The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1898, Page 28

I3l 2 8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUN DAY, JANUARY place in Illinois, when he was six weeks old. He was present at her marriage to Willlam, and was always with the family more or less. Mrs. Clark and her husband got along well the first four or five years, but he did not seem to have any affection for his children. He sald he loved them, but she could | see that he did not. He often cursed | his wife, yet treated the whole family kindly. Mrs. Cilark said that at the time of | her marriage to Willlam she was | friendly to George. George told her | that William’s actions proved he d/i not love her. Her affections toward her | husband died, and she became more friendly toward George and told him that she loved him. They became un- duly intimate, She admitted that George Clark was the father of one of her children. The husband always took his wife’s part and did not seem to be | conscious of anything wrong. William Clark came to California alone twelve years ago, while George and the hmx]y remained in the East for a few months before following. She said her relations with George con- tinued until seven years ago, when she made a profession of Christianity. George at that time also made a con- fession of faith, but it did not last long with him. When he resumed his at- tentions she answered: “No, I am an- other man’s wife and it is wrong be- fore God.” He was not discouraged, however, and tried to assault her and sometimes succeeded. The last in- stance in which he was successful was about a r ago. He made attempts since then, and when she rejected him he cursed her. She said she would call an officer, and he answered that he would kill the first one who put his head inside the door. George Clark asked her if she would marry him if Willlam was out of the way. She thought he would put Wil- liam out of the way to get her. She | answered that he should not commit | murder, and he said he would never do that. About five months ago, before George went East, he again asked her if she would marry him if left alone. At first she “Don’t talk that way; it but finally she said “Yes She thought he would remain in the East, so said this at the last minute. When he returned from the East and again asked her the question she would not talk, because she loathed him. The reason she consented at first was be- cause he had her under his thumb by threatening to reveal her past life, which she wanted kept a secret. Fin- ally she said she herself would go and wicked,” tell to the whole town. He said: “No, people would run us both out of the town. Her husband and George were not on good terms and the latter was always making trouble. George was alone in the kitthen where the lunch pail was kept the day before Williams discovered the poison in his coffee. George was whistling as loudly as he could, and seemed to be walking around. When George was told about the stry- chnine he said that Willlam wanted to commit suicide. George heard Willlam say about fifteen years ago that he would kill himself, and founded his theory on this. He said that William wanted to commit suicide, but did not have the heart to drink the coffee. George said William wanted to do away with himself be- cause his wife went around with Salva- tion Army officers, and told her that she ran around with them too much. George threatened to kill the captain of the army, all through Jealousy. Mrs. Clark said she never saw her husband have a pistol or cartridges in the house. Dr. Osborne was the next witness called. George Clark lived In a cottage on his place. The doctor was aroused at 5:15 o’clock Thursday morning by Willlam Clark's two girls, who sum- moned him to their father’'s ald. They said: “Papa is hurt. Some one hit him when he was going out of the door.” The doctor found Clark dead, and then went for the Marshal. Dr. Osborne, with Dr. McCurdy, held an autopsy on the body that afternoon. Marshal Johnson said he was called shortly before 6 o’clock by Dr. Osborne, and went to the Clark home. He dis- covered the pistol on the porch and suspected George Clark of the crime. He then went in company with Dr. Os- borne and Charles Jackson to George's room and placed him under arrest. Noticing fresh mud on the man’s shoes he took charge of them, and had him put on others. The Marshal asked George if the pistol found on the porch was his. He at first denied it, but on arriving at the jail he said: | “There is something I want to cor- rect. 1 did not tell the truth. That is my pistol.” Marshal Johnson placed George's shoes in the new tracks in the mud along the course taken by the mur- derer, and they fitted in every instance. The officer produced a box of cartridges with only five missing, which compared