The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCIS SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1896. o UCKY BALDWIS BABY GIALE" The Name by Which the Infant of Miss Ashley Is Known. THE MOTHER'S STORY. How She Met Baldwin and the Strange Influence Exerted Over Her. A DETECTIVE'S QUEER WORK. The Baldwin Hotel Supposed to Be Filled With Witnesses—Miss Ashley at Winchester. Miss Lillian A. Ashley of adena, who is suing K. J. Baldwin for 000 on the charge of violating her affections, is ac- companied at court by a guileless little child, that makes things lively ever and | anon. The child is two years and five months old. She has very light-blonde | hair and dark eyes, appears to be in excel- lent health, and is a type of the healthful Califorma child. The mother 18 proud of it, and spends much time looking after it. She says the child is the one thing that sustains her. Miss Ashley says it ntrue, as has been reported, that she broke down on direct examination a day or two ago from ner- vousness. On the contrary, as is averred, court was adjourned because Judge Slack | | | l Miss Lillian A. Ashley, Who Is Suing | E. J. Baldwin for 000, and Her | Little Two-Year-and-Five-Month-01d | Child. bad an important engagement, which he felt he must keep, and adjourned court himself on this account, | The young woman says, too, that she | feels that the suit isone of poverty against | millions. On one side is arrayed all that | money can buy, while on tue other there | was not money enough even to pay the fees of jurors. “I simply did not have the money to pay these fees,” said she, “and it is only | by great effort that I can carry on the case, but 1 feel that I must do it in order | 1o get justice for my child. If it wasn't | for little Beatrice nothing could have in- duced me to bring the su:t. I would let it g0 | ““It was through a strange circumstance, | the result of which was entirely unfore- seen by me, that I first met E. J. Baldwin. To that I date all my trouble. My father | was a raiser of carriage horses. He had a farm in Vermont, and I used to write let- ters for him as a young girl, in fact as a mere child, and [ remember once to have | had a collection of bits of the manes of noted horses. It wasa sortof a fad with | me, the same as collecting autographs or other things is with some girls. “I was but 17 years old, when, through & girlish whim, I one day wrote a tetter to Mr. Baldwin. 1 had heard of him, had read about him and his horses in some of the papers my father took. I thought he was a good, noble man. You know how little & girl knows at that age. ‘“‘Mr. Baldwin answered the letter in a | pleasant way, and said he hoped to meet | me some time. We continued to exchange | letters at intervals for five years. He said be wanted to consider me'as his daughter, and spoke of his great wealth and what he could do for me. “My father at length died, and I, being left without him, went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Thompson at Winchester, Mas: the suburb of Bosto: In 1891, afi Purifies and Beautifies The Slsin by restoring to healthy activity the Clogged, Ir= ritated, Inflamed, Slug- gish®Overworked Pores. Sold_throug] world. Dava axp Corrsole Props, Bosion, U. S, A. O ity an Dewntify the Skin, matled free. WEDDING Invitations, Announcements, Cards, ef:., Engraved 35q Brimted. . Correot stvie. ow ratos: 20 sempies &nd directions for correct form, modern weddin; | right. | win and get what was just for me for the | desultory correspondence had continued for five years, Mr. Baldwin came to visit me. “‘He renewed his offer, saying he desirea me to consider him as his father, spoke of | his magnificant ranch and other property in California and said he felt very lonely, as none of his children cared for him and he desired me to go to California. ‘At that time, as for some time before, I was very desirous of completing a col- leze education. I wanted to enter Wel- lesley College or some other good institut- tion and finish the course. Mr. Baldwin then offered to pay all my expenses. “Time passea on and finally some friends of ours, including Mrs. Thbmpson, were coming in a Raymond excursion to Califormia and I made arrangements to come also. At the last minute almost Mrs. Thompson could not come and I came along with the others. “In Arizona I goi a telegrara from Mr. Baldwin asking me to come on to San Francisco, and he sent me I came on and met him at the Baldwin Hotel, and without my knowledge he registered me there as Mrs. Ashton. “When I had been at the hotel a few days he came to me and said he