The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1895, Page 2

o - THE S FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895. Middletown Stage-Rob- bers Taken into Custody. FIERCE BATTLE RESULTS. Courageous Fight Made by Under Sheriff Brownlee and Posse. ONE ROBBER FATALLY SHOT. He Is Identified as Buck English,a Noted Highwayman—The Other Unknown. NAPA, Car., May 9.—The men who robbed the Middletown were cap- tured this morning about 10:30 at the sum- Smith, the Short Robber, Captured by the Posse. mit of the Berryessa Grade, about six miles from Napa, by Under Sheriff Brown- lee, District Attorney Bell, J. N. True and John Williams. One of the robbers is badly wounded, and Under Sheriff Brown- s and J. N. True were cratched. The robber will proba- Word was received this morning early that the robbers had camped on P. D. Grigsby's place in Berryessa Valley all day Wednesday, and had taken breakiast this morning in Charles Moore’s place, this side of Monticello, and said they would take the stage for Napa. John Gardner, the driver of the stage, sent word that if he ran across them he would ask them to ride in to Napa. On receiving this information, Under Sheriff Brownlee asked Messrs. Bell, Wil- liams and True, whom he knew to be cool men, to accompany him, and armed with ~ TUnder Sheriff Brownlee, Who Led the Posse. shotguns they took a double-seater and started for the summit of the grade, where they expected to ambush the robbers. On arriving at the summit the intention was to place the posse in advantageous position and wait for the stage to come along, but the stage came sooner than ex- pected, meeting the officers just as they drove to the top of the ridge. The teams were almost opposite when Mr. Brownlee said to Mr. Williams, who =at on the front seat with him, “There’s he fellows; stand them up.” The tall robber, who sat on the driver's box with John Gardner, recognized the officers and raised his gun at the same time Mr. Williams did and the two shots rang out almost simultaneously. The robber’s charge, which was bird shot, scattered considerably and a few shots took effect in the under sheriff’s and Williams’ legs, but the main part of the charge struck the butt of Mr. Brownlee’s gun, which he held between his knees while driving, and the shock threw him John Williams, One of the Fosse. out of the wagon. District Attorney Bell immediately got out on the other side of the wagon to get a better shot at the rob- bers and the short robber tumbled out of the stage and made for the brush, but was stopped by a shot from J. W. True’s gun, which peppered him slightly. He imme- diately turned and threw up his hands, shouting, *“Don’t shoot! don’t shoot!” The tall robber, after the exchange of shots, put a pistol to Gardner’s side and ordered him to drive on fast. The stage had been moving on slowly until that tiume, and Gardner whipped up his horses. Mr. Bell then dropped on his knees, took deliberate aim at the robber and fired ata distance of about fifteen yards. The rob- ber fell over on Gardner and then straight- ened up again, and the stage passed out of sight around a turn. Mr. Bell gave chase and followed on foot for a distance of 500 yards until the other officers, who had captured the younger Tobber, came along. The stage was soon overtaken. The tall robber had fainted and was leaning on Garduoer, and Messrs. District Attorney Bell, Who Joined the Posse. Brownlee, Bell and True brought the young robber into town, and Messrs. Bell and Williams came in the stage with the wounded man, The robbers were taken to the County Jail and Dr. Springsteen attended the wounded man. The younger robber was locked up. The taller robber is about 40 years old, and has been identified as being *Buck’ English, a man well known in the upper part of this county. .The short one is not known here. He is about 24 years old. He carried two pistols, but did not attempt to use them. The older relied on the shotgun altogether. District Attorney Bell was seen immedi- ately after bringing in the prisoners by the Cary correspondent. He said: *I wasin the Sheriff’s office when the message came from Gardner that the men would be on the Berryessa stage, and immediately asked Mr. Brownlee to be made one of the posse. We expected to reach the summit before the st got there and to station ourselves o as to have thedrop on the rob- bers, but as we came up one slope of the hill they went up the other, and conse- quently we were right on them