The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY -~ 7, 1896. THE OAKLAND SAFE-WRECKERS ARE BOYS.| > Burt Willmore and Abe Majors Confess Their Many Crimes. A STARTLING RECORD. Burglaries That Have Caused Terror in Oakland, Ala- meda and Berkeley. DYNAMITE IN THEIR POCKETS. The Boys Were Captured After They Had Blown Up a Safe Yes- terday Morning. Burglaries. January 13—Henry O'Neil, 560 Caledonia avenu January 14—Mason's candy-store, 2128 Shat- tuck avenue. January 14—George H. Stricker, 2130 Shat- tuck avenue. January 15—Miss McClellan’s, Eighth and Castro. Januery 18 — Market-street Congregational Church. January 21—G. G. Newhall, 1561 Broadway. January 21—E. C. Dyer, 510 Thirteenth Street. 2 January 21—C. L. Bell, 1316 Adeline street. January 22—L. Rothjen, 1416 Thirteenth street. January 24—R. G, Williams, 737 San Pablo avenue. January 24—Mrs. C. L. Lundberg, 741 San Pablo aventie, January 31—Akesson & Co., Alameda. January 31—Alameda Creamery. Alameda, January 31—Silverberg’s store, Alameda. January 31—Hall's candy-store, Alameda. January 31—Vorburg’s hardware-store, Ala- meda. Jan: y 31—Hauch & Co., grocery, Alameda 1—Ernst Bros., grocery, Alameda. 31—H. L. Waller’s market, Alameda. February 1— Maison de la Mode, Blake ‘block, Washington street. February 1—New York Tea Store, Blake ‘block, Washington street. February 1—Oakland Shoe block, Washington street, Store, Blake Now it is believed that the storiés of valu- able presents made to Ina by Majors were true and that the boys have been leading a life of crime for a long time. The lads were arrested about 5 o’clock by Officers Kyte and Powers and Special Officer Doolan at Washington street, near First. The officers thought they were newspaper carriers. “Who are you fellows and where are you going?” asked Powers. ~We are paper boys,” replied one of them. “Which way are you going?” was the next question. “We are looking for a paper route,” was the reply. *You are looking for the man who has the route, are you?”’ “Yes,” was the reply. Then Kyte ordered the lads to hold their hands up, and as soon as he put his hand in Majors’ inside pocket he found sticks of dynamite and a cartridge to whicha fuse was attached. A further examination produced a 45- caliber revolver, a jimmy, some small fuse and a pocket fulloi coin. Willmore was then searched, and on him was found a revolver and some coin and some nitro- glycerine cartridges. The patrol - wagon was called into service and the boys taken to jail and put into separate cells. For half an hour the prisoners refused to say anything. They would not even say yes or no to certain questions. After Sergeant Hodgkins had tried in vain to obtain some information, Detective Wil- liams came into the room. Hodgkins then said: “Now, I want you to settle a bet be- tween my friend Williams here and my- self. He claims that you did not go out of the building when vou biew up Girard’s | safe, and I claim that you did.” *“We went outside,” said Majors, raken off his guard. Little by little they told the officers of their long list of crimes. They went from one store to auother and repeated their tale with as much indiffer- ence as if they were reading from a book. They accounted for everything that has been done in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley during the past months with but three exceptions. For a time the officers were inclined to doubt the story of the boys. They looked so little like criminals and so much like boys who think the dime-novel blackguard a hero that it was thought the lads were talking for the sake of making themselves Ixmtorious. ‘When asked where they had Burt Willmore and Abe Williams, the O akland Boy Burglars and Safe-Crackers. {From a photograph taken for * The Call” in the jailyard yesterday.| February 2—Gilbert’s cyclery, Telegraph and Bixteenth street. February 2—Woman’s Exchange, Twelfth &nd Clay streets. February 2—H. Roberts, Telegraph avenue #nd Seventeenth street. February 2—Charles Murphy, 501 San Pablo ®venue. February 2—Fletcher & Kuhnle's, 441 San Pablo avenue. February 2—Salt warehouse, Sixth and Wash- ngton streets. February 3—Charles Blohm, Lorin. February 4 — Lund’s cyclery, Fourteenth Btreet, near Broadway. February 4—B. Rudrick, 709 Webster street. February 4—J. Hill. 776 Jefferson street. Robberies. January 21—William O’Malia in West Oak- land. January 21—Robert Walker in West Oak- Jand. Jenuary 21—E. C. Dyer on Washington street. February 3—Henry Young on Telegraph ayenue. Safe-Cracking Operations. January 20—Pioneer Soda-water Works, ‘Thirteenth and Webster. January 21—Smallman & Cummings, East Twelfth street and Eleventh avenue. January 24—National Ice Company, Eleventh street, near Franklin. January 28—Jenkins’ sawmill, East Twelfth | street, near Fifteenth avenue. February 3—Anson Barstow, Thirteenth and Franklin. February 4—F. R. Girard, Fourteenth and Broadway. February 5—Oregon Improvement Company, foot of Franklin street. February 5—Butler's cosl office, Webster street. OARLAND OFFICE SAN. FrANCIsco CArnL, 908 Broadway, Feb 6. % Oakland’s. safe-crackers azre two boys. Early this morning they were arrested as they were returning from blowing open a strong box on the water front. Since being placed in cells they have confessed, and their record makes one of the most remarkable chapters ever fonnd in the life history of boys of 16 years of age. The boys are Burt Willmore, 17 years of age, and Abe Majors, 16 years old. They are respectable looking boys, neatly dressed, were well known in a large circle of friends. Both lived with Mrs. Will- more, the mother of Burt. For six months past various ugly stories have been told of the affairs of the boys and the Willmore family, which consists of Burt, Mrs. Will- more and Ina, aged 13. These stories were reported to the Chief of Police, but as they were mostly based on the testimcny of Abe Majors, and as he was not considered veracious, the police did not verify them. | hidden their plunder they told the officers that in a tool chest in the rear of the Will- more house, at 1264 Webster street, was the proceeds of the Girard robbery and of the Sessions robbery in East Oakland. Captain Fletcher and Sergeant Hodgkins immediately proceeded out there and se- cured the booty. The chest was packed out to the street and a passing milk wagon hailed, on which it was conveyed to the City Hall. | When the chest wasopened it was found that it contained several sets of drills, a number of articles of jewelry which had been taken by the burglars from the differ- | ent places that they visited, five big sticks of dynamite, a bottle of chloroform which they probably intended using in case they found any person sleeping in the places they visited, two boxes of pistol cartridges, a charge of dynamite all fixed up with fuse ready to use and two files. There were five assorted drills and three ratchet braces. Two of these braces were made s0 that the shoulder could be used in hold- ing them up against anything, while the third was the ordinary kind used about machine-shops. ‘When the stolen articles of jewelry were taken out of the chest by the officers the young fellows told where they secured each piece. Those which they said that they secured from Girard’s consisted of a ladies’ gold watch, one gold bracelet, two gold chains and two stick pins. There the silverware taken consisted of five pearl- handled knives and a half dozen small silver spoons. The young fellows main- tained that that was all that they got there and they also said that they obtained only $55 1n cash instead of $400. Two gold watches were also found in the chest. One of these the young cracksmen said they got at Mason’s canay-store in Berkeley and the other at Hauch’s ‘grocery-store in Alameda. At most of the places they only secured a small amount of cash. Nothing at all was secured in any of the safe jobs except that at Girard’s. The money obtained at the latter place was hidden behind a picture in the room occu- pied by the youne fellows at the Willmore residente. The boys told the officers of this and it was found there. During the day W. G. Palmanteer, vice- president of the Central Bank, called on the lads with F. R. Girard, whose store was wrecked Sunday morning. They asked the lads about the missing bank- books and bank stock. The boys assured their callers that the papers had been burned and Mr. Palmanteer said that he thinks the boys told the truth. 1 g i Girard’s Piano-Store, Which Young Willmore and Majors Wrecked With Dynamite. (Sketched by a “ Call” staff artist.] As Mr. Girard had stated that his safe was robbed of over $400 in money and $700 worth of jewelry, there was quite a little discussion between Majors and the piane man. “If you say I took more than the police found in my room, you tell a lie,” said Majors. Mr.Girard said that the property was his wife’s and that he was not sure of the amount, but believed it to be more than the sum mentioned by the boys, which was $55. e THE BOYS’ STORY. Calmly Chewing Gum, They Talk Freely of Thelr Many Mis- deeds. Majors gave his name to the officers as Ralph Ford, but this afternoon he was identified as Abe Majors, a son of a man | who was hanged in