The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1897, Page 14

14 DURRANT'S STRANGE WITNESS Remarkable Tale Told by an Aged Arizona Pros- pector. GHOSTS CAUSED A MAN TO CONFESS. Henry Schaffer Says a Man Named Brown Exonerated the Accused. HIS STORY DISCREDITED BY CAPTAIN BOHEN. Owing to Late L:gal Proceedings Durrant May Not Be Hanged Before October. A remarkable story comes from an al- leged prospector of the remote mining regiors of Arizona named Henry Schaffer, who claims to bave come to this City from his seclusion about four days ago to collect about $2000 in pension money due him and to prosecute a claim for Tele- graph Hili based on an alleged Spanish grant to that eminence. He claims to have been seated in Union- Bquare Park yesterday and to have there | Court from the judgment of Judge Bahrs | jewelry store_about the time the murder | in Durrant’s goi | | mont. | Deaprey, the fatal day, if it comes at all, | Court. T and their ghosts come and trouble me 50 cannot sleep. The men with me do no know what I have done.” 2 Schaffer says the tnree men along with the fellow were losded down with jewelry and optical instrumen which ne de- clared were stolen from a San Francisco took place. Next day all four men took their departure and he never saw them again. ‘When seen last night at his place of lodging, 515 Howard street, Schaffer said in addition: *“The man told me his name was Brown and that he had a brother in Napa City. He also said that others in the church in which he committed the murders knew a good deal more about it than they were ever likely to tell, but he refused to tell me the name of the church or the girls he had killed. “T am going out to visit Durrant's fatner in a day or two and see if some clew cannot be obtained to the men’s whereabouts. It may be that this Durrant is innocent of the crime. I can’t conceive why this man should tell me such a tale uniess it were true.” Schaffer is a German, 74 years of age. He does not seem to desira notoriety and tells his story in s straightforward way that cannot fail to impress the hearer. He gives absolutely no impression of being demented. Schaffer says that he served under Gen- eral Fremont and shows numerous bullet scars to prove his claim. From an old Spanish grant he claims a part of Tele- graph Hill, and has been referred to At- torney W. W. Foote to prosecute the claim. Attorney Foote, when telephoned to in Oskland last night, said tnat the man had not yet apolied to him and that he had not so much as heard of him. Captain Ben Bohen, the veteran detect- ive, discredits the man’s story entirely and is as much as ever inclined to believe PR SRS A POSSIBLE RESPITE. Probabllity That Durrant WIll Not Be Hanged Until Some Time in October. “Theodore Durrant will not be hanged on June 11.” Such 1s the positive state- ment of Euzene N. Deuprey, who is now singly making the fight to save the neck of the condemned murderer of Blanche La- According to the calculstions of Mr. will necessarily have to be postponed until some date subsequent to the opening term of the Juiy session of the Supreme | The execution will be stayed, the conn-| sel for the defense claims, by reason of the appeal that has been taken Lo the Supreme HENRY SCHAFFER, the 74-Year-O'd Arizona Prospector, Who | Named Brown Confessed Says a Man Emmanuel Church Murders. to Him the i 1 overheard two men talking of the Dur- | in resetting the day for the hanging of | rant ease. This, he stated, recalled 10 his | mind an occurrence of abont twenty-one | months ago. The remembrance induce.i him to enter the drugstore of Samuel F. Hughes, at the northwest corner of Powell and Post streets, and ask Mr. Hughes to look up for him the address of “Theodore Durrant’s father. His story is that about a yearand three- | quarters ago fonr men came to his cabin in the White Hills, about forty milesfrom | railrond communication, in a spring | wagon and asked for accommodations for | the night, which be granted. He had two beds and gave oneto three of the men and himself slept with the fourth. i During the night his bed-iellow was ex- tremely restless, starting up frequently and shouting “take itaway.” The miner, continuing his tale, said that at last he woke the stranger up and remonstrated | with him, saying he must be demented. | He told the troubled sleeper of hiz demon- | strations, and the latter then, under great | mental siress apparently, remarked: T must tell it to somebody. “I have murdered two girlsin San Fran- cisco and had to flee toescape punish- | went. Another man is now arrested for the crime, but I guess he will get out of it all right. “We are obliged