago. The Great Utah copper, one of the most pro- ductive mines of the world, the Utah Consolidated, the United States, Bing- ham-New Haven, Ohio Copper, Bing- ham mines and a score of lesser mines, the Bingham & Garfield railway and the ore traffic on the Copper Belt branch of the Rio Grande railway were all closéd tightly. Strikers All Carry Weapons. Four thousand men, mostly foreign- ers, were idle and “almost every idle man bore a weapon of some sort. They gathered in sulky little groups dis- cussing their grievances. Appeal to Governor. Following a conference with mine, officlals today, Sheriff Harp of Salt Lake county wired Governor Spry that hig force of deputies could not handle the situation., The governor abandoned a speaking tour and hur- ried to Salt Lake City to make a personal investigation. Saloons have been closed by the order of the sher- iff. DROWNED IN QUARREL OVER PAIL OF BEER Mrs. Rellly Stumbles from Barge Into New Haven Harbor. New Haven, Sept. 18.—Mrs. Susan Reilly, aged 29, the wife of Capt. Mi- chael Reilly of the barge Blue Belle, was drowned in the harbor tonight when she fell from the barge. Her 9 yvears old daughter saw the accident, ang cried for help, but it was too late. The body was later recovered by George C. Martin, an engineer. Captain Reilly was locked up-on the charge of drunkenness, following the recital of alleged disputes told by his daughter. According to the story the little gir] told the police, her fa- ther and mother quarrelled over a pail of beer. Her mother angrily walked away and accidentally stum- bled’ into the water. The girl pleaded to be alloweq to stay with her father at police hudquanera. and the request was granted. GOVERNMENT VAULTS ARE WELL PROTECTED Watchmen Who Guard Them Equipped with Latest Type Revolvers. Washington, Sept. 18.—Any burglar with the temerity to visit the treas- of United States will risk a fusilladge from modern firearms. Bherman Allen, acting secretary of the treasury, today ordered from the sec- retary of war fifty of the latest type of revolvers with which to arm the watchmen of Uncle Sam’'s mlilions. Their old revolvers will be discarded. ‘With steel-covered vaults, a deli- cate systéem of burglar alarms which in case of trouble would summon half the police in Washington, armed watchmen, end soldiers of the regular army at Fort Meyer, Va, only a cou- ple of miles away, Mr./ Allen believes that the government's wealth is safe from thieves. SLAP HUNGARIAN MINISTER. A Cabinet Member Attacked in the Chamber of Deputies. Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 18.—The riotous scenes which occurred at the opening of the Hungarian parjiament yesterday were repeated this morn- ing when the sitting of the chamber 3 of deputies was resumed. The opposition members concentrat- ed their attack upon Herr Beothy, the minister of commerce, who was struck in the face several tlmes, and whose friends succeeded In rescuing him only after he had fallen to the floor. Before the beginning of the sitting, the greatest excitement prevailed. The opposition deputies appeared in the chamber in full force, and as soon as the government deputies began to come in the uproar began, the new arrivals being hailed with a storm of abuse. An opposition member shouted the word “scoundrel” at Beothy. The lat- ter thereupon made a step toward his adversary and asked: “What did you say?” Immediately the oppositionists rush- ed at the minister, striking him with their fists until he fell to the floor. After a struggle the cabinet officer was finally rescued by friends. B RAISED PRINT POSTAGE FREE. Lower Rates for Publication Lodges, Unions and Socie Washington, Sept. 18.—Postmaster General Hitchcock has ordered free carriage through the mails of perfodi- of cals issued in raised letters for the blind, provided no subscription s charged and no advertlsements car- ried. Departmental rules regarding the “cent a pound” pustage rates to publl- cations of fraternities, lodges, (rades unlons, literary, historical and sclen- tifie socleties also have been relaxed. The postmaster general has granted cheap postage rates on such a period- ical If It has a 50 per cent. bona fide eirculation, unless such publication is issued primarily for advertising pur- poses. Unprotected Ends of Hatpins are forbidden by order of the prefect of the Rhone department, France, Wi o SR B e e P 2 present being against him. Frederico Lanno died yesterday at the New Haven hospital from injuries suffered when he fell from a house ;-oot and landed on an .iron . picket ence. Gordon Kyle, a Freshman in the Middletown, Ohio high school, lies at the point of death at his home at Kyle's Station, Ohio, as the result of a hazing. District Attorney Pelletjer has prac- tically completed his grand jury in- vestigation