the County Jail about ten years ago for murder. Sheriff White called at the prison this afternoon, and was the first to recognize Ford. “Why, Majors, is this you?’ said the Sheriff. *“I guess it is,” said *‘Ralph Ford.” **Well, I'm sorry for you,” said the Sheriff, who at once told Chief Lloyd of his prisoner’s identity. Burt Willmore chewed gum as he sat on a bench and talked to a CaLn man. The lad was apparently unconcerned, and smiled as he recounted his .amany adven- tures. Nota sugegestion of shame could be seen, and neither did he seem proud of his achievements. He simply talked | away as if it was the most natural thing in the world that a boy of 16 should arm himself with a ‘huge revolver and dyna- mite and go forth and wreck safes. “I first thought of leading the life of a robber,”’ said Witlmore, “when I got out of work some weeks age. I did not think it would be wrong, as I thought I must make a living somehow, and Majors told me it was a pretty good thing. I worked for Mason & White, the candymen, since 1891. I worked there steadily until the finding of the Blythe diamonds, for which Mr. Mason gave me his note for $100.”" The diamonds, it will be remembered, were deposited with Mr. Mason for safe- keeping several months ago. One day they were stolen from the safe and Will. more found them in a dry-goods box out- side Kahn’s store. His story was doubted at the time, but to-day he swore that it was the truth, ‘‘After Mr. Mason gave me the note,’”’ continued Willmore, “I took $60 outina bicycle, and as I thought I needed a vaca- tion and as Mr. Mason had me badly scared I took a five weeks’ trip into the country. After I came back I again went to work for Mr. Mason and had charge of the Berkeley branch store. I injured my hand about Thanksgiving and since then I bave not worked steadily. About Christ- mas Majors lost his job and he came over to our house and stopped with us. *‘I was he who made the first proposi- tion to go into this business. It looked like a good thing the way he painted 1t, so I consented. Our tools we got at differ- ent places. The dynamite we stole from a quarry out New Broadway, and the other tools we got at different places. He bought them. One of, the drills he got in Ala- meda, I know, and paid $4 for it. The other was purchased in Oakland, I don’t know where, and cost $2 50. The fuse and caps came from San Francisco. “‘The first place we tackled was Mason’s branch store in Berkeley, the one in which we had previously been employed. Every- thing worked nicely and no one disturbed us. ‘We saw two merr outside for a minute, but we kept quiet and they did not see us. We opened the safe and found $24and a gold watch, which we took. We went into the barber-shop next door, but did not find anything of value. “Then we went to Alameda. We went over about 11 o’clock at -night and went through stores until nearly 50’clock in the morning. Daring that time we entered “We began to work on the piano-store about 11 o’clock last Monday night,” said Majors. *‘We walked around the Central Bank building several times. Only the day before we decided there ought to be money in the safe, and we decided to try it. We walked around, looking for a lad- der, and found one padlocked in the rear of a paintshop on Fifteenth street. We pried it off and stood it up against the wall. “The first thing we did was to open the door in the basement, and then we pried open the door which led into the bicycle basement. I went into the workshop, and Ford ran upstairs and took the money from the till. Afterward I went upstairs and we monkeyed around for a little while. Then we came down and opened the win- dow which led into the basement of the music-store. The trapdoor was unlocked, and we went upstairs., Ford bored the holes in the safe ana putin the charge while I peeked out the front. I don’t know the force of dynamite or anything. Majors always did all of that; he seemed to know about it. It wasabout half-past 3 when everything was ready. We had not seen a soul, and worked all of the time. Majors lit the fuse and we ran. ‘We climbed over the wall and were run- ning across the vacant lot when the explo- sion occurred. We ran right on and jumped over the fence of a house facing on Franklin. We hid there until nearly 5 o’clock. Then I went out and took a walk around the block, and looked in the front of the store. “Everything was all right, and I went back after Ford. Then the two of us went into the storeagain. Ford took a hammer and knocked the knob off the inside door and put a little dynamite in. We only went down in the cellar this