before we had time to get out. “Just as the vehicles were opposite Mr. Brownlee pulled rein and said something to Mr. Williams which I could not under- stand, and immediately the firing com- menced. The tall robber, who sat on the left side of the front seat of the stage, shot first point blank at Mr. Brownlee and Mr. Williams, and Mr. Williams returned the fire almost simultaneously, firing two barrels. I started to get out of the wagon to get in a better position to fire and fell to the ground, but was up in & moment and as the stage was proceeding down the hill I called on Gardner to stop, and at the same time dropped on one knee and, taking aim at the robber, fired. The rob- ber immediately fell over against Gardner and then straightened up again. I fol- lowed down the road about 500 yards, call- ing on Gardner to stop, but he kept on. The wagon with the other officers then came along and we soon overtook the stage. I got in the stage and held the wounded man’s head and hands. Near the Heald place he threw something away which I then thought was a piece of rope, but as the gold watch which was taken in the robbery ‘is missing it may have been that. I did not shoot at the young fellow, but yelled to some of the others to look out for him. I was afraid the big one would take to the brush also and get away. “The young one threw up his hands’and yelled, ‘Don’t shoot!’ Then the ‘wagon with the officers canght up with me. I yelled, ‘He'’s done for, go down quick.’ I J. N. True, One of the Posse. was afraid I had shot Gardner also, as the stage jolted so it was hard to draw a steady bead. Several of the shot did hit him, but I do not think he is badly hurt.” Under Sheriff Brownlee said: “I got word last night from Sheriff McKenzie at Calistoga that the men had been tracked from Oat Hill to the Ztna mine, and that Sheriff Pardee and Constable Allen would go through Chiles Canyon to Berryessa, and that McKenzie would go to Winters and then up Putah Canyon in the direction of Monticello. I notified the Solona officers and also Detective Thatcher and Marshal Nash at Oat Hill, and inquired of Constable Phelan at Knoxville if he had heard anything of the men, but he had not. This morning as soon as I could call up Monticello, I went to the telephone and received information that the men had stayed all day yesterday on P. D. Grigsby’s ranch in Berryessa, and had taken break- fast at Charley Moore’s place below Monti- cello this morning, and had said they would take the stage for Napa. I also re- ceived Johnny Gardner’s message that he would take them into the stage if possible. I selected men to accompany me whom I knew would stand fire, and started out, intending to waylay the stage at the top of the grade, but the stage came along sooner than we expected, and we met it at the crown of the mountain. . “The stage was coming along at a hively gait, and we were opposite before we could stop. Isaid to Williams, who sat beside me, ‘There’s the fellows, stand them up.’ Before Williams could cover the robbers, the tall one, who had evidently recognized us, fired. The scattering shot wounded both Williams and me slightly, the main part of the charge taking effect in my gun- stock, which stood between my knees. The young fellow jumped out of the stage and stated to run, but a shot from True's gun stopped him and he surrendered. Meantime Bell had got out of the buggy and shot at the tall robber and was follow- ing the stage down the hill on foot. We turned around as quickly as possible and soon overtook the stage. “I asked the short fellow why they had taken the Napa stage, and he said that their plan was not to come all the way to Napa. More than this he would not tell. All of my party acted bravely, and I would not wish for better work from any one.” John Gardner was seen while on the operating-table in Dr. Hennessy’s office. The doctor had extracted several buckshot, but one was so near an artery that he thought best to let it stay, for a time at least. There were six wounds, but two were caused, probably, by bullets going clear through the fleshy part of the leg. Mr. Gardner said he took the robbers on at Capelle Valley, about half-way between Napa and Monticello, and that they paid him for their ride at Windy Flat, about eight miles from Napa. They talked in- cessantly on varioas topics, but did not mention the robbery. The tall robber sat on the front seat and kept the shotgun across his knees. The other one sat in the back seat. After