was going to Bakersfield, where he had a suit that was going to be tried. He gave me $25 to pay my hotel bill, and also $20 for my ex- penses down to Los Angeles. “He said he would meet me in the south. He met me and took me March 10 to Coronado, where he registered us as Baldwin and daughter. I must pass over the artifices he used to gain the ends which must meet condemnation everywhere. They were characteristic of the man. I found out afterward I was not the only one | | | he nad desired, but that I was one of many, and that not the slightest confidence could | be placed in him. He gave me $20 more. At another time he gave me $120, and at another $40. | This last amount was at St. Louis. Ibad | gone to Cincinnati and he was 0 meet me there. Iwas in great trouble. We had talked it over and he told me to goon to | Cincinnati, and a little later he would | come there and evervthing would be all He never came and I was soon con- vinced that he never intended to come. “He had gone to St. Louis, where there | were some races, and I went out there to see him and try to get some satisfaction. | When he saw me he ssid, ‘You can just go to—." I wanted him to do something to support me—to take care of the child. | He said he would never give me one cent. “‘Why,’ he said, ‘you needn't think I care for a suit either, for a good lawsuit of this kind is just about the best kind of an advertisement a ruan can have nowadays.’ | “He stormed and raged and swore. Fi- | nally he gave me $:0, and that is all the | money 1 have ever had since. He has| paid nothing toward the support of the | child, end I have bad a long, hard strug- gle as a hairdresser at Pasadena to sup- | port myself and child and earn a few dol- lars to carry on this suit. | “I did wrong in one thing. When I was still East, and in the height of my : trouble, ashamed to go to Mr.and Mrs. | Thompson and other close friends, I met | and consulted James R. Wood, a detective of Boston. [ had known of him by repu- tation for some time, and supposed he was 2 good man. Wood said he woula manage the case for me, would see Bald- | support of the child, and would, he said, get pay for himself also. In other words he said he would get enough for both. ““Well, he went to Baldwin, and the first | thing I heard was that he had whipped | right around and joined him. Baldwin’'s money did it. I think, too, that the de- tective is right in the Baldwin Hotel now, as I believe one or two more of his asso- ciates are. I hear, too, that Baldwin is going to havea lot of people from my home out bere. Idon’t know what they are going to swear to. 1 can’t foretell that, but any number of lies are by no means impossible. “‘Ex-Governor Long of Massachusetts told me that 1 had a very good case and that he could win it there for me. Here. of course, I am almost a stranger and pen- niless, while Baldwin has the advantage of being very rich. “My foster-brother has been referred to. I never had a foster-brother. I have two brothers and one sister, but that isall. These men, Richard Y. Hardin of Ken- tucky and Major Chamberlain of Rich- mond, Va., who are going to testify for Baldwin, according to the reports, are no such fine gentlemen as has been set forth, as later I think will be shown. One of them wrote the other that his friend Bald- Wwin was in a hole and he wanted nim to come and help him out. At the proper time I will tell the whole truta about Major Chamberlain, who is not a gentle- man and who was.one of Moaby’s guer- rillas.” The big case is expected to last three weeks yel. Many witnesses are to be ex- amined. Miss Asnley’s child is named Beatrice Anita Baldwin and the little one says she is “Lucky Baldwin’s baby girlie."” ITALIAN BANQUETS. Pescia to Be Honored—John ¥F. Fugazi’s Anniversary. A number of members of the Italian colony have decided to express their sat- isfaction at the appointment of Dr. Pescia as Consul-General of Italy in this City by tendering him a banguet at the Commer- cial Hotel. The banquet will take place at the end of the month, when Dr. Pescia enters into his new duties. Another banguet that is being looked forward to with considerable interest is one that John F. Fueazi will tender to a number of the leading men of the colony on the 30th inst. Ever since Mr. Fugazi returned from Rome, where he went as one of the California representatives to the 30th of September celebrations, he has been desirous of regaling his friends in commemoration of his return home. He deferred the banguet till the 30th ns:.; Dr. | Taylor street, on which the Colonnade | Hotel stood. LEROY G, HARVEY IS