time. After the report we came upstairs and found $55 in a little drawer. There were two small jewel-cases, which we took, and found in one of them some silver knives and little spoons, and in the other a watch, one bracelet, a little chain with a blue locker, two little stick pins and an earring. The $400 must have been in Girard’s mind. ‘When we read the papers we had to laugh at the exaggeration.” “Last night's work was a neat job, and netted us about $80. ““We went to the theater last night with Mrs. Willmore and Ina,” said Majors, “‘and after we got home we pretended to go to bed, and after we thought Mrs. Willmore and Ina were asleep we started out toward the water front. We came to Butler's hay and grain place down on ‘Webster street, and I forced the door with my jimmy. I opened the two doors of the safe and then broke open the little box in the inside. Ididn’t count what we got, but think it was about $70 or $80. ‘‘After that we went over to the coal office on the wharf, and I forced a window and we got inside. This safe was locked, and in attempting to force off the knob of the safe, I broke our wrench. We then forced a window in the back office and were in there when we heard the officers come in at the front. We got back in the warehouse in the rear of the back office, and then forced a side door and got out onte Franklin-street wharf. - *‘We did not dare to come out upon the street there and so ran tothe end of the wharf. We saw a. man there who appeared to ve a watchman on a barge. We asked him if there was a spare skiff around, tell- ing him we waunted to go out to a vessel in the stream. He showed us a boat and we gotinto it and rowed down below Broad- way. Wecrawled up on the wharf there and hid until after 5 o’clock. We then started up Broadway, turning down Firsg to Washington. When we got to Fifth strect we saw the officers standing on the oppesite corner. ‘We turned diagonally across ihestreet, and as we did so heard the officers talking to- gether. They seemed to be discussing whether they should stop us. Finally one called to us and we stopped. One of the men asked us if we were paper boys, ana we told him that we had been down to the nine stores, but did not get much. We took a gold watch, some shirts and a few. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Roal ABSOLUTELY. PURE Baking Powder lilt.lg things. We walked from Alameda, coming by way of Twenty-third avenue. ““Our next burglaries were those out on San Pablo avenue. We worked nearly all night but did not get much. ‘“We also robbed the millinery-store, the coffee-store and attempted to loot the shoe- store on Washington street. We used a piece of crowbar to pry open the windows. The papers printed a list of nearly every- thing we took, all of which was of little value.” Abe Majors, when brought out, talked yery volubly about the Girard safe cracking. wharf trying to get a paper route. ‘“‘As they came over to us, one of the policemen had his pistol 1n his hands, and when another commenced to search us, the second one drew his pistol. As soon as they found our pistols they put the hand- cuffs on us. o ““We intended to leave to-day for the in- terior of the county. This was to have been our last job.’ “The first time I ever thought of safe- cracking was when I saw & story in a San Francisco paper several weeks ago about how to work safes. It had pictures of all the tools necessary, and told how the most expert robbers had cracked safes, and I +| were adjudicated satisfactoril, read it carefully and thought it was not such a risky job after all. After a talk with Willmore we decided to try it, and commenced at Berkeley about three weeks ago.” S MRS. WILLMORE. Was She Aware of What the Boys Who Lived With Her Were Doing? Mrs. Willmore is a devont church woman and was very much shocked to-day when the officers visited her house. She said she did not think the boys would like any one taking away the tool chest. The police can hardly believe that all the raids of the boys could have been undertaken without her knowledge. “The boys used to go to bed at the nsual time every night,” said Mrs. Willmore to< night,” and I never heard them go out. One morning, about a week ago, I was rather surprised to see them undressing in their room early in the morning. I looked in their window from the back yard and saw that they had arranged the pillows and bed-clothes so that if any one looked in it would appear as though the lads were in bed. “When the officers came this morning the bed was arranged that way. 1 asked the boys about it, but they did not give me any explanation