the battle with the offi- cers the tall robber put a pistol to Gard- ner’s side and ordered him to drive up lively. The younger one jumped out. Four watches and $116 in cash were recov- ered. The rewards offered aggregate 3600: The young robber says that his name is Smith. Further than that he will say nothing about himself, except that his people are well-to-do, and he does not want them disgraced. It was learned to-pight that English— who was reared in Green Valley—spent one term in prison in 1876 or 1877 with a man named Turner, being sent up for cat- tle-stealing. English’s condition to-night is serious, and Dr. Springsteen, who is at- tending him, does mnot think he can live long. The first shot fired at him from the SAN JOSE COURTESY It Is Extended to the Visiting Forest- ers. GRAND BANQUET SPREAD The Supreme Representatives Elected at the Final Session. carriage did not take serious effect, as it struck his arm and created but a flesh wound. The second shot entered his left side, and two ribs were broken. District Attorney Bell’s first shot entered English’s thigh, and one of the District Attorney’s shots hit the driver, Gardner. The latter got four bullets in all in the thigh. They did not cause fatal wounds, however, and three of the bullets have been removed. Gardner is a brother of the County Treas- urer. BELIEVED TO BE BRECKINRIDGE. Identity of the Second Robber Oaught Near Napa. PORTLAND, Og., May 9.—‘“Buck” English, the stage-robber arrested near Napa to-day, is well known in Oregon, having served two terms in the peniten- tiary for highway robbery. His uncle, David English, was hanged many years ago in Eastern Oregon, in company with three others, by a vigilance committee for horse-stealing. English left here a week ago on the steamer for San Francisco in company with a man named Breckinridge, and Chief of Police Minto believes the sec- ond robber is Breckinridge. Breckinridge is well known in Portland and is about 24 years old. He has served a term in the penitentiary for burglary and was promi- nent in the Coxey movement last year. SITA BIRBIRA VTS Los Angeles Student-Tramps Cause a Sensation by Their Appearance There. Tales of Narrow Escapes on the Trip — Citizens Forced to Go Without Meat. SANTA BARBARA, CaL, May 9.—A sensation was caused on the streets to-day by the appearance of two bright young men in the guise of tramps, each with a pack and one with a pet rooster on his shoulder. Inquiry developed that they were Louis E. Beers and Sumner Hughes, the two plucky Los Angeles boys who are working their way northward, where they expect to enter the State University in Au- gust. Hughes, who has spent two years at the Northwestern University, Evanston, hasa kit of tools and sets up as a universal tinker. Beers, who will take a special scientific course, is an assayer, looking for business en route. The boys have had two adventures so far, being lost in the mount- ains below Ventura for sixteen hours with- out water. Beers came near curtailing his intended university course by being swamped in the quicksandsof the Santa Clara River. They started with a dog named Oceanicus Pacificus Neptunes, which was lost at Santa Monica, where- upon the Los Angeles Herald presented them with a rooster named Epictetus Eu- phrites Elastus Elias Confucius Petronicus Beers, called Pete for short, which serenely journeys on Hughes’ shoulder. Both young men are in fine spirits and aredoing well. .They leave Santa Barbara next Sat- urday. Few Santa Barbara Criminals. SANTA BARBARA, CAL.,, May 9.—Em- ilio Filesetta, under conviction for misde- meanor, and Robert Dempsey, convicted of petty larceny, were yesterday brought down from Guadalupe to serve sentences of twenty-five and sixty days respectively in the county jail. This institution,which houses all the county prisoners and those of Santa Barbara city in addition, now has only twelve prisoners. This is about the average maintained since the beginning of the year—an admirable showing for a county of Santa Barbara’s extent and pop- ulation. Four of the present prisoners come from thelittle town of Guadalupe, and are the direct results of railroad building. Slaughter-House Burned. SANTA BARBARA, CaL., May 9.—Sher- man & Eland’s slaughter-house in Syca- more Canyon, which supplied all Santa Barbara with meat, was burned at an early hour this morning, and all the butcher-stiops in town had to close their doors and the inhabitants go without meat. Loss, $1500 on building and fittings and $1000 on stock; insurance, $1000. The owners will immediately rebuild. The origin of the fire is unknown. ST R ¢ Vacaville Ships First. VACAVILLE, CaL., May 9.