exactly with those in the revolver found at the scene of the tragedy. Peter York testified to having seen a | man running past him in the direction of George Clark’s rooms. had an overcoat about the same length | as the one found in George's room. Constable R. L. Spurr, Dr. Samuel | The fellow | McCurdy, George Dax (Clark’s son-in- | law) and Mrs. Dax, the daughter of | Willlam: €lark, were examined, but their testimony only corroborated that of the other witnesses. The jury returned a verdict to the ef- fect Willlam Anderson Clark came to his death from a gunshot wound, and in the jury's opinion ‘“such gunshot wound was inflicted at the hands of George W. Clark.” GEORGE CLARK DOES NOT DENY THAT HE LOVED HIS BROTHER'S WIFE.| “The descriptive statement abounds | | with facts In keeping with the illustra- | One Question Tlmt rlla Suspect Refuses | tions. to Answer When Interviewed ‘ in His Cell. | NAPA, Jan. 22—When approached in | tainable;’ the true facts are: the murderers’ cell of the County Jail | system consists of old, this afternoon, George Willard Clark rusty pipes of wrought iron, sheet iron was gazing meditatively through the | | and cement-lined pipes, aggregating 63 skylight above him. The huge iron| per cent, together with 32 per cent door swung back, but still the prlsoner of seemed lost to all about him. spoken to did he turn his head. Then a | four-inch to thirty quick, piercing glance met the gaze of | former there are 79 per cent, or over The Call correspondent; and half-smil- | ing, he said: “How do.” to the end of his cot. ute and asked him how he felt. He re- | plied that he felt better than for some ‘notvmhatandms the unusually large time past and had slept nicely the night area for a city of its size, covered by previous—much better than on the flmt\ Los Angeles, and, too, in spite of the in- | widely different altitudes the service quired about the funeral of his brother ' for all purposes never fails.’ night of his incarceration. He and the outcome of the inquest, He | cast iron mains. The sizes Not until | range from two-inch, three-inch ana | inches; of the He gave a | feet. chair to his visitor, and moved himself | and need replacement by others; their | sizes are inadequate for the present re- Sheriff McKenzie stood by for a min- | qulremenm seemed particularly anxious about the latter. “I think that I should have been al- lowed to go to the funeral of my own brother. I think, too, that I ought to be at the inques he remarked. “You were not needed at the inquest, and, as for the funeral, I didn’t think it safe to take you to St. Helena,” re- plied the Sheriff. “Why not?"” “Because the feeling agalnst you is| pretty strong up there.” Clark dropped his head and nervously tugged at his nails. The Sheriff then| retired, leaving the prisoner with The Call correspondent. Clark was handed a copy of The Call, which he pored over eagerly, reading aloud all that related to the murder. Occasionally he would smile, then he would frown. “These pictures are mighty good,” he remarked. “I saw yesterday's Call, too, and the pictures of myself and brother are both fine.” “What do you think of the article there?” was asked. “Well, I was visited by a lawyer th(s‘ morning and he told me not to talk | much for publication. I will say, how- ever, that at my trial something start- | ling will come out—something that will clear up the mystery of the attempted poisoning. As for my brother's death, I am convinced that he committed sui- cide. There was certain conversation | between him and me a short time ago | which bears out that statement, but I will not repeat it now."” | “How about the fresh mud on your | shoes the morning of the killing?” “I was at prayer meeting Wednesday | night and got in the mud comlng} home."” “The officers say they found tracks | leading from your brother's home in | the direction of your lodgings, and that they exactly fitted your shoes.” “I know nothing about that,” he an- swered, “except what I read in The Call.” He then straightened up, and, look- ing the visitor in the face, asked: “Say, do I look like a guilty man? Is | there anything of a monster in my ap- pearance or actions? No one but a| monster would slay his own brother, | and, as God knows, I am not one. am innocent. I am unjustly accused of this heinocus crime. I believe I shall be | acquitted, but if not the law can only take the body. My soul will go to the God who gave it. | “I am in a murderer’s cell,” he con- tinued, “but there is one pleasure for me even here. I have my Bible, and above me is a skylight through which I can see blessed Heaven. Do you be- lieve, asked the accused man, lower- ing his voice, “that my brother's wife | said what is credited to her in that paper?” *Undoubtedly she did,” was the reply. “And it may prove damaging. But