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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1898. MORAL WEEPS AS HE TELLS OF IS CRIME George Clark Says It Could Not Have Been Avoided. Impelled by an Irresistible Impulse to Slay His Brother. Believes That He Will Be Free and Share the Home of the Widow. IS AN UNUSUAL CRIMINAL. Weak-Minded and Stupid, He Does Not Realize the Enormity of His Act. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NAPA, Jan. 24—Of all the mild, ln-! offensive, meek individuals this George | Clark, who murdered his brother, is| the best example—a stout-shouldered | man, not very tall, with his great awk- ward hands {witching in his pockets or tugging at his black mustache, his tired and worried weak face turned question- ingly first upon one and then the other; his dark eyes full of trouble, his man- ner hesitating, uncertain, miserable; his voice gentle with a stupid timidity that is like utterance of an unready child, and he speaks with a lisp. Clark is an ignorant man and a very weak | one; he is not a lout like Flannelly. He has a sort of friendliness that forbids | suiliness, and his helplessness, his in- decision, his hesitating contradictions | make one actually pity this wretch and wonder where he got the strength to make so momentous a decision as that involved in killing a man—and how he | kept his courage at the sticking point | when he got it therey Since making confession of all his crimes, Clark has vacillated. He told the jailer that he was perfectly happy; that the jailer should be happy and all | the world should share in his happi- | ness. He felt, he declared, at peace with | God. Then, too, he made the astonlsh-i ing statement that when he was freed he intended to lead a better life. It's enough almost to make one believe the insanity plea which it is said will be advanced in Clark’s case to hear a man speak as though there were hope of anything but the gallows for one who had made so complete a confes- sion. But Clark is an unusual criminal—a very stupid one, and a very bungling one, too. There is not a particle of | self-consciousness about him, none of | that glorying in notoriety, which is the ordinary effect of sudden prominence, favorable or unfavorable. He is the simplest fellow in the world, ready to speak, and, strangest of all, his words impress one with their sincerity. When I went into the jail to see him Clark was circumnavigating the inclosure that lights the kitchen below. He was not in his cell, but kept up a dismal parade, his hands in his pockets, his wrinkled forehead bent and his eyes on the floor; just an ignorant, untrained laborer, too utterly lacking in the rudi- ments of civilization to be a clerk, too weak-minded, too dull to be a me- chanic. I thought of Mrs. Clark’s allu- sion to his temper—his rages, she called it, when she spoke to me, and I won- dered that this dejected, slight man had character enough to rage. Despite the several sieges of iater- viewing through which Clark passed, he treated me courteously, and gave me the one chair within the inclosure, while he perched upon the iron railing. “If I get out of here, if I ever get free,” he said, “T'll go to work for Mrs. Clark and the children. I was always a friend of the children, and they liked me, too. I always bought things for them—clothes and food, t0o.” This was said in a gentle, patient voice. The murderer was not brag- ging; he was not complaining. “If you see her, tell her I ain’t got no ill-will against her, no ill-feeling.” IMBECILES ARE THIS MAN AND WOMAN 606000000000000000000000000000000000 ACCUSES MRS. CLARK OF CRIME. NAPA, Jan. 24—George W. Clark, the murderer, tional confession of an additional crime to-night, ‘Willlam Clark. “My sister-in-law and myself burned the residence of my cousin, E. J. Barnett, at Pope Valley a few years ago. I may as well tell this s0 long as I have gone as far as I have. You may say in The Call that my brother and family and myself were living in Barnett’s house, and I was working for Barnett on his ranch. My sister-in-law cooked for us all, and my brother worked in the Aetna quicksilver mines, a mile and a half away. We burned the house in the afternoon to compel my brother to remove to St. Helena. We wanted him to resign his job and move there, but he said he would not do it, so I induced my sis- ter-in-law to join with me in this scheme. The children were away at school and my brother was at work. We quietly moved half of the furniture out of the house to make it look as though we had tried to save something. Then I applied the match and we watched the flames consume all. That had the desired effect on my brother, and caused the wished-for removal. It also compelled him to buy some furniture after