of the Lawrence dynamite cases and a report will be made by Saturday. €. A Kellar of S8an Antenlo, Tex., was elected grand sire by the Sover- eign grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows by acclamation in Winnipeg, Man. No Reason Except that of tempor- ary insanity could be given by mem- bers of the family yesterday to ac- count for the suicide of George W. Hughes of New Haven. Thomas R. Prolen of Waterbury was fined $100 and costs and sen- PRICE TWO CENTS |Secretary of Waldo Involved DETECTIVE ASSOCIATES WITH POLICE GRAFT Him ON TRAIL OF LAWYER Detective Followed Alleged Graft Col- lector to Secretary’s House—Latter's Subsequent Conduct Significant. New York, Sept. ll—ln’vmfim today by the aldermanic committee of the affidavit made by Captain John Reith that $1000 had been demanded of him as the price of his promotion during Commissioger Bingham's ad- ministration developed testimony as- sociating Winfield R. Sheehan, secre- tary of Commissioner Waldo, with.a man_“supposed to be getting graft® Detective Kelleher's Story. The testimony was given by D: J. Kelleher a private detective who he had been assigned in December by Alfred G. Johnson, the qmlor- sheriff whom Reid accuses affidavit of havmf demanded the uooo from him, to follow a lawyer named Nortow. This man “by common ru- mor” he sald was supposed to collect police graft from his office at 116 Broadway. He trailed No; he testified to Sheehan's house. Sheehan discovered him there and kept him locked in while he sent for two de- tectives. L Kelleher Questioned by Sheehan. Kelleher said he was not ' but declared that after a few days met Sheehan by appointment the commissioner's secretary him: *“What have you got on me?” “I told him” said the 'l'.nfi “that I had nothing on him, but that I did have something on George C. Norton and that I had found out that Nor- ton had been collecting graft.” Sheehan Said He'd Get Johnson. “Did Sheehan ask whom yoy werse working for?” asked Emory R. - ner, counsel for the committee. “] said Yes;” replied Kellehgr. “I thought I was working for A} John- to tenced to sixty days In jail vesterday | son.” for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. A Charge of Assault with intent to kill has been placed against Rosa Ta- marino of New Haven. It Is alleged that she threw her infant child down a chimney at her boarding house. A Message Asking for $23,000 at once to meet the committee’s heavy demands for campaign purposes has been sent out from the prohibition nldo’n! headquarters im Chicago. A Pearl Breastpin which 18 year old Olgan Martin swallowed twhile hastily dressing for a party two years ago, was removed from the girl’s lungs yesterday at the Lutheran hospital in New York. ° Rev. Father T. J. Duffy, aged 72, for 18 years rector of St. John's R. C. church at Wellsburg, W. Va, was crushed to death in the North Wheel- ing hospital yesterday as he entered an elevater. Charles Smith Was Arrested al Huntington, W. Va., yesterday, charg- ed with being one of the party who iynched the negro, Walter Johnson, at Princeton, W. Va., on the night of Beptember b. William Bennett, employed as a brakeman by the Trolley Express com- pany, fell between the cars on the Derby line near Maltby lakes yester- day, and was crushed to death under the wheels. Responsibility for the Drowning of eight naval apprentices at the train- ing station at North Chicago, Ill, is placed \upon Chief Gunner's Mate W. E. Nogus, in a report to the navy de- partment by Captain Fullen of the station. The Germ That Causes the disease from which hundreds of horses have dieq recen tl{ has been found, and the sclentists the Kansas agricultural college beliave they have developed a serym that will render horses im- mune from the disease. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Giken were married in Albany on August 17 and went to live with a friend in Amster: dam named John Frieman. Two weeks later Frieman and Giken's wife de- parted for the west with all of Giken's savings, $500. They have just been apprehended at Aurora, Il Roy O. West, Chairman of the Ilii- nois state republican committee, yes- terday issued a statement in which he declared that LaFollette men controll- ed the progressive party in Illinois and because of obligations to the head of the democratic state ticket were throwing strength fo the democratic vote. IN RED TAPE 36 YEARS, An Edison Suit Finally Dismissed in Highest Court. Washington, Sept. 18.—After taking thirty-six years to work its way through the lower courts to the msu- preme court of the United States, the suit of George Harrington of the Dis- trict of Columbia and Thomas A. Bd- ison of New Jersey against the At- lantic & Pacific Telegraph Co., and Jay Gould of New York, over fele- graph patents, may be dilmlned with- out a hearing. Attorneys for the cor- poration and the Goulds today filed a request that the case be dismissed “because of lack of jurisdiction.” U. 8| MARINES IN NICARAGUA. 