INDICTED, Trusted Agentof Mrs. Emily A.P. Smith and Miss Maud A. Smith. THERE AREFOUR COUNTS Two for Grand Larceny and Two for Embezzlement of Gas Stock. BENCH WARRANT FOR ARREST The Breach of Trust Involves $40,000. How Harvey Duped the Widow. The Grand Jury yesterday found four indictments against Leroy G. Harvey, a well-known private banker and financial agent of this City. Two of the indict- ments are for grand larceny and two for embezzlement. The sum which Harvey is said to have embezzled approximates $40,000, bt the amount immediately in- volved is $12,000, representing the value of 300 shares of the capital stock of the Oak- land Gas, Ligkt and Heat Company, which were assigned to him for a specific pur- pose by Mrs. Emily A. P. Smith and her daughter, Miss Maude A. Smith, of San Francisco. The Grand Jury heard as witnesses in the indictment proceedings: Harry Piper, Chief Deputy in County Clerk Curry’s office; Emily A. P. Smith, John A. Brit- ton, J. Dalzell Brown, Mande A. Smith and Guy C. Earl, a State Senator from Alameda County. The case was presented to the jury by District Attorney Barnes. The indict- ments were reported to Judge Slack. The District Attorney said to the court that there was no necessity for placing the papers on the secret file. The first indictment for grand larceny sets forth that on August 25, 1894, Leroy G. Harvey did felomously steal and carry away one certificate representing 225 shares of Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company of the value of $40 per share, the versonal property of Emily A. P. Smith. The second indictment is embezzlement and states that in San Francisco on October 31, 1894, Leroy G. Harvey was then and there, as bailee of Emily A. P. Smith, entrusted wich 225 shares of Oak- | land Gas, Light and Heat Company stock and did embezzle, convert and appropri- ate said stock to his own use contrary to the said trust as said bailee. The third indictment is for grand lar- ceny and sets forth that on August 2, 1894, Leroy G. Harvey did steal sevent: five shares of Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company stock belonging to Maude A. Smith. The fourth indictment charges embez- zlement and sets out that on August 4, 1894, Leroy G. Harvey as irustee of Maude A. Smith was entrusted with one certifi- cate of Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Com- vy stock, valued at $40 per share, and did in violation of the trust wilfully and unlawfully convey the same to his own use. On October 8, 1891, the estate of George Law Smith of San Francisco was distrib- uted to his heirs—his widow, Emily A. P. Smith, and his daughter, Maude A. Smith. The estate was very valuable, consisting of desirable real estate in San Francisco, stocks, bonds and other securities. At the time of his death, or shortly beitore his demise, George Law Smith owned the ! valuable gore property at the intersectio: of Market street, Golden Gate avenue and | He was a careful, prudent and economi- cal citizen, and as a result of his industry and prudence his widow and daughter be- came possessed of a large share of worldly treasures. Having vast and varied property in- terests to look after the widow deemed it advisable to employ the assistance of a | financial agent. Leroy G. Harvey, a pri- vate banker of reputed sagacity and fine business attainments, was engaged as Mrs. Smith’s agent. She had the utmost con- tidence in his integrity and the greatest admiration for his judgment. For a long time he managed the property interests confided to him to the satisfaction of the prepossessing widow and her engaging daughter. According to the story which was told to the Grand Jury yesterday Harvey in july or August of 1894 represented to Mrs. Smith that he desired to enter into a deal or speculation which promised a large return to any one fortunate enough to become associated in the enterprise. He represented to the cred#lous widow that in order to get a fair stanaing in the company be would have to convince his associates that he had ample means of his own, Therefore he said to her: ‘‘Assign to me these certificates of Oakland gaslight stock and I will show the securities to the men with whom I am to be associated, and they will be convinced that I have the necessary capital to get along.” Mrs. Smith had always trusted him as her financial agent and confidential man- ager of her business affairs, and so she as- sented to the assignment or transfer of the stock to him on the condition that he would restore the property to her as soon as Lhe made this temporary use of the stock. The Grand