to keepaway from tele- graphic communication, because the offi- | cers of the law may even now be on my trail. I kiilea the two girls in a church, S————— NEW TO-DAY! SALT RHEUM Most torturing and disfiguring of itching, burning, scaly skin and scalp humors is in- stantly relieved by a warm bath with CuTi- CURA S0AP, a single application of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure, and a full dose of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures, when all else fails. (uticura roughoutthe world. o Caea. B k. How fo Care Salt Rheum,* es. FALLING HAIR Tanizossiir Begishes | counel for Durrant claims, the uncalled | degree tban a murderer. | these preliminaries have been disposed of, Durrant. | The appeal, it will be remembered, was | taken on the very day that Judge Bahrs | set June 11 for the day of Durrant’s doom, | and was in parton the ground that the | Judge in pronouncing the sentence of hanging nad coupled with it the aileged additional and illegal punishment of con- | finement in the Stale prison at San Quen- tin until the day of execution, thus mak- ing the convicted murder r suifer, as the for and unlawful indignity and bumilia- tion of being garbed in convict siTipes and being treated generally as a felon of less According 1o the rules of the Supreme Court in the matter of appeals in criminal cases, lhe defendant has thirty days in which to file the transcript on appeal. Ten more days 1s allowed for the filing of the defendant’s brief giving points and authoritics. Another ten aays is gran the Attorney-General to file his brief in the case, and then the defendant has five more days to file his answer. Itis not unlikely that every day thus placed at the disposal of the defenso in tue Durrant case will be fully utilized, and thus fifty-rive days will have been consumed in getting the appeal properly before tiue Supreme Court. When _ail it is the custom of the Sapreme Court to set a aay for argument, which in this case will be oral, and will, if the usual custom is followed by the Bupreme Court, be de- ferred until the July term of the court, which opens in this City on the third Monday in July, the 19th. In this way it is thought to safely tide Durrant over the dread 11th of June. 1! this is accomplished it will mean, even ii the appeal is denied, as was that taken from Judge Murphy. that the day of exe- cation will have to be set again—probably late in July or in Aceust. As the prisoner will probably be given sixty days from the time sentence is again pronounced, his parting from earth would appear to be not nearer than October next. In case the appeal before the Supreme Court fails recourse will then be had to the Federal court. Eugene N. Deuprey smiled in quiet 1n- credulity when he was asked what he thought of the article published in yester- day’s Examiner purporting to set forth an admission of guilt made by Durrant to Frank Kioss, the murderer who was hanged at San Quentin yesierday. Kloss 1s alleged to have selected an Examiner as his confidant, notwithstanding alleged object of revenge in be- traying Durrant would have been best served by conveying his information to an otticial of the prison. According to the extremely transparent fake of the Exi ner Durrant, tening 10 Kloss’ conlession of hi and discussing Kloss’ crime, said: “Iam just as guilty as you are, but the only ihing we can do js to try to save our- | I have my opinion that the man is inno- BRAHMACHARIN A learned and eminent Brahmin and will arrive at the Paiace to-night, and devotedly adberes. s00n do the people of sun-burned India sage or savant. their fellow men. turban of the same material. appearance. this evening. BODABHISKSHU. ascetic, who is devoting his life to study. on Sunday evening wi:l lecture in the Native Sons’ Hall on theosophy, a religion, if such it may be called, 10 which he This strange man, who is pronounced by Countess Wachtmeister to be *‘ten thousand times more eloquent than Dbarmapala,”’ is yet but a mere boy, judged by American and European standards, he being but 21 years old. However, so mature that Boaabhiskshu talks like a Tbe first part of his name, i. e., Brahmacharin, is a title like professor, in that it is the name of an order to which he belongs. It is an order of celibates and ascetics, who devote their lives to the study of spiritual things for the benefit of The Brahmacharin is dressed in a robe of white India silk and wears a white He is very tall and altogether presents a striking He bas recently been visiting England. York, went from tlere to Chicago, where he lectured, and then to Los Angeles, where he has talked for the past few