going to St. Helena.” This startling statement is no doubt true. about the time he states. Clark, the murderer, is a moral monster. He now has two attor- neys, ex-Rallroad Commissioner Beerstecher having associated him- self with Hogan in the case. The attorneys have closed Clark’s lips, and this evening he would say nothing. . E 0000000000000 0000000000C000000000000 “Oh, yes,” he said miserably. “I re-|wasn’t I told of it? gret it now, but it seems when I look | in jail here and given over to the tor- back now as if T had to just go right | ment of reporters?” Mr. Hogan has on; as if T couldn’t stop till it was an unflattering opinion of reporters. done; as if T really wasn’t in my right | “And not allowed to have a lawyer.” mind when T done it.” | “Yes” sald Clark's mild voice, “T I wonder how a Jjury will regard sent for Mr. Hogan, but he says he such a palliation of two attempts at didn't know of it.” poisoning and the most deliberately “Whom did you made an addi- implicating Mrs. The house was burned OCO0000000000000000COO0CO00000 00CCO0CO00C000CO0000000000C0000 ‘Why was he kept tell?”” asked Mr. planned, if the most clumsily perpe- | Hogan. trated, murder. “That man.” Clark pointed to Jaller Then this oddest of criminals spent | Kennedy. ‘Wall Kennedy tried to some time talking to me of the moving of the Clark family. He was keenly interested in knowing just what kind of house this family of his by adoption had taken. In alluding to them he| would use their names, taking for granted, as a child or an ignorant per- | son does, that his auditor knew them | as he did. ‘“After the attempt at poisoning your brother,” I asked George Clark, ad you any conversation with Mr&i Clark about it?” | speak, but it was the Sheriff's voice that held the floor. “Clark,” sald the Sheriff, on't you remember saying to me that you didn’t want any lawyer till you had seen your friends?"” Clark made a feeble, gesture. “Didn’t you tell me that?"” agked the Sheriff, “and didn’t I say that I would send for any one you wanted?” “Yes,” admitted Clark, slowly, “you said that.” deprecating “She told me,” he said, slowly said to me, ‘George, I don’t belleve { was you. I don't believe you did it." " tell this man what Mrs. Clark had told me. How much she regretted not hav- ing had him arrested. you make a confession?” “If I had it to do over again”—Clark repeats a question as a child does at school when he tries to galn time in repeating a difficult lesson—'‘No, I wouldn't. I was so bothered, so—so— there had been so many people here—I was so0 excited.” You see the man's mind Is feeble. It doesn’t take much to bewilder him. Sane? Oh, yes, he is sane,I think—fully competent to tell right from wrong, but woefully lacking in gray matter, in | stability, in good judgment. “But I thought,” I said, “your con= fession was made as a religious duty.” “That’'s just it,” Interrupted Henry Hogan, significantly, to admit whom the iron-latticed bar swung open. “This man was worked upon, his reli- gious feelings were brought into play; he was harried and bothered. No won- der he confessed.” Mr. Hogan will probably be Clark's attorney, and Mr. Hogan’s speech is as crisp and decisive as his client's is wavering and irresolute. “A man told me,” sald Clark, gain- ing confidence from the presence of his attorneys “A reporter told me that if I didn't confess I'd be hanged within sixty days. Then I confessed.” It's absurd, but I hadn't the heart to | “If you had it to do over again would | | He is weak—contemptibly weak—this | tratricide. Any strong will can over- ride his. And Mrs. Clark, phlegmatic, emotionless, must speak more and | more convincingly if she would have | the world believe that this degenerate, this weakling, this man nearly a dozen years younger than she, was the one serpent ‘that corrupted the home of William Clark. There were two ser- pents there. More is the pity for Wil- liam Clark, himself lacking in stamina, but stolid, patient, trusting in the fu- ture and bearing the unbearable that their mother’s disgrace should not be visited upon her children. George Clark will be taken to St. Helena for arraignment on Thursday unless his lawyer objects, which, judg- ing from what he sald this afternoon, he is very likely to do. The preliminary examination will follow immediately. Mr. Hogan says with confidence that the court will refuse to accept Clark's confession as evidence; but Mr. Hogan needs all his confidence—he has a hard road ahead of him. And, the greatest paradox of all in this paradoxical case is that ¥he most insurmountable of barriers to Mr. Hogan's bringing this Clark case to a successful issue will not be thé en- ormity of his client’'s crime, nor even the fact of his confession. It is Clark who stands between himself