Jury narrative was to the effect that Harvey did not return the stock, but appropriated it to nis own use, and ultimately sold 1t to innocent pur- chasers. It ‘is said that some payments on account of the stock were made to the widow. Transactions in other securities must have followed, for statements were made to the jury that Harvey had con- verted to his own use some $40,000 worth of property belonging to Mrs. Smith and Miss Maude A. Smith. Senator uy C. Earl accompanied the widow and her daughter to the District Attorney’s office, where the investigation was held with closed doors. The jury did not deliberate long after the witnesses were heard, and the infer- ence was created by this circumstance that a clear case of grand larceny or embezzle- ment had been established. On motion of District Attorney Barnes in Judge Slack’s court a bench warrant The story as told to tbe Grand Jury dates back several years. One of the wit- nesses said: “During the latter partof the lifetime of George Law Smith, Attorney Harvey attended to his law businessand gave such perfect satisfaction that Mr. Smith placed the utmost confidence in him. Harvey was conversant with all the affairs of Smith and advised him regard- ing the various deals and investments that a capitalist might be expected to make. *‘In 1890 Mr. Smith died and his widow and daughter placed their affairs unre- servedly in the hands of Harvey. They left everything to him and according to their story did all that be advised and wished, never doubting but tbat he was always working for their best interests. ““They signed whatever he wanted, sign- ng without asking any questions, gnd never doubted anything proposed by him. When he told them it was best, they gave bim their power of attorney and let him do just as he pleased, provided he told them it was for the general good of the estate. “When G. L. Smith died heleft an estate valued at over $200,000; $60,000 was per- sonal property ana the balance realty. Ail the personal property was considered to be gilt-edged, and consisted of mort- gages, shares of stock and bonds. “A short time ago a friend advised Mrs. Smith to ask Harvey to show ber all the papers in his possession and to renderA a general accounting of his stewardship. Then the discovery came that many valu- able papers were missing, others were not what they should be; mortgages had changed hands, and in some instances were not recorded and were substituted for notes of precarious value. “The greatest individual loss was 300 shares in the OQakiand Gas Company. Harvey could not produce them, and an investigation showed a very pecnliar state of affairs. A few months ago Harvey went to Mrs, Smith, and producing her gas stock, said that he had a private deal to close and wanted to make a good show- ing. He told her he had never asked for a favor previously, and if she would just indorse the stock over to him it would be a great convenience. Harvey said he had any amount of real estate, but he could not make such a timely showing as he could with gilt-edged gas stock, so Mrs. Smith signed as Harvey wished, ‘just tem- porarily.’ ““It has been discovered that seventy- five shares of the stock were sold last August, and the balance are_yet to be re- covered. “When Mr. Smith died there was a mortgage of $3000 on Harvey’s own place. In March, 1894, Harvey told Mrs. Smith that be wanted to pay off that mortgage and asked her to sign a release. Naturally supposing that he had paid the money into the estate, she signed the release and ' recently discovered that the house had been remortgaged to Emily Barstow of Oakland for $5500 and the note is indorsed by Harvey and his wife. Another mort- gage of $7000 is regarded as wortbless and there are several similar transactions. Al- though the whole of the $60,000 worth of personal property is mot jeopardized, it is not considered that any portion is abso- lutely safe.” Leroy Harvey lives at 1128 Filbert street, Oakland, with his wife and family. His friends express great confidence in him and assert that he will be able to prove that, though very unsuccessful, his ventures were undertaken in good faith. Mr. Harvey is an an old-time resi- dent of San Francisco and is well known as a shrewd dealer in real sstate. Along with Masten he managed the deal by which the property of the new Postoffice site was secured and sold to the Govern- ment. Itis thought Harvey made a good round sum of money in this transaction. One of his friends said last night that there was another side to the story of his dealings with Mrs, Smith, and that Har- vey would never