nights, and from which place he will arrive He left London for New The singular Oriental will speak before the Women’s Congress while here. In all probability he will have crowded houses on all occasions. attenuated fairy-tale in two and a hl"' columns say: “When Kloss made his statement he stood within his cell and spoke to au Examiner representative tbrongh the bars.” Deuprey referring to the matter said: “I know there can’t be 8 word of truth in it. If the unfortunate wretch who has gone to his grave made any such sugg tion it was made out of whole cloth. can’t understand the object of such an ar- ticle as that. It seems to me that the very statement that it was for revenge would tamp it as untr It aon’t ‘phase’ me. cent. [t is what he has always declared to me in confidence. It isnot likely that he would take such & man as Kioss, if that man is of the character that I un- derstand, into his confidence. “I am satisfied that all the conversation that ever took place between them must have been along the lines of religious con- solation offered by Durrant. I have read the article and it is entirely at variance with everything 1 NEW COUNTY COMMITTEE| It Meets, Organizss and Adopts | Revised By-Laws for Its Government. New Ex-cutive Board Named—Chair- man Manwaring Indorsed | for Otfice. | The new Republican County Commitzee, with Charles W. Manwaring as cnairman, held its first meeting Thursday night in Shiels building. Thirty-eight of the fifty- five members were present. The constitution and by-laws as re- ported by a committee, consisting of T. D. Riordan, J. M. Chretien and Charles Clear, were adopted, with an amenament declaring against any incraase of the membership. J. Alva Watt desired the power to fill vacancies placed with ibe remaining members from the districts in which they occurred. This was opposed by T. D. Riordan, and the proposed amendment failed by a vote of 22 to 13, A resolution recom mending to the Cali- fornia delegation in Congress tie appoint- ment of Charles'W. Manwaring as Col- lector of Internal Revenue for the First District of this- State was unanimously adopted. The chairman appointed the following executive committee: At large, T. D. Riordan, chairman; Twenty-eignth Dis- trict, Al Houston; Twenty-ninth, John J. Glynn; Thirtieth, A. E. Wallace; Thirty first, Charles Clear; Thirty-second, R. Heilman; “Thirt;-third, Fred J.'Conn; Thirty-fourth, K. Schiueter; Thirty-fifth, L H. Thompson; Thirty-sixtb, Alonzo Davidson; Thirty-seventh, P. E. McCar- thy; Thirty-eignth, Grove P. Ayers; Tuirty-ninth, M. Smith; Fortieth, J. E. Marl] Forty-first, C. J. Clinch; Forty- second, J. M. Chretien; Forty-third, P. J. Walsh; Forty-fourth, G. Bacigalupi; For- ty-fifth, H. Lewis. Harry N. Gray was elected treasurer and Michael Flynn sergeant-at-arms. Chairman Manwaring, who at the last preceding meeting was appointed a co: mittee o1 one to devise means for harmon- izing the local factions in the party, su mitted the following, which was adopted: WHEREAS, It is absolutely necessary for the success ol the Republican party in this State dauring the next gubernatorial campaign that barmony shouid exist in the ranks of the Re- publican varty in the City and County of San rancisco and that all Republican voters should have equal rights in the election of delegates and candidates; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Republican County Com- mittee, through its chmirman and secretary, hereby fuvites all the resident members of tho Republican State Central Committee and the chairman thereof to meet the Repubiican County Committee of the City and County of San Francisco at & conference to be held on Thursday, the 29th of April, 1897. at 8 P. M., at Leurel Hall, Shiels building, 32 O'Farrell street, for the purpose apove designated. Chairman Mainwaring waived his right to fill two vacancies in the commitiee caused by the deaths of P. J. Crowley and William 8madek d the committes filled them as follows: Twenty-ninth Dis- trict, Thomas Daughnety; = Thirty-first District, P. J. Kerrigan. ———— A French professor 18 the owner of a col- lection of human hea: representing every selves.” The Examiner in telling this known race of people on the zlobe. DROPS OF BLOOD BETRAY A CRIME Two Amateur Highway- men Meet With a Tartar. A. L Brown Successully Van- quished Both With a Pocket-Knife. Charles White Receives a Cut in the Stomach and Admits He Was Fight ng. Two young men, one of them a hara- working mechanic, while under the in- fluence of liquor early yesterday morning, made an assault upon a peaceable citizen with all the apparent accompaniments of an attempt at robbery. As a result