The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1897, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1897. | i | | FLANNELLY ARRATGNED FOR MURDER The Parricide Appearsi in Court Unattended by Counsel. HELD WITHOUT BAIL FOR TRIAL. Has Been Unable to Engage an Attorney to Conduct the Defense. WITNESSES TELL OF THE CRIME. | Describz in Detail the Killing of the Prisoner’s Aged : Father. ch to THE CALL- REDWOOD CITY, Nov. 30.—The pre- | liminary examination of Thomas Fian- | nelly, charged with the murder of bis| father, Patrick Fiannelly, was held be(ore; Justice of the P James Hannon this | morning. Tne commodious courtroom " was filled to overflowing, so great is the | n the case. | er of Flannelly was one of the | 1 crimes ever verpetrated | in this county, and the feeling ran so high sgainst the murderer that the Sheriff’s office was comvelled to remove him to San Jose for protection againsi the in- censed citizens. On tbe aiternoon of Oc- | tober 26, it be remembered. Patrick HARRY HUGHES. Flannelly had served upon hisson Thomas | notice to quit the premises which he was | then occurying as a dairy ranch. Ths | angered the son, and he immediately came | to Redwood City and sought his father, who had zlready rstired for the night. Goirg into the old man’s room he shot him three times in the head, death being almost instantaneous. He then left the house and rode to the ranch, about a mile and a bali from town, whers he was cap- tured two hours later, after a desperate encounter which resuited in the death of Sheriff W. P. McEvoy. Flanneily appeared in court this morn- ing without counsel. His personal ap- pearance is notdifferent now from what it was before the tragedy occurred. He looks strung and healthy, notwithstand- ing the fact that in the figiit at the rancb- house he received seven very painful bul- let wounds. On being asked if he was ready to precsed with the examination be said he was not,and asked the court to grant him further time. He seid he had as yet been unable to engage counsel to defend him, and be desired o do so before progeeding. He hed communicated with John T. Doyle of Menio Park, but Doyle refused 1o :ake thre case. He then wrote to his brother-in-law, Mr. Kavanaugh, in relation tv engaging an attorney, but had been unable to getone as yet. Tne Justice thought he had had ample timein which to prepare for the examination, and, there- | fore, refused his request for a continuance. Itis understood that L. P. Boardman, who had been connected with the Durrant case, was here to see Flanneily vesierday, but evidently his services were not en- gaged,as Flannelly appeared without coun- seljthis morning. District Attorney Walker examined four witnesses this morning and the Justice held the defendant to answer before the Superior Court without bail. Tne first witdess called was John Kerr, a son-in- law of Pairick Flannelly. He tesiified that on the night of the murder he and his wife and child were living in the bouse with his father-in-law. At 8:30 o'clock Thomas Flaunelly knocked ou the door and inquired whether the folks had gone to bed. He was teld that they had. He then desired 10 see his iather, but was told that unless it was upon very urgent busi- ness he had better wait until morning, as the old gentleman was not feeiing well. He would not wait, but wentdirecily u stairs ana into his fatber’s room. Kerr heatd them talking, !ut could not make out; what the elder Fiannelly said. He heard Thomas say : “You served papers on me some time ago and I told you not to. You have sserved more on me to-day.” He then heard him say: “Will yoan take them back?” The oid gentieman’s reply was inaud- ible, though he answered something, He then heard Thomas say, ‘Do vou see this?” The old man told Thomas to go away, declaring that he was drunk. Thomas re- peated ‘three times, “Do you see this?” Then Keir heard three pstol shots and some one ran downstairs and out the front door. Kerr hasiily dressed ana went up- stairs, where he found the elder Fiannelly lying on the bed gasping. He was shot in the head. This completed the examination, and, after holding the prisoner to answer, he was handcufted and taken back to jail, where he wili remain until the time of his trial. Fennett’s Casn ot Decided. VICTORIA, Nov. 30 —Chiet Justice Davie to-day reserved his decision on the application for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of J. G. Bennett, held tor | extradition. The decision will probably be ziven to-morrow. | door of HISTORY OF THE CHETCO VENDETTA Southern Oregon Feud That Caused Much Bloodshed. WAR OF VAN PELTS AND COOLIDGES. Prolific in Shooiing Affrays and Treacherous Am- buscades. MAY NOW EE BROUGHT TO A CLOSE. County Authoritles Arrest a Dczen Members of the Rival Factions. ipectal Dispatch to THE CALL C INT CITY, Nov. 30.