The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1896, Page 9

F CAMPBELL'S STORY OF HIS ABDUCTION Strange Tale Told in Judge Wallace's Court Yes- terday. KIDNAPED AND JROBBED. The Capitalist Swears He Was Foully Treated by 0. W. Winthrop. Handcuffed, Gagg-d and Chained to His B:d, He Says He Would Not Be Blackmailed. The teking of testimony in the case of Oliver W. Winthrop, accused of having kidnaped and robbed in Aungust last James O. Campbeli, the aged millionaire of Hawaii, was begun yesterday before fudge Wallace and a jury in department 6, Superior Conrt. During nearly all the time of the session the crowd of spec- tators present was entertained by the old cdpitalist, who told & strange story of = ience, robbery and attempted extortion. He went fully into the details of thrilling adventure, and his language and manner were well calculated to impress the jury with its truth. Assisiant District Attorney Biack, at the opening of the morning session, said that when Winthrop rented the cottage at 4109 California street he wore a mus- tache but not side whiskers, as he had erroneously stated on Tue y. Policeman G. W. Russell, the first wit- ness for the prosecution, exhibited and explained a diagram he had made, show- ing the exterior and interior of the Califo la-street cottage, where the millionaire waged such a plucky battle for the pos- session of his wealth. The cottage fronted on California street, and was between Third ana Fonrth avenues. [n the base- ment were a kitchen, dining-room and conservatory, and on the floor above a parlor and three bedrooms. Campbell was on the stand the restof the day under direct and cross examina- tion. His tale does not differ essentially from that publis ed in the papers at the time, but it was related more in detaii and with a most convincing air of sincerity In substance he said “I am 68 years of age, a carpenter by trade. My home is in Honolulu, where 1've resiced for forty-six vears. My busi- ness has been that of a sugar-planter and stock-raiser. For the last five vears T’ve been out of active siill retain my interest in several island enterprises. 1 began life there asa car- penter. then went into the woods and made a sugar-mill to grind out sugar. was married eighteen years ago. “In April jast I came from Honolulu to San Francisco. “1 first met Winthrop at the Vendome Hotel in San Jose, where I was visiting on the 31st of August. H-= introduced him- self to me under name, said he wi-bed to go to the islands,and inquired b business, though I | | i | P his | Winthrop and His Wife Sat a Few Feet Apart During the Trial. pockets the $250 I had drawn from the ] bank, $55 in bills and some loose change. | The carfare on the way out was paid by Wintlrop. We sat down in the parlor and in a few minutes I inquired of Win- throp for his wife, explaining that I was in a hurry. He said he would see and left the room, returning without her, but saying that she would come soon. | “While waiting there with my hat on, | but prepared to take it off as soon as the lady should come, a masked man sud- denly appeared in the doorway, with a pistol in his hand, and commanded me to throw up my hands or he wounld shoot. | Winthrop put up his bands and advised | me to do so also, but I struck the masked | man a blow in the head with my clencaed | fist, and he went down. At the same in- | stant the pistol went off and the ball | grazed my temple and passed through the | orim of my hat. I tried to grab the pis- | tol, when Winthrop hit me from behind, telling the man on the floor, whom he called Pete, to hola on io the pistol. I next attempted to gat out of the house and had the front door partly open, when | Winthrop again_attacked me, hitting me i with some hard substance behind the i ear and knocking me insensible.’ The rest of the witness’ testimony was a recital of how he had been tied hand and foot and his money taken from him by | Pete, as directed by Winthrop. Subse- quently he was gagged and handcuffed, | stretched upon a bedstead and chained to staples in the floor. In this tortured and half-starved condition, he said, his ab- ductors made repeated attempts to get { him to sign a paper which would enable | them to get $20,000 of his money, but he stoutly resisted until finally he was re- | leased. The chain with a split link, the Campbell Explains How He Was Handcuffed, concerning the coffee lands there. He said that he had $70,000, realized from the sale of u ranch,and was desirous of invest- ing the mobey in the islands. Iadvised bim to go down there and see things for himself. He said he should were it not for the bad health of his wife, whom he would tike me 10 visit and enlighten her about the climate. I answered that in afew ays I should be in San Francisco and then, if time permitted, I would call on ner. “My next meeting with Winthrop was in the afternoon of Monday, August 3, in the Occidental Hotel in this City. He wished me 10 accompany him, but I was on my way to ths Anglo-Californian Bank to draw some money and told him I had 10t the time. After returning to the notel I' again saw W nthrop and at his pressing solicitation walked down Mont- gomery street with him, took the Sacra- mento-street car and finaily arnved at the wottage on California street. I bad in my ST capitalist’s torn frock coat, the handcuffs, a rat-tail file and the bloodstained bed- clothes were introduced in evidence, and proved to be convincing though silent wit- nesses. “When on Wednesday Winthrop told me that he had ordered Pete o set me iree,” said Campoell, “he advised me in the future never to make friends with strangers. My pocketbook, letter of eredit and keys were returned to me, but not the money. At about 8:30 . M. Wednesday Pete led me out the back door and put me aboard of a Geary-street car. I walked from the terminus to my hotel, sent for Captain Lees and Detective Curtin and went with them in a carriage back to the cottage that same night. Winthrop does not look now as he did wheu I saw him at the cottage. He has shaved off his mus- tache.” Attorney Bell had begun to cross-exam- ine the witness when the court adjourned until 100’clock this morning. | | Democratic Congressmen as possible. The | eraze among t. VERY COLD FROST PREVENTS FUSION. Recess for Meditation by the Three-Headed Committee. ALL EYES ON THE THIRD After the Democrats Nominate the Fusionists Will Do Something. JOY OF THE RAILROAD MEN. | Government Ownership of Publi(:; Utilities Will Not Be an Issue in the Campaign. | The joint fusion committee of Demo- | crats, Populists and silver men have found | that the world is not going well with them. The refusal of Monteith and Mc- Glasban, Populists, and oi Kelly and Mad- certed them very much, for it has dis- | arranged the slate materially. The Democrats will not be able to de- liver the goods in the districts represented | by Kelly and Maddux, and the Populists will not be able to keep their agreement with the Democrats in the districts repre- sented by Monteith and McGlashan. The | defection of the four candidates, however, | will be a good excuse for the Democracy failing to keep its promise to the Popu- lists, thatit would give them three Con- | gres smen, and it now looks as if all the Populists would get would be two, and | those two in strong Republican districts | where there is ot the remotest chance of winning. The shrewd Democratic managers would rather put up a Popalist to be slaughtered | in a Republican district than a Democrat, because in that event the loss of prestige would fall upon the People’s party and not upon the Democratic party. Tue whole object of the fusion on the Democratic side is to obtain the support of the Populists of California for as many Southern Pacific Company is helping the fusionists by insisting that Monteith shall be kept out of the fight, because Monteith has fought that company and Collis P, Huntington most bitterly on behalf of the railroad strikers. Iv is, also, in an underhanded way, through paid ngenls, keeping up the silver e Populists, wflou oliti- cal belief, most inconsistently, is fiat money and who have stultified themselves in the mad rush for office, thus showing that they are no more unselfish or purer of motive than the corrupt parties of | which their orators are in the habit oi speaking. Another reason why the South- ern Pacific Company is desirous of keep- ing the silver madness among the Popu- lists at its’ height is because the Govern- ment ownership and management of rail- roads will not be made an issue during this campaign. Fiatism, direct legislation, proportional representation, the initiative and the refer- endum, Government ownership of public utilities—all those important principles for which Populism is struggling—have neen cast aside under the hypnotic spell of Senator Stewart, a millionaire and a grinder of the faces of