and lib- erty—unsophisticated, stupid, easily in- fluenced, murderous George Clark, without enough brains to balance the | cocoanut-—just enough to keep him | within the lines of what we have | agreed to call sanity, but with not.a thimbleful to spare. “But how could confession ‘benefit you?" Clark stood against the wall, one hand tugging at his mustache and the other plunged into his pocket. He was really trying to think, and for this poor wretch to try to think is indeed a task. “Wait,” he said, hesitatingly. “I can’t MIRIAM MICHELSON. MONEY FROM THE UNION PACIFIC SALE TO BE CALLED IN. NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Acting on the suggestion of prominent bankers of this . country, the Secretary of the Treasury just remember his words. He sald—he |\, "Gociged to call into the treasury the sald”— money now on deposit in city banks “Never mind,” I said. The matter | which was recelved from the sale of the was not of importance enough for one | Union Pacific Rallroad. The amount in- to make so mighty an effort out of it. | volvéd is about $31,000,000. The money is “ " | to be drawn In Installments of 10 per cent And Clark -tells me,” said Hogan, | weckly. The first payment will be made “that he sent for me days ago. Why | Wednesday. PROBABLE LOSS OF MANY LIVES IN A FIRE AT SPOKANE Fears That Fifty or More Per- “She doesn’t feel that way toward you,” I said, remembering the tone of Mrs. Clark's voice when she saild: “He wants to see me and the children, but he shan’t. Leastwise the chil- dren,” she had added, in a ruminating afterthought. The deep lines in Clark’s forehead deepened. “Well,” he said, “I feel kind toward them, and if I could see her I could tell her things that would make her—" His sentence drifted into the blind alleys of speech, which are the here- afters of sentences uttered by those who are unaccustomed to express the foggy thoughts that are not mentally clothed in words. “Are they all well?” he asked, after thinking a moment. ““The children, are they well?” One would have imagined a worried, busy father, the pattern of domestic- ity, in place of this lawless creature, whose crimes forbid even pitying thought. In speaking to the jailer this morn- ing Clark mentioned the shooting of his brother. “I stood like this,” he sald, showing the pistol held in front of him, “and then when he said, ‘It's early, George,’ cr something like that, I shot.” And then this gentle murderer wiped the tears from his eyes as he described his brother’s falling backward upon the kitchen floor. “You repent it all, now?” I asked him. One naturally asks this man the elemental questions one would pro- pound to a child. His is so crude, so rudimentary an intelligence. sons Have Perished in the Burning Great Eastern Block.. SPOKANE, Jan. 24—At midnight fire is destroying the Great Eastern Block on . Riverside avenue. The stairway is burned away and the people in the building are at the windows crying for help. It is feared the loss of life will be great. The building is a six-story brick, and the upper floors are used for light housekeeping. It is now feared that fifty or more persons have perished in the awful furnace.. The upper floors were occupied by seventy-five or 100 roomers, and it is not thought that more than twenty-five have been saved. Mrs. Davies of Nebraska City leaped from a window to the stone pavement and was takentothehospital. Her daughter and son-in-law were saved. Mrs. Davies will die. p Great crowds in the streets are frantic with excitement. Several thrilling rescues were effected. One man came down a rope with his babe on his arm, and his wife followed. The hnilding is owned by Louis Levinsky of San Francisco. It cost $225,000 and is Insured for $50,000. The first floor and basement were occupied by John W. Graham. The flames are beyond the control of the firemen, and will extend to adjoining buildings. W. D. Lioyd was sitting in his room on the fifth floor reading when the alarm was given. “Everyone who was in bed at that time on that floor,” he said, “perished.” He had a narrow escape. Wrapping his overcoat around his head he came down the stairway. As he ran down the stairs he ran into two men. He saw five persons on that floor, who he is convinced per- ished. He heard persons falling all around him, suffocated by the dense smoke. Alice Wilson, aged 18, is known to have perished. Her sister Maude was saved. 0000000000000 00000000000000000000 . 00000000000C00000C000000COCQ000 CocoCCcooCcOo0000C0000CCC00000000 THE WIDOW IS BLIND T0 HER SHAME Talks Unfeelingly of Her Misdoings of the Past. Her Children Allowed to Read Accounts of Her Duplicity. Half-Hearted Declaration That She Wants the Murderer Punished. NO LONGER LOVES HIM. Says She Told Him She Would Be- tray Him if He Killed Her Husband. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NAPA, Jan. 24.—1I¢ you had seen Mrs. Clark in the streets of St. Helena a week ago, the last thought in the world to occur to you in connection with this middle-aged woman would be that for her one brother would kiil another. And yet George Clark had already | tried twice to polson his brother, and was planning the third attack—the suc- | | cessful one. “But, do you know what?"” said Mrs. Clark to-day. “He didn’t kill my hus- band thinking he'd get me, for he knew | he wouldn’t. I'd told him, an’ he knows better than to say anvthing different. I'd told him that I wouldn’t have him.” Mrs. Clark speaks now in that re- signed falsetto that women in trouble adopt. Occasionally her voice grows firm, and she seems really in earnest when she gives vent to her condemna- tion of the man whose crime is the one toplc of conversation all through the valley. * ‘George,’ I says to him, when he'd ask me if I'd have him if something was to happen tc my husband, ‘don’t you think of murder. I'd hunt you down all over tbe world to have you punished,’ an’ so I would, an’ he knows it.” “Then, you'd have him hanged if you could ?” “Why, course I would,” Mrs. Clark said, the complaining voice becoming suddenly strong. I really believe she would. The art- ists who have sketched this woman have borne in mind too strongly the vileness of her life. Not that she is at all prepossessing. Far from it. She looks merely like an ignorant, weak, slatternly woman; but I fail to find in her big face, with its prominent cheek- bones, evidences of moral monstrosity one would expect ta find there. Mrs. Clark is above the average woman's height. She is strong and stout. Her halr is sandy and scant; her eyes are | small and blue—that dull, dingy color which is blue with the life left out. They are not eyes one can imagine smiling or weeping. They are merely organs through which the animal peers out into the world. Her florid face has been exposed to wind and weather. She has a weak, cleft chin and rather a straight nose. Her neck is full and fat. Not a Helen, surely; merely an instance of the merciful provision which does not record all one’s sins on one’s face. The Clarks are moving to-day. They are quitting their cheap little home where that horrible double menage endured, and intend to live two blocks farther up Pine street. It is to be hoped that this change of residence is due'to a remnant of sensitiveness in placid Mrs. Clark; but it is to be doubted. No woman is attractive when she is moving. I saw Mrs. Clark at her un- lovelfest. She was tacking down mat- ting in the new house, while in the old, dismantled place, gathered about a knot of wood, which was blazing in the grate, were the younger children. Rocking a great baby, her niece, to sleep was a flaxen-haired girl of about 12, a gentle little thing, who cuddled the baby most maternally, while she sang a lullaby in a high, girllsh so- prano. One of the most unaccountable things about this most unaccountable, vile story is that there should be 8ing- ing in the Clark house to-day. Mrs. Clark would prefer not to speak further of the shameful tale, so she says. She tells you that she is worn out; that she hasn't eaten anything since the murder. Yet Mrs. Clark’s self-pitying tone assures one that she will not, does not suffer. “The only thing that I regret,” she said, standing in the bare, unfurnished room, “is that I didn’t have him ar- rested after he'd tried that second time to poison my husband. Then the whole story’d ha’' come out, but I'd ha’ had ‘Will with me to take care of me and the children.” Even this, you see, is a personal re- gret; a feeling that she had acted un- wisely for her own comfort. “I told Will then that he was in dan- ger, an’ I told George that the one Will suspicioned would be punished. I told him that some had said it was me that put the poison in his lunch can, and I told him I wouldn't rest and have peo- ple suspicion me. When Will heard it —what people was saying about me— he got mad, and said he was goin’ down street to knock down the first man that'd dare o say it of me.” And yet from Mrs. Clark’s admission that her husband was awave of her dishoror, one wouldn't imagine the dead man to have been so chivalrous. “The reason George Clark killed my husband was ’cause Will had forbid him the house, 'cause he was jealous of my husband. He knew I'd never have him. But people said he was in- fatuated with me.” O, Helen of St. Helena, unlovely, thick-skinned grandmother Helen! | But she didn’t say it with a smirk. It | was an unfortunate fact, her tone told you, but it was a fact. I held some newspapers in my hand as we talked. Mrs. Clark hadn’t seen the account of the