—The Van Peli-Coolidge vendette, which has been prolific of shooting affrays, in the most re- cent of which Ai Coolidge was killed and . {/’ ROBERT VAN PELT. Principals in the Chetco reud. W. W. Smith was seriously wounded, has thrust upon this county the cosis of a number of criming) cases. For years the principals in the vendetta have had things their own way, the authorities being seem- | ingly powerless to check the strife, but since the recent murder from ambush a dozen arrests bave been made, and the rival factions may be effectually broken up. Thomas Van Pelt, the recognized leader of one of the clans in tne Chetco vendetta, is a pioneer citizen of Curry County, Or., where in antebellum days—that is, before the Rogue River war—wooed and, with the required wampum, won a dusky maid of the forest. But this sketch- not being essentially a romance a skip of years may be taken and Van Pelt yet found at Chetco, with a family of seven grown sons and five daughters, and a desirable home- stead fronting upon the river and upon the ocean beacn. Grave charges were at times laid at the the Van Pelt castie—mainly of mnysteriously disappearing neighbors or passing sirangers—but a: often the re- proach was finally in a measure dispelled by the lapse of time and the faiiure o1 definite evidence, untilin 1892 the seuting sun was wont to give a parting smile upon the prosperous and happy home of the Van Peolis. At this juncture there appeared upon the scene the father of the late Ai Coolidge, a banker of Silverton, Or. Coolidge looked vpon the estate of Van Pelt as fair to possess and as a prospective site for a future great city. Van Pelt was made to sce illimiiable fortune in a town-booming enterpr.se, and parted with an undivided half interes! in his posses- | sions for & consideration of §9000, Cooiidye being the purchaser. A cily oi metropoli- tan aspirations was stakald out and the boom duly insugurated. As a matter ol course iumber was con- sicered indispensable in the building of the proposed new city, and Van Pelt was equai to the emergency. He commenced the erection oi a sawmill, but failing in the necessary capital be borrowed money from Cool.dye for the completion of the enterprise, g.ving a morigage upon his re- maining vroperty as security. The em- bryo city languished in tue lap of adver- sity; and when a hotel, storehouse and blacksmith shop had been buiit the de- mand for lumber became exbausted and tue mili was suddenly transformed into idle property, witk Coolidge and Van Pelt as adverse claimants. The former, by reason o! a foreclosure of lien, had ihe Van Pelts ejected and himselt put into possession by i he officers of the law. When the ofhcers nad retired to a favor. able distance 1be Van Pelts resumed authority and clandestinely removed away all the macninery that voriable and cached it across the Stateline, in Cali- fornia. There the Coolidges as dexter- ously, in the scciusion of deparied day, purioined the macuinery and again put it in the mill. Thus the law was super- seded, and Curry County authority was not disposed 1o ugain interfere with Chetco autonomy, and the obstinate con- testants made and executed laws sccord- ing to the number of guns that could be brought to bear upon matters of dispnte. In the mean time the elder Coolidge had returned to Silverton and Ai Coolidge was installed in management and author- ity at Chetco, where he conducted a gen- eral merchandise business. For years aspirit of hatred was being engendered beiween the Coolidges and Van Pelts, not infrequently asserting it- | its:1f in a' violent manner, but not till | the Tth of last month did it assume the | proportions of mortal combat. The Chetco | R.ver divides the town of Chetco—known also as “Harver''—irom lands belonging |to R. D. Hume on the north side, and tfrom Hume the Van Pelts had privilege to conduct 4 fishery. Tuey were engaged in | fishing when surprised and driven from | the river by a fusillade of firearms from l:"’ upper story of the Coolidge store. Some twenty-five shots were fired at the fishermen and promiscuously through- out the town, two shots crashing into the house of E. C. Hugues, wherein were only women and