the poor in their own sweat and in the lust for office. To the Populists the Democratic Con- gressmen are pledged only for the free coinage of silver. No Democratic Con- gressman will vote for any of those prin- ciples of which they are so proud. The teaders of the People’s party of this State are not at all in touch with the great mass of their constituents. This fact is clearly shown by the attitude of nipe- tenths of the Populist organs, which are opposed to sacrificing the principles of the party, even for a temporary political advantage. T. V. Cator, the People’s party nominee for United States Senator from California, bas fallen very much in popularity. He seems at present to be more interested in and more closely connected with the Sil- ver party than he is with the People'u, pnt{. But he says that he should not be singled out, for John 8. Dore advocated the nomination of Bryan in the 8t. Louis convention, and he does not see why Mr. Dore should not bear a part of the burdén upon his broad,shouiders. The fusion committee resumed its con- ference at 11 o’clock yesterday morning, and after ulkinf over the punlm? matter adjourned until next Saturday afternoon at1o’clock. They passed a resolution to the effect that they believed it would be no more than equal justice io all the can- didates to wait until after the Democrats made their nominations in the Third Con- ) final consideration of the claims of any | candidate until then. The Democrats and 8ilver men seem to have the People’s party State Central | Committee at their mercy in those fusion | attempts. Not one of the Populist com- | mitteemen will say anything on the sub- ject to reporters, and they are preserving | & secrecy which would be mysterious were | it not so ridiculously ineffective, Trouble is breeding in the Third Dis- | trict. 'W. A. Vann is the Populist nomi- nee there, and three-fourths of the district convention which nominated him say that he will not be permitted to withdraw unaer any circumstances and that he must be made the fusion candidate. If the | fusionists decide upon any other person | they will run Mr. Vann asan independent | candidate. M. F. Tarpey, ex-Democratic National Committeeman, and Warren English are | candidates for the Democratic nomination | for Congress from the Third District. Each is strong and influential in his party | and whichever one of them shall be nomi- nated will in all likelihood be the fusion candidate. The district is one of the most importantin the State and it will not be placed in the hands of a Populi: Senator H. C. Gesiord, Mr. ! aminetti’s successor on the fusion committee, was | eppointed with W. P. Lawlor and L. M. Landsborough as a committee to formu- | late a report which the conference com- mittee at the close of its deliberations shall make to the State Central Commit~ tees of the Democratic, Populist and Sil- ver parties. Sarah Jenks’ Estate. George M. Frisbie, nephew of Saran Jenks, who recently died, leaving & large portion of her $8000 estate to B. F. Bahr, & friend, has | filed a protest against the appointment of Bahr as administrator of the estate. He alleges | that Bahr is a gambler and that an indictment | for perjury committed in 1880 hangs over him. SOUTHERN SUFFRAGISTS, { dux, Democrats, to withdraw has discon- | Miss Hay acd Mrs. Holbrook- Blinon Charm:d With Their Visit. Efficient Methods, Able Officers and Willing. Workers Seem to Fresage Success. Delighted with their trip, Miss Mary G. Hay and Mrs. Nellie Holbrook-Blinn re- turned yesterday from their labors in the woman suffrage cause in tbe southern portion of the State. ’ “We had a truly glorious time,” com- mented Miss Hay shortly after her arrival. “I was delighted to observe the ardent devotion to the cause displayed by the women of Southern California. As State organizer it was incumbent upon me to note the progre:s of the work in every section of the State, and I took Mrs. Hol- br:ok-Blinn along with me asa yalued aid, “‘While the organization of the cam- paign work throughcut the south seems simply perfect, I was most impressed by the magnificent system and order which characterizes the work in Los Angeles. Our arrival there was unannounced and unexpected, but we did not catch our faithful workers napping. We found the precinct organization of the city and its vicinity admirable in its efficiency. The officers are earnest, devoted ladies of the highest social rank, while