Denis Foley, for several years past employed as a machinist at the power-house at the junction of Valencia and Msrket streets, and Charles White, who is well known to fame and the police throughout the Mis- sion, have charges of assault to rob pend- ing against them. White has a rather severe knife-wound in the stomach. Early yesterday morning word was sent to the Severteenth-street station that a man was lying seriously injured in a drug- store at the corner of Twenty-seventh and Church streets. Lieutenant Burke and Po- liceman bille at once hastened to the scene and found White stretched upon the floor, where he had been hastily treated by Dr. von Werthen, the proprie- torof the drugstore. Foley was linger- ing about outside the store. Lieuten Burke questioned the men as to the origin of the injury and they concurred in such a highly improbable account of an attack by a mysterions stranger that the officer decided to re- strain both of them. White was accord- ingly taken to the City and County Hos- pital to have his wounds dressed. Fol was taken to the Seventeenth-street sta- tion. White did not appreciate the efforts of the officers to have him cared for and dur- ing the afternoon made an attempt to escape from the hospital. He was cap- tured at the gate by -Policeman Luke Harrison and he was then taken to ti Receiving Hospital, where the facilities for detention are better. In the meantime Officer Stanley had found blood tracks on Twenty-seventh ! street, leading toward Church, ‘and had tiaced them to the vicinity of 327 Twenty- seventh street. The occupant of this place, A. L. Brown, volunteered the intorm: n that the night before he had had a desperate en- counter with the youne men, in the course of which he had cut one with pocket- knife. Brown is & crossing watchman in the employ of the Market-sireet Railway Company. His duties keep him untili A. X., and whiie returning to his resdence yesterday morning, he says, the men at- tacked him, appaiently with an intention 0 commit robbery. In the scuffie he pulled his pocket-knife and cut one, when thlfiy both fled. oley declined to say anything about the afiray, but White admits that he was drinking ‘Thursday night, and early Fri. day morning was in some kind of & row. He declared robbery was not his motive, though he does not remember the cause of the quarrel. Caught a Shoplifter, d, 33 years of age, was terday afternooa by Special Ofi- ANGRY AT THE CZAR Greeks Will Not Attend the Russian Church To-Day. LOYALTY TO MOTHER COUNTRY. The Great White Father’s Ac- tions Have Made Hellenes Resenttul. ANOTHER CHURCH FORMED. MAY BE Twenty-Five Greeks Have Gome to Join the Army and a Few More Wil Fuliow Them. The bitter and unrelenting war tnat is now being waged between Greece and Turkey has caused a serious breach in one church of this City and will result in the formation of another within a short time. The loyal Greeks of this City have always atiended the Russian cathedral, presided over by the Right Rev. Bish p Nicholas, and which is under the contro! of the Russian orthodox church. This church is supported the world over by the Russian Government, and the Great White Czar is its head and main- stay. Therein lies the trouble in this City. The Pan-Hellenic Society of San Fran- cisco, of which Miichell Vanvales, the Washington-street commission merchant, is the president, numbers about 150 mem- bers, and it has been the custom for them to attend Easter services in a body. The recent actions of the Czar, however, in the trouble between their country and the land of the Sultan have decided the ma- jority to remain away from the annual services that take place to-night. They think that the ruler of the Russias bas shown a decidedly anti-Greek spirit and they cannot consistently show re- spect for him by attending his church. The Easter services of the Greek Cath- ; olic chuich are peculiar and have a par- ticular significance. Shortly after mid- night of the Saturday preceding Easter Sunday the Bishop mounts the pulpit and kisses the cross. Then the priests follow bim kissing the cross and then the Bishop and the congregation brings the ceremo- nial to aclose by kissing first the cross, then the Bishop, third the priestsand lastly hold a gemeral kissing bee all around. Ths signifies ““peace on earth, good will to men,” and local Greeks think it would be farcical in view of the present condition of affairs. They have nothing against the Bishop, in fact he is very popular with most of the Greeks, but they have a griev- ance avainst the mainspring of thechurch and will remain away from the institution under his control, Mitchell Vanvales