children. A week passed, and, conciliation being vresumed, the Van Peit party resumed its work, and was making preparations to castits nets when it was again fired upon by versons concealed in the brush on the | banks of the river. Hughes was shot in | the hip and Bert Snodgrass was grazed by a bullet on the side of nis face. . W. R. Smith, associated with the Cool- idges, was by common consent accused of leading the assault, and was reported as Laving boastiully acknowledged that he did so. The attacked party appealed to the law, but the law “wasn’t in it” any more. Chetco had sinned away its day of grace. A citizens’ meeting was called and some of the sticklers for law and order by resolution offered a severe reprimand to the dissoiute practice of shooting bipeds out of season. After the citizens’ meeting peace, dove- like and gentle, seemed to hover over the town, and a veritable millennium was hopefuily inaugurated—but it didn’t last lone. In fact, within a month there were m :rmurings of dissexsion and the old ac- rimony of aiscora was revived and inten- | sited. Ai Coolidge asd W. R, Smith | were waylaid, Covlidge being slain and | Smith severeiy wounded. Aninquestwas held upon the body of Coolidge, and the statement was given out 1hat 1he shooting bad been done by persons unknown; but it develops thut Smith claims to have rec- ized the assessins as Roberi and Charles, two sons of Thomas Van Pels, and E. C. Hughes. a son-in-law With the Sheriff forty miles away, unon the issuauce ot warrants, Constable Wil- liam Moore at once repaired to the Van | Pelt headquariers at Thomas Van Pelt’s | house, ana demanded the surrender of | the persons chargzed with the murder. The request was denied, the accused stat- | ing that they would surrender to no one but the Sheriff. Moore then summoned the whole neighborbood to his assistance, and a miniature reign of terror was insti- tuted, A guard was p aced over the Van Pelt residence, and numerous citizeus o e C HUGHED.. | were'held up at the muzzies of shotguns and Winchesters, and without warrant or probabie cause several were taken under arrest and placed in confinement. | The place was literally under martial iaw. At length Jesce Turner, Sheriff of Curry County, arrived st Chetco, to find that | the zuarded house had been deserted by all the female inhabitants. It then became a serious matter for the Sheriff to | stay the hand of township authLority and prevent the hanging of the prisoners thu under vague susp cion nad been taken into custody. Threats of burning the | Van Pelt hou-e over the heads of tne in- offensive women -are said to have been eravely discussed and only discouragad vy the resolute interference of Sheriff | Turner, |~ Harry Hughes, brother of E. C. Hughes, who resides with his parents in this city, i went to Chetco the second day after the | Coolidge trazedy and was, under pretense | of suspicion, arrested and placed in con- | | finement for several days- He complains | of many hardships and privations and | threatens an action at Jaw for damages. | Harry was disposed to question the legal propriety of his incarceratior and to argue the innocence of his brother, for which offenses he was prompily shackied and | made to realize that his situation was iu- deed perilous. shenff Turner learned from the women at tne Van Pelt residence that the mais members of the family, fearing mob violence, had probably gone to Dei Norte County, apd accordingly he came to Crescent Ciiy where, ut bis request, Sheriff Ferguson of Del Norte County made formal arrest of E. C. Hughes and sancoln Van Pelt, who willingly gayve themselves up and ngreed to go to Oregon for trial upon the assurance that tney would be protected from unlawful attack. The guaraniee was proffered and the | officers and prisoners reachea Smith | River, near the Oregon line, where they met a boily of armed men from Chatco, and for a time there was presumed to be imminent danger; bui upon investigatlon it proved to be a party which, aporised of the danger with which the Sneriff and prisoners were threatened, had come to their assistance. Later Snheriff Ferguson, by strategic movements, succeeded in locating five of the Van Pelis — Thomas 8r., Robert, Charles, Thowmas Jr. and one fictitiously known as Bun—all of whom, being as- sured of protection, readily luid down their Winchesters and pave themse!ves into the custody of the Curry Couniy authoriues. In the meantime warrants were issued for and served upon W. R. Smith and son and