is the claim that you are infatuated with her a truthful one?” “As to that I will not say. That I will speak of at the trial. Now, if you will agree to print exacuy as I dictate, I will give you an account of myself prior to my brother’s death.” | It was agreed to, and Clark spoke as follow: | “Last October I went back to my fath- er'sin Wayne County, Illinois. I had been corresponding with him for two years | about coming back to run the ranch. I wrote to him that if he would send | me money for the trip and permit me to keep Saturday as the Sabbath I would come. I stated that 1 would not work Sundays, either, knowing him to be an ardent Metho- dist. He replied that I had better stay among my Saturday people. Then I wrote that if I didn't come home I would go off to South America as an Advent missionary and spend the rest of my life there. We corresponded a short time on the subject of the Ad- vent religion. Then I wrote my father that Mrs. Clark and myself had a fuss over money matters, and 1 begged him for funds to come home. I owed Mrs. Clark for board. I had about $50 com- ing to me for labor from Frank Rob- inson of St. Helena, and when father sent me money I got this and paid my board bill. Then I left for the East and had the friendship of my brother and his family. My brother and one of his daughters, however, were a little cold toward me. “Father and I din't agree, so I came back on November 7. I stopped with my brother again until December 8, when they moved to their present resi dence. They said they had no room in this house for me to occupy, so I went to ‘batching.” T will fight this case to the court of last resort.” There are persons in Napa who claim to have known the accused at Chiles IR, Valley, this county, about nine years | ago. They considered him much of a simpleton. He worked there ranch, and it is said that he gave a woman who was cooking on the place a great deal of annoyance. THE PLANT IS OF NO VALUE T0 ANYBODY, Continued from Page Twenty-seven. lined pipes, utterly worthless, and of 2-inch and 9-inch wrought Iron pipes | is the extent of the present plant. “The map of the projected water works system, supposedly to be in the | custody of the city officials, must have been placed at the disposal of jnter- ested parties, was copied by some one and palmed off to the unsuspecting | reader as a fac-simile of the existing | 1plnnt in the nature of an ‘authorized | | statement’—of fancies, not facts. “It states falsely ‘every feature of the | system represents the most serviceable material and mode of construction ob- The pipe | | | deteriorated, | 1,286,000 feet, out of a total of 1.626,000 The flumes are in bad condition “The false facts recited state that | of mains, conduits, tunnels, flumes, etc.. | ing as it were from the bowels of the | purest of solid loam sand. if he desired fit, | on a| simply a cry for a better supply for domestic and fire extinguishment pur- poses. Every tenant on a street served by a two-inch water main will cheer- fully subscribe to this actual fact. “As stated, ‘in all, 335 miles of mains are used in this city.' As found at the investigation, there are but 318.6 miles within and without the city limits. The source of supply at Crystal Springs seems to be the pet argument for rec- ognition of value, monetary and other- wise. It reads as follows: ‘This spring water comes from the snow of the mountain ranges and bursts forth.from the gravelly soil pure and uncontami- nated by either animal or vegetable de- | cay." And again, in a previous state- ment in another Los Angeles paper in an article entitled ‘The Water We Drink," the writer of this article takes us again to Crystal Springs and pro- ceeds to tell us of ‘three springs, issu- earth through thousands of feet of the | “We will cite in the following a com- ment upon this faise statement made by another engineer of this city who has had the opportunity to investigate with the eye and intellect of a trained engineer. He comments as follows: ‘This is indeed a scenic revelation,’ and a person would need to possess a fertile imagination and barren con- science to be able to say there was even | one spring. The fact is that Crystal Springs 1s a misnomer, a chrhtemnz\ of that which was conceived in sin at | the organization of the Crystal S Springs | Land and Water Company, whose real | existence, outside of the Los Angeles‘ City Water Company, is a myth. The | development of millions of gallons | of water at this point is an un-| truth; the whole supply, with the ex- | ception of possibly ten miners’ inches, coming by infiltration from the Los | Angeles River, and is as much the cor- | pus or body of the river as that which | flows visibly upon the surface of the channel bed. “The people of Los Angeles are receiv- ing Los Angeles River water, the infil- | tration pipes are totally interwoven with vegetable growth; animal contam- | inatlon as well is probabte on account | of the presence of surrounding fl!