said vesterday that the Hellenic Mutual Benevolent Society, of which he is president, as » body would not attend the East services at the cathedral. “Some of the members may feel like going,”’ "he said, *“and no one will ovject if they do, but it would not be fitting in view of the Czar's actions to- ward our mother country to goasa so- | cietr. “We do mot recognize the Russian cathedral as our church and have merely attended there because we have no church of our own. “Iknow one thing, however, and that is that the Greeks of 8an Francisco will have a ciiurch of their own as soon as the society in a financial condition to build one and can get a priest out from Greece.” Loyalty for the cause of Greece in its struggle with Turkey still remains at an enthusiastic pitch among the Greeks living in this City and vicinity. Many of them would be only too giad to journey to their native country and take up arms for her, and would doubtless do so could they raise sufficient funds to make the trip. ‘PAH who could afford the long and costly journey,’’ said Mr. Vanvales, *have started for Greece already. I think about twenty-five have gone to join the army. The difficulty is that most of the Greeks located out here are hard-working people wlio have no bank accounts. If sufficieat funds could be raized we wouid send about 200 more able-bodied young men to fight the Turks, and they would prove to be dashing soldiers, too. Our society has but little money in its treasury, and this is being drawn upon for sick benefits and burial expenses; so you see we cannot do as we would like to in the way of assisting some of the patriotic ones to the scene of the war’" LABOR SPIRIT GROWING, Andrew Furuseth Te 1s What Ee Saw in Many of the States. Workers Are G:nerally B:coming Alive to the Fact That Organi- zation Is Necessary. The San Francisco Labor Council held an important meeting at its rooms, 1159 Mission street, last evening. A large at- tendance of delegates was present, it wasknown that Andrew Faruseth, a mem- ber of the legislative committee of tne American Federation of Labor, was to explain what he saw at Washington, D. C., and during his travels through the East. An invitation was received from the International Federation of Ship, Dock and River Workers, which is to hold a convention in London next June, request- ing that a representative be sent from this City. It was referred to the Sailors’ Union. A communication was received from E. R. Bush, attorney for Worden, who is sentenced to be hanged June 5, stating that Governor Budd's ary had vromised to call the Executive’s attention to the application for a pardon as soon a: the Governor should return from a vaca- tion, which he is now enjoying. The pattern-makers reported that a large Pittsburg concern had reduced wages 10 per cent and had increased the bours from nine to ten. This, it was cers Green and Allen, employes of the Em- porium, and a charge of peity larceny was The WOmaD was accom- -0ld child and the officers hed her in the act of steal FAITH ve. Fatalism. Read what James H. Barry has 10 say in the Star. . thought, would have a ten dency to affect wages over the entire country. The remainder of the evening was al- lotted to Mr. Furuseth, who gave a de- talled history of the progress of all im- portant labor bills corsidered by Con- gress. The speaker had also traveled ex- tensively through the country making in- S gt gt Ty telligent observation of labor matiers,and | Ponaare made by machines which seem i NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SPECIAL LEADERS SPRING GOODS! 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He reported that he had found the labor | organizations in the East, especially in | New York, Chicago and_Baltimore, to be | in first-ciass shape. In New York an im- | | portant step had been taken by the build- |ing trades in organizing the muterial | men. The American Feaeration of Labor, he said, had recently granted a great many National trade charters, In'the South he found labor orgsniza- tions in a less satisfactory condition than in the East, but earnest and telling efforts were being made to effect an improve- ment. The recent decision in the Arago ca: Eolding that sailors can be imprisoned for desertion, he said, was atracting great attention among humanitarians generally, and lawyers held it the most important decision affecting personal liberty since the Dred Scott case. The movenient to re-enact imprisonment in the coast trade, he reported, had been vigor. ously and effectually opposed by Senators Perkins, White, Allen and Hill. 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