one Dickinson for the previous shooting, when Hughes and Snodgrass were wounded. The senior Smith is now at tue Bay Hotel, in this city, under bail, and under the care of physicians for treatmeunt of his severe wound received in connection with the fatal shooting of Ai Coolidge. Various rumors and contradictions of rumors are exiant, but 1t Smith is not the worst beiied man in two States he is a desperate character, and a common pre- sumption is that he was imjorted inio Chetco as a fighter. Sheriff Fer :uson while on a recent visit to Chetco was with a leveled ;un athis breast commanded tothrow up his bands, but he failed to recoznize the authority, and John L. Chiids, editor of the Crescent City News and attorney for some of the Van Pelts, was made to take inspiration from theinspection of ihe caliber of a two- baireled gun and to make sundry ouths before he was admitted to practice in the Chetco courts. W. R. Smith’s condition is critical and it is feared that the amputation ot his leg may become necessary in order to save bis life. i e DEATH OF INTA |ENDS LIFE FOR SIMPLE NURDER| WANT OF CASH Marin Officials . Will Hold Wishimura for Trial. The Killing on the Revenue Cutter Rush Not Done in Self-Defense. Evidence That the Young Japanese Was Slain by a Shot From Behind. Epecial Dispatch to THE CALL SA RAFAEL, Nov. 30.—Charlie Wishimura, the Japanese boy who shot red Imia, another Javanese, to death on the Revenue cutter Rush last Saturday morning, will have to stand trial for mur- der. To-day the preliminary examina- tion was to have come up before Jusuce Bellrude of Ssuselito, but the evints ot 10-day and yesterday caused District At- torney E. B. Martinelli 10 pestpone the examination, County Physician Jones to-day per- formed an autopsy upoa the dead man and some startling facts pointing to a cold-blooded murder were brought out. It seems from the course of the bullets through the dead man’s head that he was shot from behind, in the back of the head. Not only this, but the weapon was beld within an inch of the head, for the hair is singed and the powder marks have burned deep into the flesh, District Attorney Martinelll, together with an assistant, have been busily inves- tigating the circumstances, and from the officers of the Rush and others who knew the Japanese enough information has been obtained to warrant, in ihe opinion of the District Attorney, the holding of Wisnimura for trial before the Superior Court. It developed to-day that Wishimura really did have a sweetheart, the story of which was publisned in Sunday’s CarL and denied to-day in a morning paper, which failed to get the story at the time. The Japanese frequently got one of the members of the crew of the cutter to write a letter 1o the girl for him. All the effects of the prisoner were re- ceived at San Rafaei to-day. Wishimura has suddenly, by reason of the advice of his attorney, become as dumb as a clum, and the sfory he has so frequently told about shooting 1n self-iefense is no ionger repeated. Instead he refers thequestion- er to his lawyer, who says that there is absolutely no evidence upon which to hold the man and that the authorities will be compelled to release him. On board the cutter Rush the feeling is that the bov was murdered in cold blood, and this opinion 1s shared by both officers and crew. Sensational and interesting facts, it is sa1d, witl be brought out in the preliminary bearing, which will take place in a few days. MRS, TREDWELL YET - . SHEKING: ALTMONY Although Married She Needs Money From Her Former Hu:band. An Extraordinary Case Where the Court Is Asked 1o Order One Man to Support Another’s Wife. special Dispatch to TRE CALL. BUSTON, v. 30.—Florence C. Tred- well, the divorced wife of Horatio W. Southworth, the niillionaire manufac- turer of Springfield, appeared in the di. vorce session of the Buffolk County Superior Court this morning on a ques- tion of alimony. It isan extraordinary, unprecedented question being rai ed, o: whether or not a man can be made to pay alimony to another man’s wife. Florence and Mr. Southworth were married in 1861, In 1890 Florence secured a divorce for desertion and was ailowed $150 per month alimony. £he was Living in Brooklyn in 1894, when Samuel Shepard Tredwell, plonde young detective employed by Mr, Southworth, became a lodger in her lodg- ing-house. Tredwell and Florence were the vietim« of a corps of other detectives, and in 18% :he married Tredweil. The alimony wasdiscontinuea. Now Florence wants Mr. Southworth