—The first car of green deciduous fruit to leave Cal- fornia for the season of 1895 was shipped from here to-day and contained 1750 boxes of cherries, consigned to the Earl Fruit Company and Porter Bros. Comtmy of Chicago, The next car will leave here on g‘&d‘y, and thereafter cars will follow Y. - Robbed @ Kansas Postoffice. SACRAMENTO, CAL., May 9.2To-day a man named W. C. Donnelson, alias W. IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE. New Rulings and Amendments as to the Subordinate Courts Adopted. SAN JOSE, Can., May 9.—The third day’s session of the Grand Court, A. 0. F of A., was opened in regular form this morning by Grand Chief Ranger C. P. Rendon. The following supreme repre- sentatives were elected: C. H. Bremer, Alameda; 8ol Peiser, San Francisco; C. P. Rendon, Stockton; W. A. Ryan, Los An- geles; Henry Ryan, San Francisco; Her- man Fisher, Sacramento; Samuel L. Waller, 8an Francisco; C. M. Dexter, Riverside; George Healing, San Francisco; A. A. Brown, San Jose; J. B. Lungate, San Francisco; J. C. Howe, San Francisco; R. Rasmussen, San Francisco; W. D. 8. Harrington, San Francisco. A strong effort was made at the morning session to reduce the salaries of the grand secretary and the per diem of other grand officers on the plea of economy, but the salaries were fixed at the same figures as last year. The grand secretary will re- ceive $2100 for the year, the grand record- ing secretary §50 for the session and other grand officers $5 per day auring the session. The office of grand auditor has been abol- ished. Thethreeauditors who were elected yesterday will serve during the ensuing year, but after that the examination of the books and accounts of the order will be placed in the hands of the auditing committee to be appointed by the grand chief ranger, and it is the intent of the new law that none but competent account- ants shall be eligible to such appointment. One amendment which will appeal par- ticularly to subordinate courts which are slow in paying their per capita tax was adopted. After this no delegate will be seated in the Grand Court if the subordin- ate court which he represents is not clear upon the books of the Grand Court five days before the session of the Grand Court. Heretofore the courts have been given a great deal of latitude in the matter of pay- ing per-capita tax, with the result that the Grand Court treasury has been pretty nearly drained when the expenses of the annual session were paid. Several im- portant amendments relating to the mode of procedure in cases of appeals were adopted. This is one point on which the present laws have been defective, but, sirangely enough, the matter has been overlooked until now. The method prac- ticed in the matter of taking appeals here- tofore has been very unsatisfactory, and, in fact, the law on the subject has been so vague that almost any construction could be place upon it to suit any particularcase. The new amendment is the result of considerable study by the legal lights of the order, and through their energy and zeal the forestic laws of California are now the most comprehensive and at the same time the simplest laws of any fraternal in- stitution. This evening the grand officers attended a banquet which had been pre- pared in their honor at Turn Verein Hall. Covers were laid for 250 guests, and there was a bountiful supply of the solid and liquid good things of this life, which, it is needless to say, were thoroughly enjoyed and demolished by the visitors. Music and numerous toasts and responses, inter- spersed with the popping of corks, was the order of the evening, which was kept up until the rosy flush which precedes the coming day reminded the visitors that they had some much-needed sleep coming. During the evening a letter from Herman Cohn, one of the leading lights in the or- der, was read, in which the writer con- veyed his regrets that he was unable to be present, and extending an invitation to all the newly elected officers to a grand recep- tion to be given in their honor in San Francisco in the early part of the coming week. DOCTORS AT DEL MONTE Meeting of the California Ho- meopathic Medical Society. Vacancies in the Censor Board Fllled and Officers Elected. DEL MONTE, Car., May 9.