be convicted of embezzle- ment or grand larceny SWGLE TAX EXPLAINED, J. M. Reynolds Expounds the Doctrine to the Iroquois Club. He Starts With the Idea That the Full Prcduct of Labor Is the True Wages of Labor. By invitation J. M. Reynolds spoke be- fore the Iroquois Club on the subject of “Democratic Principles and Haman Rights as Related to the Single Tax.” The speaker, quoting from Patrick Edward Dove’s “Theory of Human Progression,”’ said: Nothing can be more self-evident then than that an object is the property of its creator. n political economy has determined ntific method which® is not arbitrary what velue is created and who creates this value, politics takes fup the question where it was left and determiues according to a method which is not arbitrary to whom the created value should be assigned. “This,” said Mr. Reynolds, "is the key to the whole industrial problem. Political economy is really the science of how to get a living equitably. *If the foregoing proposition be true, it necessarily follows that the full product of labor is the true wages of labor against all the world—all forms of taxation under whatever pretense. And in like manner the rental value of the land in any com- munity is the property of that community, in virtue of the fact that it arises in conse- quence of the numbers, virtue and indus- trial activities of the community. This is the whole doctrine of the single tax, and lhe"most fundamental of human rights as well. *‘Men have been divorced from the iand 80 long that they hardly realize that they ever had any natural right to its use, but s a matter of course purchase the ge of other men who are by com- mon consent called the owners. “‘Credence rules the world. Cbange the credence of men and a change of action will surely follow. Single taxers are seek- ing to change the credence that it is right that some men should own the earth and charge others for the privilege to use it— 1o the rational credence that all men have an equal right to the use ef the earth to supply their wants. “The method is simplicity itself. Our revenue law is so framed that not a line of affirmative law is needed—only the repeal of the taxes on persons and the wealth created by human labor. You touch the batton and the revenue law as it is wiil do the rest.” At the close a fusillade of questions were fired at the speaker, all of which he an- swered in the best of humor and with evi- deut satisfaction to the audience, show- ing him to be an absolute master of the subject. The club immed!ately tendered a vote ot thanks and an invitation to speak again on the same subject. ————————— Little Infants’ Shelter. This afternoon the ladies of the Little In. fants’ Shelter will give a tea at the home, 512 Minna street. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the children of the kindergarten will enter- however, as that date will celebrate the mall for 10 cents in Stamys, 9 BRUNT, Finx 'ING, 536 Clay St., San findm.(:ll. thirty-sixth anniversary of Mr. Fugazi’s first coming to California. was issued for the arrest of Leroy G. Har- vey. The warrant was at oncc placed in the hands of an officer of the Jaw. I tain those present, and show their proficiency in their studies. An invitation has been ex- tended to all who are interested in the char- itable work of the shelter to be present. GREATEST VIOLIN IN THE WORLD, Achille Rivarde Says It Was Made, in San Francisco. REALCREMONA VARNISH He Declares that the Ideal of Europe Exists in San Francisco. WILL PLAY THE VIOLIN HERE. The Great Artist Amazed to Find Such Genius in the Heart of So Young a City. San Francisco has one of the finest violins in the world and a varnish manu- factured by a local lover of art, the equal of which has never been made since the days of the celebrated Italian masters. At least so declares Achille Rivarde, who has played before the crowned heads of Eu- rope and would seem to be responsible for the truth of his utterances. “I am astonished,” he said; “astonished beyond all measure. I have been on the tiptoe of excitement during the last three days, and even yet can scarcely accredit the evidence of my senses. I will teil you allabout it—how I discovered the violin and the varnish as well. It was in this wise: *‘As you know, I was given a reception a short time ago at the Bohemian Club. There 1 met & man named C. D. Robinson, who very modestly acquainted me with the fact that he had what he thought was a superior varnish for violins, and invited me to his house to see it. “Never dreaming that so grand a dis- covery lay before me, I acquiesced and called