and [ thought no more about it. After we read the piece in the papers about the Girard robbery the boys took us to see the place. I never saw any ‘guns or burglar tools in the house and never saw the boys with any money. The whole thing is a mystery to me and I can- not believe the boys did such work.” Detective Holland can hardly believe that the boys did so much work without exciting suspicion, and although he does not think Mrs. Willmore really knew what the lads were doing, he thinks she must have seen enough to justify her in making an inquiry, Abe Majors is the son of Mrs. Wagner, who, after the death of Majors, married J. ‘Wagner. Three weeks ago Wagner was.in the Oakland Police Court for neglecting to pay alimony. He has since disappeared. To-morrow morning the furniture owned by young Majors’ mother will be put on the sidewalk by the Sheriff for non-pay- ment of rent. When told of her son’s dis- grace to-night she went into hysterics, and, as she has been a victim of nervous prostration for several months, this last shock will, it is feared, destroy her reason. RS E THE MOTHER ACCUSED. Chlef Lloyd Says He Belleves That the Mother Directed the ¥ * Boys. Chief of Police Lloyd said late to-night: “After a careful investigation of all the facts in the case I am convinced that Mrs. Willmore knew of all that was going on. The family has been living for three months on little or no regular income, yet they have been well supplied. ‘“The boys have dressed well, and we have found out that Mrs. Willmore has enticed Abe Majors from his home for the past six months and has induced him to live with her instead of with his own mother, who was starving. “There does not appear to be the slight- est possible explanation that can account for all that was in the house without Mrs. Willmore knowing of it. Just what action { may be taken in the matter I cannot tell at present.” Mrs. Willmore left her home this after- noon, taking her daughter with her. The police could not locate her to-night, and they regard it as a suspicious circumstance that she has not visited the jail all day, although knowing that her boy was in custody. THE HACKMEIER HOTEL. George Gruenig Becomes Proprietor After Arranging for the Paymont of Its Debts. The old and well-known Hackmeier Hotel, on Edady streey, which was con- ducted by Adam Hackmeier for some fifteen years, has passed to other ha.nd.. George Gruenig, a hotel man of consider- able experience hitherto, formally took charge of it yesterday. The previous day he saw that some $3000 or $4000 of debts to a com- mittee of the creditors of the Hackmeiers. The old hotel has falien into rough lines in recent years. So long as Adam Hack- moier ran it it flourished and made money steadily. He had formerly been in the same business on Bush street and after- ward was proprietor of the Eastern Hotel | yon Pine street, opposite Goldberg, Bowen & Lebenbaum’s. Many of the patrons which Hackmeier had at these places he took with him to Eddy street. _ He added many more aiso and did a large. safe and so1id business. But when tne old man died some two years ago, and hie rons came into the management, dif- ferent modes of transacting business were adopted and changes unavoidably fol- lowed. The hotel is large enough to accommodate over 200 people. The Rosenbaum brothers, the e¢cmmission merchants, are the.owners of the building. George Gruenig, the oew lessee, will, it is stated, make a number of improvements, but none in the way of building. e Temple Emanu-El Services. Rev. Dr. Voorsanger begins this evening a course of lectures on “The Constitution, the Schoolhouse and the Church.” The first lecture- will be entitled, “The Question of | Church and State in the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention anl the First Congress.”’ The public is cordially invited. 00DS ARE MANUFACTURED Poolroom Men Foil the Ingle. side People but Violate the Law. Prices Are Doctored Up in One “Joint’’ and Sent Broadcast as From the Track. The keepers of the downtown poolroom dens, despairing of getting the odds and results with any degree of accuracy from Ingleside track, hit upon a novel idea yesterday, and the gullible public was fleeced as usual. The these sharpers is an institution for the manufacture of odds. The plant is located in the poolroom of Henry Schwartz & Co., and as fast as turned out the quotations ‘were sent to the other rooms by means of “pony wires.”” To illustrate how thelaw is being openly violated and the public buncoed a few examples of yesterday’s sharp practices are all that is necessary. In the opening race