—From the appearance of the Del Monte lobbies and porches, the observer would think that it had been turned into a medical institute, as doctors are flying hither and thither, attending the different meetings of the nineteenth annual session of the California State Homeopathic Medical Society. The society is represented by about fifty mem- bers from various parts of the State. Yes- terday the convention met in the ball-room of the hotel to hold their first meeting. Alter a communication from the president and the reading of the minutes of the pre- vious meeting, which took considerable time, as the last session occupied several days at San Jose, the vacancles in the board of censors, to constitute a quorum, were filled. Those appointed for the ensu- ing year were: Dr. C. W. Bronson, Ala- meda; Dr. James W. Ward, San Fran- cisco; Dr. J. M. Selfridge, Oakland; Dr. William Boericke, San Francisco; Dr. E, ‘W. Bradley, Oakland. After these appointments, the secretary, treasurer and directors’ reports were read by the respective officers. They were highly approved, the reports of the treas- urer and secretary showing a large in- crease in both membership and finances, Election of officers was then in order, and the following were elected for next year: President—William Simpson, M.D., San Jose. First vice-president—C. B. Currier, M.D., San Francisco. Second vice-presi- dent—Dorothea Lummis, M.D., Los An- geles. Secretary—Eleanor F. Martin,M.D., San Francisco. Treasurer—C. L. Tisdale, M.D., Alameda. Board of directors—J. M. Selfridge, M.D., Oakland: Sidney Worth, M.D., San Francisco; A. C. Peterson, M.D., K. Crow, was arrested here for a $2000 Postoffice burglary at Colville, Kansas. San Francisco; C. L. Tisdale, M.D., Ala- meda; William Boericke, M.D., San Fran- cisco. Board of fexaminers—C. S. Tisdale, M.D., Alameda; Sidney Worth, M.D., San Francisco; E. R. Bryant, M.D., San Fran- cisco; A. C. Peterson, M.D., San Fran- cisco; George H. Jenks, M.D., 8an Fran- cisco; James E. Lilienthal, M.D., San Fran- cisco; George H. Martin, M.D., San Fran- cisco. Alternates—Guy E. Manning, M.D., San Francisco; George W. Palmer, M.D., San Francisco. The officers being elected, Leonard Pratt, M.D., of San Jose read the first paper on “Comparative Clinical Medicine.” “A Case of Purpura Arthriticia” was then ably discussed by George H. Martin, M.D., of San Jose. This met with much appro- val and was highly interesting. The following are the subjects discussed during the four meetings beld thus far: Under obstretrics were: ‘‘Ergot,” Dr. Sid- ney Worth; “Midwifery,” Dr. SusanJ. Fenton, Oakland; ‘“Prevention of Painful Labors,” Dr. E. W. Bradley, Oakland. Under gyneecology were: “Surgical Treat- ment of Uterine Fibrands,” with report of twelve successive cases; ‘A Year’s Re- port of Surgical Work in the Sanitarium,” Dr. James W. Worth, San Francisco; “Some Proving on Women,” Dr. Susan J. Fenton, Oakland: *“Use and Abuse of the Curette,” Dr. Carrie A. Goss, San Jose. Under materia medica and provings, whichwasthe most important thusfartaken up, many valuable papers were read, among the ablest being *‘Arsenic; Its Uses and Limitations in Practice,” by Dr. Eleanor F. Martin of San Francisco. Dr. H. R. Arndt of San Diego and Dr. William Boericke of San Francisco read papers on the same subject, which was also widely discussed. The members are working attentively and expect to finish to-morrow. To-night a large excursion drove around the Seventeen-mile drive. VALUKBLE GEMS SEIZED. Santa Barbara Customs Offi- cers Make an Important Discovery. An Attempt to Smuggle Jewelry on the Bark Duke of Argyle. Went out this evening to do some shopping and did not return, and it was learned that the couple went to S8an Jose and procured a marriage license and were married. The girl is 2 member of the Episcopal church at Santa Clara and never had any bad companions of either sex, and her in- fatuation for such a character is considered very strange. Her mother is prostrated with grief. WSS TACOMA SILVER MEETING. Money Raised to Continue the Campaign in the Northwest. TACOMA, Wasa, May 9.—A rousing silver meeting was held this evening, the sentiment of which was similar to that which threw the tea overboard in Boston harbor. ‘The President Cleveland-Roths- child-Morgan syndicate and the gold barons generally were denounced and there was unanimous expression for free coinage. Permanent organization was effected and money raised to continue the campaign in the Northwest for free silvet. ANCESTRY OF DURRANT Not of Austrian but English Origin, Says the Grand- father. Still Belleves His Grandson to Be Innocent of the Crime Charged Against Him. LOS ANGELES, CaL., May 9.