murderer’s confes- sion. She asked if I would leave the paper, and I handed it to her. One of the brood of yellow-haired girls had followed us into the room, whither I had gone that this woman's children might not hear their mother’s disgrace discussed. “Give it to me, ma,” said the girl, stretching out a hand. And ma, without a moment'’s hesita- tion, passed the story of her shame to her daughter, who reads eagerly, while a younger sister reads over her shoul- | der. Mrs. Clark is conscious of a sense of guilt; or, at least, she says she is. “I was as black as—as sin,” she says, composedly. ‘‘But the Lord was mer- ciful to me. You know how wonder- | doctors said I had cancer of the | stomach, an’ the Lord cured me by | faith. An’ since then I've been a changed woman. My husband knew | this. He says: ‘I know you're trying | to live right. And George says: ‘Vine, I wish you'd pray for me. I've got so much confidence in your prayers.’ An’ I says: ‘George, I do pray for you, | every night an” morning.’ “He said to me once after the strych- | nine poisoning: ‘Now, Vine, if any | trouble comes of it you mustn’t tell | about my love for you.’ An' I said: | ‘George Clark, do you think I could go before God with a lie? Il tell every word of It." " “And how do you account for his | act?” “Jus’' back-slid,” sald Mrs. Clark, | composedly. “That's all.” And she, who was not “back-slid,” | has an easy consciousness of sin, past | sin, forgiven sin, which isn’t hard for uch natures to bear. , the whole story is unspeakably There is nothing, not one trace of sweet humanity to redeem its squalid bestiality. It is horrible to think of the crowd of children of all ages and both | sexes, this mother, a moral imbecile, has brought into the world. It is hor- rible fo think of the dead man, a dis- honored coward. It is horrible to think of the murderer. Even Mrs. Clark real- izes the extent of his degradation. | “I told him that the worst of men wouldn’'t do what he threatened—ruin | me and then expose me." And the climax of the revolting tale is reached when each of these atro- | clous sinners, with an insinuating fin- ger pointing at the other, tries to place the blame of his own foul crime on the other’s shoulders. MIRIAM MICHELSON. BETRAYED BY HER LETTERS Why Charles G. Percival Is Suing His Wife for a Divorce. The Accused Woman Prefers Simi- lar Charges and Also Seeks a Legal Separation. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Jan. 24.—Charles G. Perecival, official League of American Wheelmen handicapper for New England and a well- known bicycle man, was the center of all eyes at Judge Blodgett's divorce court this morning. So was Mrs. Clover Per- cival, his wife, for it was the culmination of their domestic troubles and each was seeking a dissolution of the “tie that binds.” Percival asks | for a decree on statu- | tory grounds, | naming A. Nelson of E. W. Sargent of Man- Both Springfleld and | chester, N. H., as co-respondents. | the latter are well-known racing men. |~ Mrs. Percival files a counter libel, al- | leging abusive treatment and marital un- nf\nness, but names no co-respondent. The testimony was interesting. ercival | testified to receiving several anonymous letters last October, all of which referred | to the conduct of his wife. He claimed | to have taken scraps of letters from an | ash barrel at the house which, when put | together and read, were veéry incriminat- ing. Three letters, alleged to have come | from Nelson, all beginning “Dear Violet," were exhibited. Others were put in evi- dence as having been sent to Mrs. Per- cival by Sargent. Two others with the same signature began “My Own Dasling Clover.”” A scrap of writing, which the witness said was Mrs. Percival's, was offered. It was: “I loved you then, I love you yet.” On “cross-examination Mr. Percival de- nied that he had been guilty of being un- faithful to his marriage vows at various times and places. Medical testimony was submitted by Dr. C. 8. Whitemore and a_deposition of T. E. Ahern was offered. The latter re- ferred to visits fi) the gentlemen named in the libel to Percival. The case is still on tria CAPTAIN CARTER'S COURT-MARTIAL Famous Letter From Cooper to Gillette Given in Evidence. Says the Accused Yielded to Tempta- tion of Contractors to Further His Own Ambition. Spectal Dispatch to “The Call. SAVANNAH, Gd., Jan. 24.