1,200 Men Start for Masaka, Revolu- tionist Town. San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, Sept. 18.—Rear Admiral Willlam H. South- erland, commanding the American forces in Nicargua, left Corinto yes- terday for the capital ,according to advices received here today, to con- fer with the American minister at Managua, George T, Weltzel. A force of American marines and bluejackets, numbering 1200 men, has left Managua for Masaya, a city in the hands of the revolutionists to the south of the capital. JAPANESE IN SUICIDE PACT. Fifty Meet in Colorado to Draw Death Lot, Grand Junction, Col, Sept. 18.—Fifty Japanese met secretly last night:to draw lots to select one who should commit hara-kirl, as a manifestation of brief for the late Jauanese emperor. The police were notified and broke “What did he say?™ ; “Sheehan said: ‘That will be all right; we will get him,” replied the detective. Sheriff Johnson’s Denlal. Police Captain Bernard J. Kellsher, a brother of the witness testified that Commissioner Waldo had said last June: “I am very sorry that a mem- ber of your family should haye he on the one of my men under s The Kellehers were stand by Johnson, who denied M had ever demanded from “I saw him a wuph of Johnson, “and then he ::h:d j&b could b:oml e money pay. was & fodi if he thought he coul General Bingham. Ha stuck to me and came*to see me until I was sick of his facs, of him and I told him to get out of my sight and to keep out.” Admitted Investigating Norton. “But dom’t you think it was funny that a police lieutenant should call that way?’ asked Mr “Didn't you know that )% were paying for the promotion? 't you hear that?™ “I probably heard that, But passed it over. 1 didn't th any more about it,” replied the witness, Johnson admitted that # had Norton investigated “out curjosity. Reith Sticks to His Story. Captaln Reith’s testh was In the main an elaboratio: 5 the iished charges in his amdavit wm were produced at the beginning proceedings by Commisgioner (o. Reith_swore he “had received word” that Johnson wanted to see him and that upon visiting Johnson informed him that his name was about to be certified for promotion to Commis- sioner Bingham. Johnson then toek him, he sald, to see Thomas J. Has- sett former secretary to Mayor Me- Clellan, as the man “who 'could do the business for him.” t down the door of the room where {he meeting was held. Two of the leaders were arrested and confessed the sui- cide agreement . Asked to Put Up $10,000. “Hassett asked me some questions.™ testified the witness “and later I got word to call at the home of Johnson. I went there and Johnson told me he had done all he could for me and that I would have to put up $10,000. Upon failing to put up the money, Reith said, he was passed over on the eligibility list. He went to Commis- sioner Bingham to find out why he said and was told by him that he had “the right to promote whom he wish- ed and he would promote him when he got ready.” Job Was Worth $10,000. “Would you have been willing to have paid $10,000 for promotion?” asked Mr. Bruckner. “Most assuredly.” “How could you have gottem the $10,000 back?” “I don’t know but the job was worth it. You don’t have to work nights. You can get plenty of sleep.” Bingham and Waldo Testify. General Bingham, the next witn testified that he had not Reith “simply because he would not make a good police captain.” Commissioner Waldo was asked why he had not turned over Reith's afi- davit, which was made in February, te the District Attorney. “I was unable to substantiate it* explained Mr. Waldo. RAILROAD SECTION MAN KILLED BY A FREIGHT Two Others Injured While Working on Tracks Near Hartford. Hartford, Sept. 18.—Nuinz{ Gotta of No. 54 Market street was inmmv killed late this aftermoon being struck by a freight train, l.nd Cletro Venezia was so seriously m{unfl that he was removed to a hospital. The men were with a section gang, and when the freight came into sight they stepped aside and were struck by a step, that protruded wider than usual. Gotta's skull was crushed and Venesia recalved Internal Iinjuries. A third member of the section gang had his arm broken. CHICAGO PATROLMAN TOOK 80-CENT BRIBE Stripped of His Star and Denounced as Disgrace to Department. Chicago, S=2pt. 18.~—Patrolman Fred . Brandt, a member of the police de- partment since 1907, for taking a bribe of 50 cents, was today stripped of hjs star and termed a disgrace to the police force by Assistant Chief of Police Herman Schuettler. Brandt admitted that he tonk fifty cents from & peddler after arysting him for ery- ing his wares, and, then allowsd bim to go free