—A clip- ping from a San Francisco paper stating that Theodore Durrant, the alleged mur- durer of Minnie Williams and Blanche Lamont, was of Hungarian ancestry, was shown to Thomas Durrant, grandfather of the accused young man, to-day. The old man read the article and re- marked: “That is news to me. My grand- son is of English descent. I was bornin England myself, in the village of Holt, County Norfolk, about: ten miles from Sandringham Palace, the Prince of Wales’ country seat. So far as I know, all the Durrants are English. The family name, when accented on the last syllable, sounds French, but properly pronounced, the ac- cent is on the first syllable, which makes it quite English. The story that I came to “| this country from Austria is absurd.” SANTA BARBARA, CaL, May 9.—A little before noon to-day Deputy Customs Officer Fred Forbush of this place and Oi- ficer Johnson of Los Angeles, who, with Deputy True, had been sharing the regular watch upon the bark Duke of Argyle, made a discovery that bids fair to be important, and get some one into trouble with Uncle Sam. The bark arrived in port from Newcastle, | N. S. W., more than a week ago, with 1300 | tons of coal assigned to S. B. Williams, Mr. Durrant aaded that he left England and settled in Canada in 1845, being lo- cated in Toronto for many years, from which place the family emigrated to Cali- fornia in 1882. He came from San Fran- cisco to Los Angeles about two years ago. “No, I do not consider my grandson guilty,” said the old man. “Knowing the boy so well, I do not think it possible that he could have committed such a crime. There is strong circumstantiai evidence against him, [ admit, but not strong president of the Santa Barbara Gas Com- pany. Captain Golightly proceeded to | Los Angeles and secured his necessary | papers before commencing to discharge | his cargo, which he began doing on the 6th. | A vigilant watch was kept upon her and | all her men, after the custom with ships | hailing from foreign ports where dutiable | goods might be smuggled ashore. In/ this case certain news received by the customs service made the officers per- haps more vigilant than usual, but at first nothing rewarded their watch and they were beginning to think that the in- formation they had received might be un- founded. The Santa Barbara harbor is not thronged with shipping, and any suspicious move- ments by day or night would be sure to be noted. This forenoon, however, one of the men on board the ship, a German, whose name has so far been with- held, and who is variously reported to have been a deckhand and a stowaway, made preparations to go ashore. This man, | who had the jewels in his possession, is said to be a musician by profession and to be engaged to play in the Santa Barbara city band, whose leader, Wiedenbeck, is said be his personal friend and whom l)e was | preparing to join. Officers Johnson and Forbush stepped up and opened his valise, in which they | found two mysterious-looking packages, one of which was sealed. Opening the other, their eyes were dazzled by the prismatic colors and flashing lights of a quantity of opals, apparently the precious Australian gem. Realizing that the discovery might be an important one they decided not to open the sealed pack- age, except in the presence of their chief, and Mr. Sjoberg, deputy collector of San Pedro port, was at once wired to come up. He arrived on the evening train, but as the two packages had meantime been placed in the County National Bank for safekeeping he decided to postpone any further investigation until 10 o’clock to- morrow, when the bank reopens. No one yet knows the value of this seizure. The precious opal is a very valuable gem and the unopened package, which is large, may prove to have dia- monds or rubies init. At the same time it must be remembered that no expert hasyet examined the gems, and if it should prove that they were merely fire opals they might not be worth $10 a pound, as Mr. Sjoberg wisely observes, for Mexican opals of this character are now mined in quantity and are a drug in the gem mar- kets of the world. It is also possible that the remaining package may contain gimcracks for the children of the Teutonic gentleman’s friends; nevertheless everybody here is on the tiptoe of expectation as to the result of the opening of that mysterious sealed package. The man