to pay her $150 per month as of old, since her young husband is unable to support her. Sbe i3actually penniless, she says. Her husbana isat- tending coliege. In the meantime Fior- ence is getiing food and shelter for nurse- work with a Brooklyn family. Tredwell testified in substance that at the time he married Mrs. Southworth he was employed in the Leadquarters of the general committee of Reformed Democ- racy, Kings County, New York, atthe doubtiul salary of §10 per week. He Las never contributed a cent toward the sup- port of Florence. At the conclusion Judege Dunopar said he would take the matter under consideration, adding, by way of parenthesis, that it would be an extraordinary case where the court would order one man 1o Ssupport another man’s wife. Sewt RAVAGES (F CONSUMPTION. The Diseass Said to Cause One- Seventh of the Deaths in New York City. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Dr. Biggs, of the Board of Heaith, made some start- ling statements before the Board of Esti- mates while that body was to-day consid- ering the city budget] for 1398. The Board of Estimates was asked to approve a grant of §60,000 for the care of tubercu- losis in a special hospital. Dr. Biggs, speaking for the Board of Healib, in sud- port of the appropriation, declared that one out of everv seven persons who die in this city is_a vietim of tubercular con- sumption. Dr. Biggs further stated that among the working classes the percentage of deaths due to this diease wus oOne- quarter. Tue Board of Health was un- aole to deal definitely wi-h the matter to- day, but at its regular meeiing wiil pa resclution recommending the aporepria- tion of the money asked to sty ihe rav. ages of consumption Tee L Death of a Ca itoga Merchant. CALISTOGA, Nov. 30.—S8. W. New- beuer, for over fifteen years a merchant here, died this morning at8 o’clock of con- sumption. He was a naiive of Austria, aged 51 years. Tue body will be shipped to-morrow to San Francisco for buriai and the funeral will be held under the au: pices of the Masons, With a Bread Knife a Chico Drayman Cuts His Throat. Fights Like a Madman When Officers Attempt to Sava Him. Despondent Because Funds That Had Been Promised H m Were Not Forthcoming. Special Dispatch to THE CALL CH1CO, Nov. 30.—Chico was startied this morning by the announcement that William H. Geiger, who for years past had conducted adraying business here, had committed suicide by cutting his throat with a bread knife. Geiger was reared in Chico, was we!l known all over ihe county and was generally liked. It nad been noticed by his friends for some time that he acted peculiarly, but no one aniicipated that he would take hisown life. Atlo'clock this morning Mrs. Geiger summoned aid from t:e Park Hotel. Of- ficers Henry and Walsh responded, and were told by Mrs. Geiger that her husband bad gone into the back yard, said he would kill himself. The poor woman was too frightened to follow him. On a pile of boards in the yard the offi- cers found Geizer with the breadknife in bis hand and blood flowing from a terrible incision in bis throat. Notwithstanding t e loss of blood, the man was conscious and threatened to kill the first one who came near him. After several attempts the knife was taken away from lim and he was carried into the house, where Drs. Burke and Stansbury made an examina- tion of the wound. The knife had severed the juslar vein and cut the dpipe in two piaces. The physicisns did all in their power to save Geiger, but without avail. He lingered until 10 o’clock ana died. The cau e of the suiciae is generally be- lived to Lhave bren a dissolution of b ness with M. Schott. Geiger had intended coing into the draying business alone, but the persons who were to supply him with sufficient tunds failed to meet their promise. The disappointment was too much for Geizer and since that time he hes acted queerly. There is leit to mourn him a widow and two small children, be- sides his father, mother and one brother. Geicer was a member of Great Oak Camp No. 136, Woodmen ot the Worid, and car- rled un insurance in the lodge o1 $2000. NOT THE BADEN MURDERER, Suspect Thomas Frichard Released by the Santa Ciara County Officials. SAN JOSE, Nov. 30.