upon him. “To say that I was astonished would be to put it mildly. I was amazed. I was simply enraptured. “This man's varnish is equal to the ‘Strad’ varnish, the very finest of the Cre- monas. This may sound strange and seem almost incomprehensible, but it is as true | as that I am alive and speaking to you now.” Here the master’s excitement got the better of him, and he rose and nervously paced the floor. “Do you know,” he vehemently ejacu- lated, “that I saw violins varnished by this man, and it was piling wonder on top of wonder? “It was not done like ordinary violin- makers would do, but it was done artisti- cally., Laying the quality of the varnish entirely aside, it was executed in a man- ner that would have elicited my delight if I bad been in Europe. “This varnish was not made chemically, | as is commonly done, but of the very | finest gums, which must have come from foreign countries. ‘‘After showing me the various varn- ishes, Robinson said: ‘I have something in store that Iam convinced wi'l cause even you to wonder. I have been waiting for some one whom I believed would ap- preciate it for years’ “‘And then he took me to a man named Bronson, in an obscure place on Clay street, and there 1 saw in the white wood the most marvelous eopy of Guenarius I I ever saw 1n all my life. “The agility I displayed in laying my hands on that violin and paying the price asked for it on the spot makes me laugh whenever I think of it.” Rivarde paused and chuckled audibly. His countenance wore the same beatific expression seen on that of a child who bad just been especially favored by Santa Claus. *I handed it immediately to Mr. Robin- son,” he continued, “and asked that, as an especial favor, he would varnish it for me. You know the finest violin in the world can be utterly ruined by a poor varnish.” “With two or three years’ practice on this violin I expect to have one of the finest instruments made either in olden or modern times. *“When I play with this violin in Eun- rope 1 expect it to render the maker and the varnisher famous. This Robinson is one of the greatest connoisseurs or dilet- tantes, whichever you wish to call him, I bave ever seen. He talks in the most in- telligent and true way of instruments and their history I have ever heard. In my opinion, he is oné of the three greatest connoisseusrs in the world. The others are a Mr. Smith of Chicago and a Mr. Clopton of New York.”” In his enthusiasm Rivarde frequently mixed the manufacturer of the varnish and the maker of the violin together in a way that defied elucidation, and would bave to be asked to speak of them sepa- rately. “1f I give an extra recital here, which is most probable,” he said, *“I shall certainly play a piece upon this violin. In ailits details 1t is the finest type of the Guen- arins, and San Franciscans will be as won- der-stricken as I am. “It has the largest tone of any violin I ever heard, and when it is seasoned it will gain a vast deal in mellowness, and will be the finest instrument in the world for a soloist.” Returning to the men again, he said: “Why, the modesty of these men is such that I was dumfounded when I saw these things.” And then he came around to what he thought would be skepticism on the part of the public, saving: “I am all the more surprised because San Francisco isa new City in a newly settled country and has not attained the high plane in art that comes with age. To find such an instrument and such var- nish here I never dreamed of. Europe will have a good lesson by this. ““Why these things have never been dis- covered before 1s simply inexpiicable. Men have been endeavoring to equal the Cremona varnish for years and years, bus even in Europe they have come far from verfection. li‘el':is man tells me he has been hunting for this varnish for years, and g&? thing I can vouch for—he has found b By this time the violinist had calmed down sufficiently to talk calmly, but the loss of enthusiasm in his manner inno wise detracted from his earnestness. “‘Just you wait,” he said, in conclusion, “‘till the San Franciscans have heard ihis instrument speak to thein, and if they do not acknowledge the divinity of its ac- cents and bow at its shrine, I will be more astonished than when I discovered it.” NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOOD: OF EXTRAORDINARY HERIT! In conformity with our rule of offering EXTRA INDUCEME!‘JTS to our Bargain-Day patrons we select a variety of the MOST SEASONABLF: AND POPULAR LINES and place them ON SPECIAL SALE TO-DAY at figures LADIES’ KID GLOVES! 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