—Colonel Barr, Judge Advocate, succeeded in getting before the Carter court-mar- tial to-day the famous letter of Engi- neer A. S. Cooper to Captain C. E. Gil- lette, in which he stated that Captain Carter was an extremely bright and even brilliant officer and had done a great deal of creditable work in this district. Captain Carter, he said, is also a very ambitious man, and it was his ambition, he feared, which had got him into trouble. “He has yielded to temptation,” said the latter, “and has probably al- lowed the contractors (or a particular contractor) to do as he likes in ex- change for their influence and power to boost him along.” “The only real wrong done, so far as the Government is concerned,” he said, “is that the contractors have been paid one-third or one-half more for the work than they should have received. The mischief is not serious. because the work has been well done.” Mr. Cooper also credited himself with much of the good results that had been attained. His letter was an argu- ment to dissuade Captain Gillette from having an investigation of the charges made. Inspector T. J. Keating testified as to some technical points about the ma- terial and J. H. Grundel identified some drawings of the jetties. To-morrow J. W. O. Sterley, Captain Carter’s former chief clerk and also chief clerk to Captain Gillette, will go on the stand. He is said to have a pri- vate memorandum of all Captain Car- ter’s actions. | fully cured I was? No. Well, all the | 1 CHEAPER T0 PAY THAN | 10 LOBBY The Southern Pacific Makes an Offer to Meet Its Tax. Willing to Settle on a Valuation of One Mil- lion a Year. Huntington Fears Action by | the Legislature of Kentucky. HIS FRANCHISE IN DANGER As Less Than a Tenth of the Sum Due | Is Tendered the Offer Is Not Yet Accepted. Special Dispatch to The Call. SIFTING THE - SENATORIAL SCANDAL Testimony as to the Movements of H. H. Boyce. Witnesses Also Tell of Conversations Over the Telephone. Meyers Says He Shadowed Hollenbeck From Columbus to Cincinnati. ENRAGED BY INNUENDOES, Thirty Persons Have Aiready Beeg Examined and More Remain to Be Heard From. Special Dispatch to The Call. FRANKFORT, Ky. Jan. 24—The Southern Pacific Company, under the pressure of the keen spur of another | repeal bill to its charter being intro- duced in the Kentucky General Assem- bly, and preferring to show e, spirit of fairness to having on its hands a big | legislative lobby here again, as during last winter, has made a proposition to the Board of Sinking Fund Commis- sioners to pay the annual franchise tax. The proposition came to the State Board of Valuation and Assessment, composed of Auditor Stone, Secretary of State Fonley and Treasurer Long, through the authorized attorneys, George M. Dorie, Judge Alexander Humphrey and General B. W. Duke. The proposition submitted was to pay on $1,000,000 annually at the rate of 521 cents on each $1000 from the time of the passage of the charter in 1884, the com- | pany having resisted taxes from that time under a claim that it owned and | operated no railroad or other property | in_ this State. In addition to offering to pay this tax | the company has submitted a full and detailed report to the board. Suits are now pending in the Franklin Fiscal Court’ for sums aggregating $144,000 | against the company for such failure as | prescribed in the corporation law. Judgments against many domestic cor- porations for such failure have been secured for large amounts. The proposition submitted has not been accepted, and is being considered by the board. It is sald the board had | about decided to fix & franchise tax on from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, but to secure the tax on this amount a long serfes of litigation will have to be fought through the State courts to the Supreme Court of the United States. General Duke held a long conference with the board to-day, and afterward was closeted with Attorney-General Taylor, the State’s legal adviser in re- gard to the matter. The board is push- ing the settlement while the Legisla- ture is in session, in order that legis- lative action may be taken on the char- ter if it is compelled to go into the courts to enforce the collection of the tax it levies. General Gobel said to-day he had not decided to Introduce another repeal bill. He is said to be awaiting the action of the board. FOURTEEN PRISONERS FACE DEATH BY INCINERATION. Fire in Marysville's Jail Discovered Just in Time to Save Many CINCINNATI, Jan. 24.