thousands of wifllng. tireless workers render them able and unfailing support and assistance.” Mrs. Holbrook-Blinn also expressed her- self as charwed with what she had seen in Southern California and its metropolis. “Invitations just rained in upon us,” she remarked, “‘and we found it physi- cally impossible to accept a tenth of them. Still we were kept busy. On Monday morning we attended a ‘meeting of the city executive committee at the imagnifi- cent headquarters in the Muskegan block. The order and harmony which distin- guished the ?thel‘ing impressed mie most powerfully. In the afternoon there was an immense mass-meeting, held under the auspices of the general city com- mittee, wnich comprises several hundred ladies well known in social circles, ““In the evening there was -flnrlor meet- ing atthe elegant home of Mrs, Fay on Orange street, at which we addressed sev- eral hundred persons and converted two or three scores of voters, if rumor be cor- rect. On Tuesday forenoon we had a drive through the city and its_environs, after which we had lunch with Mrs, Alice Moore-McComas, Mrs. Maynard and Mrs, Ludlum—charming ladies and redhot suf- fragists, the three of them. Then we took the .alurnoon train for home and here we are.'’ To-day Mrs. Naomi Anderson, the col- ored suffragist orator, who has been doin, abie work among voters of her race in lus ut Fresno, is expected to arrive here. he writes that she finds joy and éncour- agement in her work and 1is ready to con- tinne it wherever the State committee may decide to send her. This evening the committee will hold one of its pleasant “at homes” in its ele- gant headquarters in the Parrott building. The commodious rooms are being taste- fully and elaborately decorated for the occasion, and if to-night’s reception equals that of a fortnight ago it will be a most enjoyable event. itz i Suit for Dumages. gressional District next Friday, and .that 1 they therefore would not proceed with the b Jessel Yates bas sued the Oakland Railroad Company for $5250 damages for injuries’ sus- nlneP: my an Oakland streetcar .N,J,n: e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 3, 1896. CUSTONS SCANDAL FLAMES 00T AEW Louie Quong, the Suspended Interpreter, Under Indictment. WAS WILLIAMS' FRIEND.| 1 Now Chargel With the Grave| Cffense of Subornation of Perjury. A CHINESE GIRL IN THE CASF.| Woes of a Celestial Maiden Who Sought to Land Hare for Immoral Purposes. Louie Quong, the Chinese interpreter | now under suspension and incidentally the side partner of Dick Williams, was indicted by the United;States Grand Jury last Saturday on a charge of subornation of perjury. A similar charge against Wil- liams was dismissed because of insuffi-| cient proof. The Grand Jury has not vet signed the indictment, but the paper will be drawn | up by Assistant United States Attorney Schlessinger to-day and submitted to the | jury for formal acceptance and return at | to-morrow’s session. | The indictment of Louie Quong is but | another end to -the so-called OCus- tom-house scandal. The particular crime azlleged against the Chinese is found 1 the case of Dong Sun Yep, a pretty Chinese maiden of 18 sum- mers. According to the complaint now on file Quong will find his time pretty well occupied in satisfactorily explaining the allegations. It appears that some months ago Dong Sun Yet arrived from Hongkong. Her credentials were not strictly first classand she was consequently held pending inves- tigation. The girl was erdered to the Chinese Mission, Louie Quong being specially delegated to give her safe escort. Some weeks later the habeas corpus pro- ceedings occurred before Commissioner Heacock, with the resuit that the girl was refused a landing. Certain proof, along with pictures, wa s produced at the time tending to show that Dong Sun Yet was a native-born. She swore the photographs submitted had been taken in Hongkong, and this testimony was tacitly corrobo- rated by Louie Quong. In spite of this evidence, however, Dong Yet was ordered returned to China, but the Government detained her here pend- ing a further investigation of the case as far as it related to the testimony of Quong and others. The local Federal authorities began a systematic review of the case, with the re- | sult that the United States Grand Jury has decided to return an indictment against Louie Quong for subornation of | perjury. 