who undertook to bring the pretty stones ashore is not yet under arrest and will not be until the value of his packages and the question of their dutiable or non-dutiable nature is settled. Nevertheless he is under close surveillance, and everywhere he goes he is closely shadowed by a myrmidon of the law. In this connection it is interest- ing to know that if the gems are of purest ray serene there is a duty of 10 per cent upon the uncut and 25 per cent on the cut jewels. In their hasty inspection of the opened packages the deputies counted seven cut gems, the rest being un- cut. At all events one thing is certain, however this prosaic, rational, modern world may reason against effete supersti- tions, there is one man who will believe that the opal is an unlucky stone to his dying day. ELOPED WITH A SPANIARD. Miss Moore of Santa Clara Forms a Strange Attachment. SAN JOSE, CAL., May 9.—This evening Miss Maude Moore, an estimable young lady of Santa Clara, 20 years of age, eloped with Jese Ramon Arguello, a dissipated man of middle age, who was divorced from a former wife nine years ago. He has a daughter at Los Angeles, who isas old as the girl he eloped with. Arguello has no occupation and was known as a lounger around saloons. Miss Moore is the only daughter of C. E. Moore, the City Engineer of Santa Clara. Her parents knew that the girl was in- fatuated with Arguello, and did all they enough to convict him. I have yet failed to note any circumstance to connect him directly with the killing of either of the girls. If it can be proved beyond a doubt that he is guilty then I hope the law will take its course. I would not raise my hand to saye him from the gallows if I be- lieved him guilty.” ‘When asked who he thought was the guilty party if his grandson was inno- cent, Mr. Durrant said, undoubtedly some one connected with Emmanuel Church and as familiar with the premises as Theodore, but who it was he could not conjecture. If the detectives had ar- rested all parties who had access to the church and not confined their investiga- tion solely to his grandson the real cul- prit might have been discovered. Theodore Durrant’s father was in Los Angeles several months ago trying to in- terest some capitalists to join him in es- tablishing a shoe factory here. He had a plant at Oakland, which he desired to re- move to this city, but did not receive the proper encouragement. He was after- ward obliged to sell it, and the elder Dur- rant says his son has already bankrupted himself in trying to defend Theodore. KLLED BY A TRAMP, Aged Woman in the Carson Valley Murdered by an Unknown Man. The Body Placed on a Bed and Set on Fire— Sheriff’s Posse Organized for Pursuit. CARSON, Nev., May 9.—Yesterday after- noon, between 1 and 4 o’clock, Mrs. Sars- man, an old lady living near Cradlebaughs bridge, about fourteen miles from Carson, in Carson Valley, was brutally murdered by a tramp. Her husband went out in the field about 1 o’clock to irrigate and spent the afternoon about half a mile from the house, leaving her knitting by a window. ‘When he returned at 4 o’clock he found smoke issuing from the bedroom, and, rushing in, found the bed in flames. He called for his wife, and, hearing ne re- sponse, proceeded to extinguish the flames with buckets of water and then went about the premises to find his wife. He finally discovered blood on the floor where he had left her sitting and traced it to the bed- room. Lifting up the charred bed he found the dead body of his wife, with her head crushed in with blows of a hatchet and the lower part of the body scorched and blistered by the heat. Sarsman at once drove to a neighbor’s bouse and gave the alarm, and soon the report of the murder spread over the valley, A horseman was sent to Genoa to notify the authorities, and the Sheriff started in pursuit of a tramp, who, about 4 o’clock, had been noticed hurrying along the road to Gardnerville and continually looking back as if in fear of pursuit. The man was in jail here not long ago and had a very bad character. At the present writ- ing a Sheriif's posse are reported on the trail._following the tramp into the Pine EI\:; e:l({mmtains, but they have not yet re- —_—— GOVERNOR BUDD TALKS. Scott One of the Leading Candidates for the Position. SANTA ROSA, Car., May 9.