“lz- ing lands, whence this water derived. Swimming holes at Gnr\'anzn and other so-called headworks and source of supply, testify to the desir- able cleanliness of boys and men living in that neighborhood to the distinct disadvantage of the people to whom such water is served after the perform- | ance of such ablutions. “A comparison of similar facts and fancies relating to the Los Angeles Wa- terworks Company’s plant could be drawn out at considerable length if | wanted. The above will no doubt suf- fice to place existing affairs in the right | light to the reader. “‘Hew to the Hne, let.the chips fall | where they may.” Yours (rul), “ERNEST ABS HAGEN, S R SUIT FOR LIBEL FILED AGAINST THE | LOS ANGELES HERALD. Mr. Patton Will Not Subm/f to the Vlllfm— tion From the Organ of the Ring Formed to Loot the Southern City. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.—H. W. Pat- ton to-day filed his suit for $50,000 libel | against the Los Angeles Herald. The attorneys for Mr. Patton are Works & lee, Davis & Winder and M. W. Conkling. The herculean efforts that are being put forth by the Los Angeles City Water Company to save its combl- | nation of newspapers and Councilmen | from going to pleces are now engaging the attention of the community. The blows dealt by The Call to the syndi- cated newspapers and the public offi- cials who, by their treachery, were seeking to deliver the city over to the | water company, | LB | bound hand and foot, | for another half a century, have had a| most telling effect. What has aroused ‘the people more than anything else to the importance of | activity in this matter wastheexposure | of the well-defined plan of the corpo- | ration to have its lease extended for a | period of fifty years. The people thor- | | oughly understand the corporation’s | policy in securing delay on the part of | the City Council in compelling it to pro- | ceed under its lease on contracts. It| is well known that the company hnd‘ ‘ not and has not now any idea of turn- ing the plant over to the city at the| ‘prllfluun of its lease. By the con- nivance of its tcols in the City Council | and with the assistance of other public | servants it was proposed to deliber- | ately place the municipal water rate- payers in the power of the water com- pany for fifty years longer, and then the cinch would be complete. The three daily papers were to give to the trai- | tors in public office who would thus be- | tray their trusts all the protection that could be afforded them. | But The Call has stepped into the | breach and exposed this nefarious plot, | | with all of its attendant infamies, and | the fat is in the fire. Such an aroused | sentiment among the whole people has never before been seen in this city. On every side the parties to this gigantic | job are condemned. Of course, now ! that the exposure is made, the syn- dicated dailies disavow connection with the scheme. It was not to be expected they would plead guilty to the charge of wanton betrayal. It is only necessary to state in this connection that a certain party close | to the water company, in a thought- | less moment said that as soon as the | extension of the lease was secured a | company stood prepared to give the present stockholders $4,000,000 in cash for the plant. This gives the lease and franchise, it extended, a cash value of $3,000,000, for | the actual value of the plant is but lit- | tle over $1,000,000. It was a large stake | | the company, the allied press and the | traitors to the people, now holding of- | fice at the City Hall, were playing for, and ocwing to the newspaper combine | NEW TO-DAY. In winter weather Every organ demands More from the Blood than at Any other season. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Gives the vitality Needed to resist Chilling winds And storms, And is invaluable To all who are Weak and frail, Owing to "'I.‘lutruefu'u.uunbevea-lflcd,ua‘ Deficieat blood. | strnng and unrelen the people were quietly permitting the time for action on their part to go by While every day of delay brought the Jjob that much nearer consummation. In addition to the newspapers, the| people are now after some of the indi- vidual members of the City Council whose records on the water question they do not approve of. F. M. Nic- kell is a Democrat and a member of the Council from the First Ward. He is the chairman of the most important committee in the Council, and just how he got the appointment is a mystery. The Council was organized against the Democrats owing to the fact that Her- man Silver, the League for Better City | Government Councilman, holding the deciding