— Allen O Meyers, Sr., was the first witness to- day in the bribery investigation. He said he was at the Great Southern Ho- tel in Columbus, where Mr. Kurtz and others opposing Senator Hanna's elec- tion were stopping. His son, Allen O. | Meyers, Jr., who is clerk at the Gibson House in Cincinnati, called him up that night and told him of Boyce's move- ments. The next day his son reached Columbus with copies of stenographic reports of Boyce's talks from Cincin- nati by telephone with the Hanna head- quarters at Columbus. As the matter pertained to the Re- publicans he turned it over to Kurtz and introduced his son to him. Kurtz told Meyers that Hollenbeck would go to Cincinnati with money, and Meyers was detailed to shadow Hollenbeck rom Columbus to Cincinnati and back, and also for the carriage drives ot Boyce about Columbus. The testimony of Meyers caused quite a stir, especially when he became very angry under cross-examination by Sen- ator Garfield. He denied that he was a party to any conspiracy in getting up the Boyce-Hollenbeck story about the bribery of Representative Otis. When Senator Garfield told the witness he | need not reply to anything that would incriminate himself, Meyers became in- tensely enraged, and Senator Burke had great difficulty in proceeding with the investigation. Mr. Archer of Columbus, Deputy State Railroad Commissioner, testified to following H. H. Hollenbeck from Co- lumbus to Cincinnati and pointing him out to Jerry Bliss and the detectives at the depot. He said that Hollenbeck carried his valise with him wherever he went, even into an upper berth. He did not undress in the sleeper, and received messages in care of the conductor along the route. The rest of Archer's testi- mony covered the shadowing in Cin- cinnati and Columbus. Archer said he was a volunteer with Kurtz and other Republicans in seeking the defeat of Hanna; that he was not employed as a detective, but had worked for the wel- fare and the good of the country. Harry A. Daugherty, Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee, was called, but refused to be sworn because he claimed the committee had no juris- diction in this case. He said he had, as legal counsel, advised other witnesses. He was asked if he sent the telegrams signed “H. D.” to Hollenbeck while he was on the train, but refused to answer the question and all others put to him on the ground that the committee had no jurisdiction. Archer, on being recalled, testifled Lives. MARYSVILLE, Jan. 24.—Fourteen pris- oners confined in the Yuba County Jail underwent an unenviable experience this | evening betweeh 6 and 7 o’clock. During | the absence of the jailer and sheriff's | deputies, who had gone to their evening meal, the men were horrified to find that | the bedding in an untenanted cell had | taken fire, the smoldering mattresses and | comforters producing asuffocating smoke, The prisoners yvelled at the top of their voices for help. For an hour they were In this predicament befors any attention was paid them. | Finally an aiarm of fire was turned in | by citizens attracted to them, and this | brought the jailer and firemen to the res- | cue. The prisoners were locked in Indi- | vidual cells and unable to reach the apartment where the fire started. In an- | other half hour the prisoners would have been incinerated. gt John G. Nichols Dead. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2{.—John G. Nich- ols, one of the best-known and oldest residents of California, died on Saturday night at his home in this city. Conges. tion of the lungs was the cause of death. The deceased was 86 vears of age. Mr. Nichols came to California long before the first discovery of gold. He was the first Mayor of Los Angeles to be elected after the admission of California to the Union. — o Maryland's Senatorial Contest. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 24—The ninth ballot for United States Senator to-day . 2; Shaw, 17. An until to-morrow was then 'ua(e#mrnmem | that F. J. Mulvihill, of the Democratic leaders against Hanna, was also on the train with Hollenbeck. Archer and Mulvihill got Hollenbeck's telegrams and Mulvihill answered them, signing Hollenbeck’s name to messages sent to Major Dick. Detective Miller was recalled to ex- plain the telephone talks of Boyce with Major Rathbone and others at Hanna's headquarters. Mr. Miller shadowed Boyce back to Columbus, but the trail was lost in the latter city. 1Boyce and Hollenbeck only stopped there between trains. The Senate Committee will continue its work at Columbus. Thirty wit- nesses have been examined here since last Friday, most of them being em- ployed in the Gibson House and the telegraph or telephone offices, and of the Union Savings and Trust Com- pany. Jared P. Pliss, Allen O. Meyers, Sr., and E. H. Archer were the prin- cipal other witnesses. They returned to Columbus to-night with the com- mittee. The attorneys and members of the House Committee also returned. As the evidence of Representative John C. Otis and Colonel Thomas Campbell will be very lengthy they were not called here, but Mr. Otis will likely be the next witness at Columbus. Chairman Burke announced to-night that as soon as the committee was through with all the willing witnesses proceedings will at once be begun to bring all of the unwilling witnesses before the bar of the Senate for pun- ishment for contempt. 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