—Thomas Prichard, tiie man arrested near Almeden last night on suspicion of being James Willett, who killed C. A. Andrews at Baden on No- vember 17, was released by Sneriff Lyn- don this merning, as the -officers became convinced e was not the one wanted. Prichard resembled Williett somewbhat, but 10id a straight story 1n regard to him- self and his whereabouts for the past two weeks. When he was told he couid go he asked permission to remain until morn- ing. Sheriff Mansfield of Saun Mateo had been notitied of the arrest and Prichari <taved about the jail until that official arrived. He subsequently sccompanied Sheriff Mansfield back to San Mateo of his own volition for better identification. S et DEEDS OF + INCENDIARY. Has Caused Mz Coi flagrations in Santa Cruz County. WATSONVILLE, Nov. 30.—There is a firebug at work in this county who has a special antipathy for apple-packing houses. During the past six weeks four apple sheds with their valuable conte have been destroyed—two at Soquel a two in this city. This morning the fiith was added to the list. Fire beiore daylight destroyed the barn and a portion of the apple-shed of Puglis- evich Bros. As usual, ihe fire was of i cendiary origin. The loss is about $2500, fully covered insurance. Two hours after the Pugiisevich fire a large barn, with most all iis contents, belonging to Hans Struve and locaied about two miles outside the city, was also destroved. This fire also was of incendiary origin. S S WILL ANCHOK IN 1HE BaX. Monitor Montersy to Drop Down From Mare Island Zo-Day. VALLEJO, Nov. 30.—The monitor Mon- terey, having taken on a full supply of coal, will leave for San Francisco to-mor- row morning. From there she will go to San Diego for u short time and thence to Magdalena Bay for target practice. The Wheeling, baving completed a sat- isfactory trial trip, will soon leave ihe yard for Alaska, to take the place of the Marietta, expected to arrive in a lew days from the north. The Monadnock is ready for sea, but the date for her departure has not been sel. e PIONEER ##& VERY 1LL. Came to California in 1830 on the Brig Druid. SAN JOSE, Nov. 30.—Harry J. Bee, who is probably the oldest living vioneer on the Pacific Coast, is lying dangerousiy ill at the home of his daughter in this city. He was born in_England in 1808, He ar. rived in San Francizco in October, 1830, on the brig Druid. He had some trouble with t e mate and deserted. On the ar- rival of Commodore Sloat at Monterey he carried a verbal mes age to General Fre- mont, then at Sonoms, that the bear flag must be hauled down. ceg SUICIDE OF 1 >TRAMGER. Man From San Franucicco Kills Himuelf at Visatia. VISALIA, Nov. 30.—A stranger named John Reneck or Berneck was found dead in a roum of the Visalia Hotel last nigut. He had shot himself througn the brain, the bullet entering at ihe top of his head. He had arrived in town from San Fra cisco ten or twelve hours before and had been asking for work. There was $1 65in his pocket. No one here knew him., He was about 54 years old. U Treasury Deficit. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — Secretary Gage saic to-day thatin the annual esti- mates he would send to Congress he would name about §$20,000,000, and not above $25,000,000, as the amount of the Treasury deficit for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1895. The Secretary said he expecied the receipts from customs to in- creas: steadily, and that in the spring months he anticipaied quite large imoor- tations. g e Second Irinl of Luetgert. CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Four jurors to try Adoiph L. Luctgert a seconu ume were sworn in at 4 o’clock this afternoon, and up to that hour only thirty-eight venire- men had been called into the jury-box and found di:-qualified to serve. where he | usi- | NEW TO-DAY who sell at t useless profits. Boys’ three- Boy brown handsome SetonSe oot BLUE signs, 2d bl Here! Boys! Get your Winter Cloth- ing of the manufacturers, turers’” wholesale price— don’t pay the middleman lots of spending money left. breasted Suits, Cassimeres and Cheviots, warm woolen garmentsthat will wear, ages 10 to Cape and dark Cheviots, patterns, ai : s &9 braid on cape, agez., $. 25) Buy of the maker. — CLOTHING., he manufac- You'll have piece Single- Oregon City b Vi Overcoats, wide Come to the ock from Market. Wholesale Manufacturers Selling at Retail. BROWN BROS. & CO., 121-123 Sansome St MURDER SUSPECT CAUGHT AT FRESNO John Griffith Wanted by tne Contra Costa County Officers. Balleved to Know Considerable Re- garding the Drowning of George Newman. Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL. FRESNO, Nov. 30.