vote, acted with the Repub- licans. mittee chairmanship that the president | of the Council had was given to a Re- publican, and the committees were ap- pointed on a basis of one Democrat to two Republicans. But, of all commit- tees in this Council, the Water Supply | important, | Committee was the most and as chairman of this committee President Silver named a Democrat, F| M. Nickell. In the campaign it was freely fillcn:od that Nickell had, during a previous term in the Council and at a crit: moment, failed of his duty in the mat- ter of purchasing land for central works, yet with this taint attaching to him President Silver reversed the or- der of things and named him as chair- m‘:m of the Committee on Water Sup- piy. This immediately caused comment, and ever since has been the topic of discussion. Mr. Nickell has been a g advocate of de- lay, and in Councilman Charles H. Toll, who is also on the committee, he has an unwavering supporter. At the pub- lic meeting of the Water Supply Com- mittee, which was held some time back, Mr. Toll stepped right into the ranks and the opinion was expressed by some present that instead of a Councilman he acted the part of the water company. Councilman Nickell is to. be ecalled | to answer at once. A very sharp and | Nearly every important com- | To3l | ever, the Herald is receiving the worst | of a paid attofney | ’Dertment communication has been ad- dressed to him by the chairman of the 115[9 Democratic convention, the chair- man of the Populist City Committee | and the members of the Silver fiepub- | lican executive committee, asking him to explain his course, und directly charging him with violating his pledges made to the thre2 organiza- tions when they supported him for Counciiman. The water company has placed a lobby in the field to prevent, if pos- sible, any further action being taken by the political or other organizations | | in regard to this matter. The lobby | includes some astute politicians, and | their task is to prevent any expression | on the part of the people of their wishes in the matter of the situation of the water fight through central committees or clubs. The particularly villainous and in- decent manner in which the Los An- geles Herald is waging the water company’s battle meets with condem- nation on all sides, Republicans, as well as Democrats and Populists, ex- pressing their contempt for its meth- ods of defending the corporation, \\hk‘h absolutely controls its editorial policy. In the Democratic ranks, how- drubbing. It is directly flying in the face of the policy of the party as ex- pressed in its municipal platform, and is at all times discredrnng the efforts of the Mayor and the two faithful Councilmen to carry out their pledges. Many Democrats have openly declared in favor of holding a meeting of the City Central Committee for the pur- pose and announcing to the public that the policy it is pursuing on the water question places it without the pale as a Democratic journal. Agncultura/ Station for St. Helena. ST. HELENA, Cal., Jan. 2L.—This place ST. HELENA, Cal.. Jan. This place station, to be put In operation by the University of California. Three acres of land, two of valley and one of mountain | soil, have been leased for the purpose, about one mile northwest of town. HER CREW TOOK T0°THE BOATS British Ship Common wealth Abandoned Off Vancouver. and the Afterward Picked Up Towed to Safety by Steamship Willapa. Seamen Had Become Panic Stricken When'the Vessel’s Anchor Chains Parted. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, Jan. 22.—The British ship Commonwealth, of 6000 tons carrying capacity, has been abandoned on the coast of Vancouver Island and picked | up by the steamer Willapa of this city. She is safely anchored in Sidney Inlet. The Commonwealth was bound from | Kobe to Portland, and broke her shaft. She drifted for three weeks and finally came to anchor near Nootka Sound. | The anchor chains parted, and the crew took to the boats in panic and made land safely. The Willapa, having towed the aban- doned ship to safety, went in search of the crew, and picked it up about twenty-five miles distant. The crew came to Victoria on the Willapa. GLADSTONE GROWING EXTREMELY WEAK. Condition of the Grand 0/d Man Upon Return- ing From a Orive Causes Alarming Rumors to Be Renewed. CANNES, Jan. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. Glad- stone drove out at noon to-day. Mrs, Gladstone was helped down the steps into a carriage by a nurse and valet. Mr. Gladstone wore a thick overcoat, with the collar turned up, and a soft hat, ex- posing his cheeks and eves. He descend- ed the steps in the slowest manner, lean- ing heavily upon a stick and using the balustrades, and was lifted into the car- riage. 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