1t was shown that when Quong | escorted Deng Sun Yet to the Chinese Mis- sion he did not go directly to that place Instead, he stopped at a photographer's establishment and had the picture of his fair countrywoman taken. It was this picture which was produced before Com- missioner Heacock and sworn to as hav- ing been taken in Hongkong. Quong, un- | der oath, stated that he had never had the | girl photographed. But it seems that Dong Sun Yet re- | pented of all this deception. She has made a full confession that the picture was taken in this City and that, too, at the instigation of Louie Quong. The girl further says that while she wasin the photograph gallery Williams came in and was at least indirectly connected with the proposed fraud. As corroborative of the picture and of the story an expert photographer was before the Grand Jury and swore positively that the likeness had been taken in San Francisco, or rather | that it was an American production. Incidentally it may be remarked that Dong Sun Yet also confessed she had been brought to this country to be sold asa slave for immoral purposes. The photo- graph taken at the request of Louie Quong was to have served a double purpose Firstit was to be used n the fraud at- tempted on the Government and then displayed to the Chinese slave-buyers. On this latter opinion would depend her money value for the purposes desired. Volunteers of America. Arrangements are now being made for the reception of Mrs. Ballington Booth, who will be in San Francisco on the last of this month. The plans so far outlined are as follows: Mrs. Booth will speak two mnights, Tuesday and Wednesday. September 29 and’ 30, in Metro- politan Temple. The first night her subject will be “The Volunteers of America, Their Work, Principles and Future’”’; the second night, “The Prisoners of Our Country, Their Need and How to Answer It.” Mrs. Booth will hoid meetings in most of the principai cities of Californis, and will explain the vol- unteer work. Major Blackhurst is on a trip north omnmeu in Montana, Oregon and Washington. The new movement is steadily geining ground and it is expected that the coming visit of Mrs. Booth will give ita new impetus. BRITANS BOLD" STAND Will Deal With Porte Independently if It Is Necessary. i She the Sir Philip Currie, Biilish Embassa- dor to Turkey, Receives His Orders, LONDON, Exa., Sept. 2.—It is learned in the Foreign Office to-day that Bir Philip Currie, British Embassador to Turkey, who started on his return to Con- stantinople on Monday, left England with instructions in dealing with the Sultan to act independently of the other Embpassa- dors to the Porte if the occasion should require it. 8ir Philip, according to this source of information, is also to have free command of British naval aid to enforce such demands as he mav make. The Sul- tan will be advised of the change in Eng- Jjand’s policy in Turkey immediately after the arrival of Sir Philip in Constanti- nople. % Grass Falley Mine Accident. GRASS VALLEY, CAL., Sept. 2.—James Williams, s miner working at the Massa- chusetts Hill mine, was caved on by a lun;h of earth yesterday and had three roken. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. T0-DAY'S L OUR GREAT CLOSING-OUT SALE ox $300,000 WORTH —— o DRY G00DS 13D CL0AKS! EADERS To illustrate the bargains that are drawing such crowds to our great sale we present a few of the special lines that are to-day offered for clearance REGARDLESS OF SACRIFICE! VEILING! At 85 38 dozen BUTTER APPLIQUE B reduced to 35¢ each. VEILING! VEILING! Cents Each. ORDERED WASH VEILS, regular price 50c, At 40 Cents Eaclh. 32 dozen BUTTER APPLIQUE BORDERED WASH VEILS, regular price 75c, duced to 40c each. re- At 45 Cents Each. 29 dozen BUTTER APPLIQUE BORDERED WASH VEILS, regular price duced to 45¢ each. 85¢, re- < At SO exnts Each. 26 dozen BUTTER APPLIQUE BORDERED WASH VEILS, regular price $1, re- duced to 50c each. LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS. At SO Tents. 100 dozen LADIES’ WAISTS. made of good quality percale, in all fancy shades, latest style goods, with bishop sieeves, worth $1 and $1 25, will be closed out at 50¢ each. At 75 Cents. 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At 78 Centms. 60 dozen LADIES' JERSEY RIBBED WOOL MIXED VESTS, high neck, long and short sleeves; drawers to match; guaranteed non-shrinkable, white and natural, regular price §1, reduced to 75¢ each. MURPHY BUILDING, Market Sireel, corner of Joags, SAN FRANOISCO. /