the “commission joints” had Burns up on Roselle, while in the actual race he was piloted by Lamle. Zamar was carded to be ridden by Shaw, while Garner brought him in winner. Coady was chalked up on their boards to ride Viking, while Chorn had the mount, and so on with the other starters. Of the eleven jockeys posted up in the dens there were seven errors. As apother instance of how the credu- Jous are imposed upon, Ida Sauer was quoted in the roomsat 15to1 in the sec- ond race, while as a matter of fact the mare never start\d, in the fifth event, when Fullerton Lass, who was aiso scratched, had 12 to 1 chalked against her name. The latter entry was scratched at the track four minutes after 3 o’clock, and the poclroom-keepers posted the odds opposite her name at 4:37 o’ clock. .Again, as a sample of a flagrant viola- tion of the betting law the following will instance: At 3:25 P. M. the rooms marked | up the “‘track” odds against the startersin the second race, with the result of the first race not yet received. The first race at Ingleside track was run at 2:37 . M., just two minutes later than their “‘track bet- ting”’ was marked up on the second event. At 3:05 ». M. the poolrooms posted the prices against the starters in the third race, while at Ingleside the judges did not sound the bell allowing the bookmakers to commence betting until 3:22 ». u., a dis- crepancy of seventeen minutes. The second event was not decided until 3:14 7. M., still these men who claim to be simply conducting a commission business laid odds and took coin on horses starting in the third race nine minutes previous to the time. The disparity in the odds laid against the different starters disproves the fact that they are getting any infor- mation from the track. They are con- ducting a brace game, pure and simple, and the tottering throne upon which they stand is about ready to fall, for justice cannot be hoodwinked much longer. TWO ATTORNEYS TRICKED. Albert Oliver, a Printer, Gets Them to Become His Bondsmen. He Leads Them a Merry Dance and Fails to Make His Appearance in Court. Albert Oliver, a printer, 25 years of age, will find himself in San Quentin peniten- tiary unless he changes his mode of life. He was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of petty larceny by trick and de- vice, on the complaint of John Schaefer, saloon-keeper, 952} Howard street, and taken to the California-street station. Late in the afternoon he was removed with other prisoners to the City Prison. Attorneys Ed Comyns and Thomas Slatiery were in the prison thatnightlook- ing for clients, and they called out Oliver. He told them he was a son of B. P. Oliver, real estate dealer, who would piy them a fee of $25 for their services. Comynsand Slatteryw ent on his bona for $300 and he was released. He took them to the resi- dence of Mrs. Tibbits, 1045 Mission street, where he said he lived with his father and would get the $25 for them. Oliver saw Mrs. Tibbits and said he wanted ‘to engage a room. He had two friends with him, and she might allow them to wait in the parlor. The landlady invited the two attorneys into the parlor, and Oliver asked them to excuse him for a few minutes. The attorneys waited pa- tiently for a considerable time, till finally the landlady, who saw them still seated in the parlor, told them that their friend had gone long before, without engaging a room. The case was called in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday morning. Oliver was not present and the two attorneys asked for a continuance, which was granted. All yes- terday they were making anxious inquiries about Oliver, and the chances are he has leit the City and the bond will be declared forfeited. Oliver is not a son of B. P. Oliver. His mother, Mrs. Clarke,livesin New Westmin- ster, B. C. Last April he was arrested for being one of the persons who wreckea a prinung office at 954 Howard street, and got off by agreeing to bear his share of the loss, which he has nct done. —————— Small Damages. Louis Hafton was before Justice of the Peace Carroll yesterdey as piaintiff against the Market-street Railway Company to recover damages for injuries received in the collision with a ruraway car from Ingleside, January 14. He sued for $299 and was given judg- ment for $60 and costs. 2 i A Schooner Libeled. The schooner Mary was libeled by Peter An. derson snd Chris Johnson yesterday. Their joint claim amonnts to $253 for wages. Bonds were accepted in.the United States District Court and the vessel was released. —————— All Agree. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO. Sells Crockery, Chinaware, Glassware and Tinware CHEAPEST OF ALL, TRY THEM. Very Pretty Dishes. Very Cheap Prices. 52 Market street, S. F., Headguarters. BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE. ———— The Patent Office has issued 3075 patents for inventions, contrivances and dis- coveries in telegraphy. s , the entry being | scratched. A repetition of this occurred‘ latest scheme of | FUNERAL OF MR, LANSING. Short but Impressive Ceremony Held at His Late Resi- dence. HIS LIFE WORK IS REVIEWED. Southern Pacific Officials Send Rich and Handsome Floral Offerings. . The funeral of Gerritt L. Lansing, form- esly secretary and controller of the South- ern Pacific, was held from his residence, 1935 Pacific avenue, yesterday. The attendance was very large, many of those who had desired to pay their last respects to the dead man being unable to gaip admission to the house. In a-hand- some casket, covered with rich black cloth, rested the remains. The floral offerings were many and of exquisite design. Con- splcuous was an elaborate mound of violets and lilies of the valley, an offering of the Lansing Literary Socisty, of which both Mr. Lansing and his mother were mem- bers. The individual ofticers of the South- ern Pacific sent floral offerings of great richness and beauty. The funeral ceremonies were of the simplest nature and did not consume over fifteen minutes. 1t was conducted by Dr. Horatio Stebbins, pastor of the First Uni- tarian Church. A brief, fervent prayer was offered, followed by a short address, in which the life and character of the de- ceased were reviewed. Dr. Stebbins re- ferred in a touching way to the home of Mr. Lansing, particularly of his tenderness as a son and devotion as a husband and of his career as a railroad man, and to the un- ceasing devyotion to the affairs over which he presided a brief reference was made. With this simple address the benediction was pronounced, after which the body was taken from the house for burial in the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland. The funeral party was conveyed by spe- cial boat across the bay. The pall-bearers were Colonel C. F. Crocker, A. T. Smith, W. G. Curtis, J. A. Fillmore, W. M. Thompson, E. C. Wright, C. J. Wilder, E. E. Holton, William Sproule and George T. Klink. The successor of Mr. Lansing is as yet a matter of surmise, though the impression prevails that the office will be divided and that E. C. Wright will be tendered the office of controller. The officers of the company say that the matter has not been | even casually discussed. OF WINTER 1S GULTY The Verdict of the Jury Accom- panied by a Recommenda- tion for Mercy. Convicted of Cruel and Brutal Treat- ment to a Sailor on the High Seas. Captain John de Winter, the master sea man, whose trial for cruel and brutal treat- ment of a subordinate while on the ‘high seas, has been in progressin the Utfited States District Court for several days, was yesterday foundsguilty by the jury in the case. The defendant will be sentenced on Tuesday. He is subject to a fine of $1000, or imprisonment for five years. He was recommended to the mercy of the court, howeyer, and .there is a2 probability that Judge Morrow may comply with the wishes of the jury and give the offender a ligirt sentence. Seamen generally have taken a great in- terest in the examination of Captain de Winter, and his commitment to prison for a long period would greatly delight them. He has been the first master of a ship to be indicted at this port for ill treating sailors under his charge for some time, and the nature of the offense charged has aroused public comment. The United States Grand Jury returned two indict- ments against the accused captain. Gus Waywod was the complaining wit- ness. He charged Captain de Winter with assaulting him with his fist and also with 8 revolver on the high seas on October 18 last. His statement was corroborated by other seamen who were on board the ves- sel at the time. — —-— A 300-year-old lawsuit came up the other day in the Bavarian courts, apparently as far from settlement as at the beginning. The village of Burgeim, in lower Franco- hia, which is now a part of Bavaria, brought the suit in 1595 against the lords of Thuringen for 2,000, marks, the value of a forest of oaksand beech trees belonging to the community which the lords had appropriated A woman’s head. aches may come from several cause: She may have a headache arising & from nervousmess, BE or from digestive dis- turbances; just the same as a man might 1 suffer for the same reasons. 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