—Seen in his box at the Athenzum to-night, during the Roncovieri concert, Governor Budd was questioned as to the truth of the re- SR C utant-ge: of the Natiol Gm}rg. He u]adid: . % “Ihave made no appointment as yet, but will do so durin, t e course of nyeva week at the time fdivide the National Guard into brigades, as provided by the new law. T have not decided upon the man for ndjuhntfimanl. but the appoint- ment will go south of Tehachapi and to one of four men I have in mind. The: are Major Driffel, Chalmers Scott, Colonel Corcoran of San Diego and_Major A. W. Barrett. The latter is an old soldxelg‘lnnd Bad charge of the Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica. Heisin no sense a candidate. e e Tulare Baptists Meet. FRESNO, CAL., May 9.—The Tulare Bap- |- tist Association convened here L_his morn- ing and will hold a three days' meeting. About seventy-five delegates representing could to prevent the marriage. Miss Moore churches in six counties are in attendance. Y | dyers, FOUGHT FOR MONTHS, Close of a Remarkable Drawn Out Legisla- tive Session. DELAWARE'S DEADLOCK. Over Two Hundred Ballots Cast Without Electing a Senator. DUPONT CLAIMS A VICTORY. Pecullar Tangle Left for the United States Senate to Finally Unravel. DOVER, Der., May 9.—The General Assembly of Delaware adjourned sine die at 3 o’clock this afternoon without having selected a successor to Senator Higgins, al- though the Republicans claim their lead- ing candidate, Colonel Henry A. Dupont, was legally elected. The matter will prob- ably be taken to the United States Senate for a decision. The two hundred and eleventh ballog since the deadlock began, four months ago, and the last of the session, was taken a few minutes before 3 o’clock. It resulted: Henry A. Dupont (R.) 15, J. Edward Ad- dicks (R.) 4, Edward Ridgely (D.) 9, Tun- nell (D.) 1. During the day the Democrats filibus- tered with the object of preveating ballot- ing and when the State House clock rang out the hour of 3 and sounded the death- knell of the legislative session of 1895 the clerk was in the midst of a rollcall on a dilatory motion made by a Democrat. As soon as Governor Watson (D.), who, by reason of the fact that he was Speaker of the Senate before his elevation to the gubernatorial chair upon the death of Governor Marvil, presided over the joint session, announced the sine die adjourn- ment, Speaker of the House McMullin (R.) arose and formally declared Henry A. Dupont elected United States Senator. This action had previously been agreed upon by the Republican leaders. The Delaware Legislature is composed of twenty-one Representatives and nine Sen- ators, sixteen being a majority on joint ballot. The Republicans claim that when ‘Watson, by virtue of his position as Speaker of the Senate, succeeded to the governorship upon the death of Governor Marvil one month ago, the number of Sen- ators was reduced to eight, and therefore there were only twenty-nine on joint ballot and that fifteen votes constituted a ma- jority. On the other hand the Democrats and Governor Watson claim the law distinctly declares that the “Speaker of the Senate” shall become Governor. Therefore if Mr. Watson withdraws from the Senate he ceases to be “‘Speaker of the Senate” and consequently loses the governorship. The Senatorial question is likely to oc- cupy a large amount of public attention for months to come. Whether the Gov- ernor has a right to appoint is a disputed question. If he has the appointment will be only until the next Legislatnre, whick meets in January, 1896, unless sooner called together by the Governor. This latter contingency is not probable, how- ever. J. Edward Addicks has made good his threat uttered at the very beginning of the contest to prevent the election of a Repub- lican Senator from Delaware if he could not secure the prize for himself. Colonel Henry A. Dupont, who will make the contest for the senatorship, is a member of the famous Dupont family, who have been manufacturers of powder and other explosives in Wilmington, this State, for over a century. He is the son of the late General Henry Dupont, and was born at Brandywine Banks in1836. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, and was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, gradua- ting in 1861. He entered the Fifth United States Artillery and served through the Civil War. Colonel Dupont has been a Republican ever since the organization of the party. LIT- TLE We haven’t told yeu much about our Boys' and Childrer’s Depart- ment—it's merits are se FRO- CKS FOR LIT- TLE FEL- LOW -S BROWIN BROS. & CO., 121-1283 SANSOME ST., Bet. 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