—John Griffith was taken into custody in this city yesterday | by Depuiy Sheriff Timmins, who had a subpena summoning Griffith to attend the | inquest on the death of George E. New- | man at Antioch, Contra Costa County. | Newman fell from a wharf last Thursday ! night, and his body was recovered from the river the next day. The authorities | of the northern county suspect that Grif- | fith raay be able to throw some light on | he has to say under oath. He was thelast | man seen in the company of Newman | while ne was alive, they baving been on a spree together during Thursday evening. The suspectleft Antioch immediately after the fatality and came to Fresno. Whils he was in Antioch the prisoner | was known to bave had no money, but since then Le seems to have been spending cash quite freelv. Newman had about $50 the evening before his deatn, but only 45 the case, and they desire to learn what | N0 COMPROMISE IN THE BARRON 1 Trustees of the Fund Creati in the Will Interpose an Objection. Insist Upon Carrying Out tt Wishes Expressed by the Late Mililonalre. Special Dispatch to THE CALL SAN JOSE, Nov. 30.—An obstacle tott compromise of the coniest of the wiil ¢ the late millionaire Edward Barron Y George E. Barron, a son, has arisen. B the terms of the proposed settiemey George E. Barron was to be given one ha of the $100,000 left in trust for him by k father, and $19,600 accamulated intere The other$50,000 was to bs held in ry and he be given theincome. Eva Re¢ Barron, the widow, had consented to th and things looked bright for a settlemft of the litigation. To-day these plans we upset. The trustees of the fund created byje will — Jonn E. Auzerais and Mauge O’'Brien—are opposed to such a procede, and give their reasons in an answer tdie petition of George E. Barron. Thefi- lege that the object of the trust can ben i J | ougnt to be enurely fulfilled ; that thob- ject provided in and by the trust hamot | become impossible or unlawful; that is for the best interests of George E. Bgon that the trust be fulfilled, and that aey cents was found in the clothing on his body. | Gnffith was released on parole from the | Agnews Insane Asylum about a week ago, | after having been confined there for some | time. He has not been sound mentally | for some years. His relatives are well- ! known and highly respected people of Fresno, his brother, 8. N. Griffith, being | one of the most public spirited business men of the county. They have aone everything in their power for John in efforts to restore his mind, and he was committed 10 an asyium as a Jast resort. S. N. Griftith sought to assist the offi cers to get his brotner to the Sheriff's office, it belng deemed best to tuke him in charze because of his mental condition. While wa king through the Courthouse Park Jonn 100k offense at his brother, and whipping out a knife sought to stab him. | 8. N. @riffith fled, but immediately pro- cured assistance. The unfortunate m:n | was then persnaded to go o the Sheriff's | otlice quietly. | Deputy Sheriff Reese Jones of Antioch came down after Gritlith S e On pleasant Sundays no fewer than 200,000 bicycles run out from New York, as estimated, and almost as many from Philadelpnia, 1 | ol tbe contest. as trustees have neither the right nothe authority to modiiy or change or colent to the mod:fication or changing oithe | trust in any manner whatsoever. Tue court is asked to dismiss theeti- tion of George E. Barron fora compraise —_—— GIFT FUR MAKIA KIP, Ihe Episcopal Orphanage to Reive Alfred Dibbiee’s Beguest. SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 30.—Sujrior Judge F. M. Angelotti to-day decidethat the $1000 leit by the iate Alfre¢ Dbiee for the Protestant Episcopal Orphamsy- lum of San Francisco should bte awded to the Maria Kip Orphsnage. Judge¢An- ge logti was called upon 1o decide a nher delicate question, as there is no suc, in- stitution 1n Sin Francisco as name by Dibblee to receive the $1000, and boththe Prote tant Orphan Asyium and the Mria Kip Orphanage put in claims forthe money. Inawarding the money tothe y Maria Kip Orphanage Judge Angelbtti took into consideration the fact thatine Maria Kip is an Episcopal institution, nd it was to that denomination that Alfed Dibblee in his will desired to leave hs money. | ar, th of Itis KING becawse it has fame for itself on two con on a level with the rest of the stand well in the world. And life that you have been given. Stockton, Market and £ L0000 00000000 TCDO00000CI000000000I00000] [SC.C.0.0,00CI0000000 000000000k all animal ereation. “Hudyan’” is KING of tny ever been manhood. 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