The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANC CO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1898. 5 WILLET r BEARS OUT THE STORY OF MOORE Makes a Full Confes-| sion of His Own Guilt. / Tells of the Murder of C. A. Andrews at Baden. Prevented by His Accomplice From Slaying Farriter Also. HIS BOASTS TO A FRIEND. | | N i A Condemned Man Exonerated !)-," the Culprit's Ac Kil ount of the 3. Spectal Dispatch to Tha Call. | SANTA CLARA, March 2.~In the | c s flight from the scene of | t A. Andrews in 2t Baden last r arrest pected of hav- that affair, be- | rd Gabriel | entually became | ed all the facts | the details of | e had eluded | exoner- ¢ under sen- | tts made the sensa- riel .thought he Gabriel to the authorities, sary information ere Willetts made had- left for other the nece > place wt he is clear and replete | tend to show he had told nothing but the | who was at that time | Johm" Henderson: ot November, 1897, | arming near Salida, On the following to and went Ripon, 1 work,” and, as I wanted s dig potdtoes on my place, I e him to work on the ranch. b k the same day: cen working for me about n days, 2bout ‘people in Folsem. ed to know a. good ellows that he knew. He then t he had just got out of Fol- h had be 1lso said that he was nd that:it suited him to ed spot. ‘Then he told empted robbery of the at Baden and of the kill- ws. As near as I can re- 1d Sam Moore, allas Raymond, yund Baden all evening waiting r 1 opportunity to rob. the ‘Grand Hotel, which was run by Pat Farriter. We had to lay around there until 2 o’clock in the morning before we could into the place. Then, as we were | ing to enter, the dogs began to bark 1 woke Farri Farriter raised his bedroom window, and wanted to know what we wanted. We sald we wanted some whi Farriter said we could not have it—that he was closed for the | night. “I was acquainted with:the house, as T used to stop there, and I went up the back stairs with Moore.: I knew' that iter slept in one of the corner WINTERS IS AN TS SAYS INNOCENT MAN WILLETTS, IN JAIL HERE, CONFESSES HIS GUILT. 4 + + + + I + & &+ 3+ + + + 4 + + + o ¢ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + willetts, altas Leslle, who is accused of participation in the mur- der of Charles A. Andrews at Baden some time ago, and who was ar- rested in Arizona, was brought to this city last night and locked up in the “tanks” in the City Prison. Willetts was accompanied by Sheriff Mansfleld of San Mateo, through whose efforts the alleged murderer was apprehended. recy was maintained regarding the arrival of The greatest Mansfield and his prisoner. After embarking from the ferryboat they took & hack and drove to police headquarters, where Willetts was closely questioned. ' He made a complete confession, which was reduced to writing. - Evidently satisfled that he had told everything, Mansfield then escorted him to the City Prison, where he was registered under an assumed name. The prison officials were instructed by Mansfield not Ssmy @ word” to the reporters, as he was anxious that Willetts’ arri- ould mot be known. Just what Willetts sald in his confession, Sheriff Mansfleld and the detectives who were present refuse to say. They admit, however, he.“told everything” and did not attempt to shield himself. 3 A short time ago C. M. Raymond, alias Moore, who is under sen- tence of death for his participation in the murder, made an alleged o tession. exonerating a man named Winters, who has also been con- visted of the crime, and implicating Willetts. The latter, he claimed, fired the shot that killed Andrews. When asked by Sheriff Mansfield if’' Raymond’s confession was true, Willetts vehemently replied that his alleged accomplice was a —— — liar. ‘He is trying to save his own neck,” he is said to have remarked. it until my. turn comes and I will show who murdered Andrews.” Sheriff Mansfield leaves with s prisoner this morning for Redwood > Where he will at once be tried for his participation in the murder. « the cowardly murder of Andrews, the Sheriff of San Mateo ted by Captain of Detectives Bohen and his men, has After the killing Willetts came to ociated with the tramps who infest In some way the local police County 1 been striving to apprehend Willetts this city and for several days as + at the foot of Sixth street. the “‘dump: learned of his whereabouts and a cc ncerted effort was made to appr hend him. Willettsevidently became suspicious, and with two “hobos boarded a freight car, which was bound for San Jose. The authorities of the Garden City were notified, but -despite their efforts the alleged murderer eluded. them. Just as Sheriff Mansfield was about giving up all hope of ever cap- ARROGANCE OF Curt Note Addressed to Water Company Refuses to Informs the date the Los Angeles City Water Com- pany has not supplied the Council with company has, the request had been referred to the company’s attorney information it inserted a default clause the question aris ) cil going to do about it? | formation, CAN THIS BE A TRUE TALE?, A Startling Story About the Excommunication of Rev. McGlynn. THE MONOPOLY the City Council of Los Angeles. - Kansas City Paper Says the Vatican Never Acted on His Case. Furnish an Inventory of Improvements, officials That Their De- mand Has Been Referred to Its Attorneys. By the Publication the Relation Is Traced Very Close to Arch- bishop Ireland. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. March 2—Up to NEW YORK, March 2.—A special to the Herald from Kansas City, Mo., says: The World to-night prints a story concerning the excommunication of Dr. McGlynn of New York, in 1886, which it alleges was divulged to-day | for the first time by friend of Dr. McGlynn in Kansas City.” The story js to the effect that Arch-| | bishop Ireland, when at <ae “atican | recently, expresed to the Pope his | pleasure that the ban on McGlynn had | been removed, whereupon the Pope re- | plied with amazement that there never | had been a ban on McGlynn; that he | had never- been excommunicated by | Papal authcrity. It is further stated that the investigation then set on foot revealed the fact that the cablegram, | under which McGlynn was excommu- nicated, was forged. The story concludes: “For the sake of peace, which had been restored to the Catholic Church in America, the | matter was never given to the publi and when they learned the World w in possession of the facts, several Kan- sas City clergymen urged that the LOS ANGELES, the information requested over three weeks ago—an inventory of the im- provements the water company has made to the city’s plant in the past thirty years, and also an inventory of what the plant consisted of at the time the corporation tcok it. The water by a note, stated that to ncil requested this At the time the ¢ n embodying it. Now in the resolut What is the Coun- The water company is clearly in de- fault in failing to give the desired in- which is essential to any proposition looking to the purchase of | the improvements at a figure to be fixed by a board of arbitration. The subterfuge of referring the matter to the company's attorneys is a thin one. It has been used time and again by the corporation to avoid doing some- | | | to ENDS LIFE WITH John A. Eubanks of Sole- Had Failed to Effect a Recon- Swallows the Drug and Then Lies SALINAS, reached this city to-day that John A. Fubanks, an old resident of Monterey County, committed suicide | afternoon in Soledad by drinking the | contants of a two-ounce bottle of car- bolic acid. Eubanks had been away from town for two or three weeks and returned only yesterday morning. first visits he made after returning was | a divorce from him last December. is rapposed that Eubanks made over- tures for a reconciliation, in which he | was unsuccessful. | Early yesterday afternoon Eubanks | went to Dr. Stover's office and asked for some carbolic acid. supposed it was for a sore on one of Eubanks’ hands. obtained and pocketed some laudanum was asked for, fused. Eubanks left the store and went keeper to let him take a rest on the | hay, giving as a reason that he quite tired. STRIKERS IV~ AN TGLY MooD Le CARBOLIC ACID Grave Situation at Grange Mine in Trinity. dad Takes a Dose of Poison. The Company Determined to Resist the Demands of the Men. ciliation With His Di- vorced Wife. Bloodshed May Follow an Attemp; to Put on a Force of Coolies. Down to Die in a Livery Stable Manger. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, March 2.—The strike site uation at La Grange mine near Wea« verville is assuming a grave aspect. Reports of a more or less alarming; nature are coming to town regarding’ the hostile attitude of the striking! miners, and it is feared that if any attempt is made to fill their places with Chinese or other underpaid laborers{ there will be bloodshed. The strikers are more determined than ever to re- sist all attempts to open the mine with outside help. Superintendent Radford has reported the situation by wire to Hippolyte Du- . secretary of the company, with/ in the Mills building. and in re- The doetor | 1, \cas instructed to stand firm an resist the demands of the strikers. Efforts are being made to eneacal miners from Shasta County, but it isf doubtful if a new force can be ob- tained in this quarter, as their fellow® miners here express strong sympathvj for the strikers. The La Grange Company is a heav- Spectal Dispatch to The Call. March 2.—The report yesterday The motive is not known. One of the see his former wife, who procured It | After the acid was but was promptly re- a livery stable, where he asked the | felt | thing the Council had ordered or in- | story be suppressed. They declared it| ~About ten minutes after the man lay i 3 G ssed. a vy capitalized concern, incorporate structed it to do. What the citizens | would reopen old wounds and undo all | down Frank Miller, tha DrOBHISEOE 0P| o e Rt e < d A COTOrads: Bares pf are asking now is ill the Council | that Satolli accomplished while here.” | the stable, heard groans coming from | D La Grange, of Paris, is the presi< enter a default on the water company’s contract? The Council last Monday acted very independently, and it may do so again. The syndicated daily press and the FALLS DEAD AT HIS WORK. Sudden Passing of Frank K. Alzina | Eubanks. the man in the throes of death. empty bottle lay by his side. His shoes and coat were off and the latter had been used as a pillow. Going to the spot he saw dent. The hydraulic mines owned by An the company are the most extensive in | operation on the coast, and a vast amount of capital has been expended in, improvements. The shutdown entails a ‘A physician | | sang later | He was apparently | when one: day we | n:released on Ad- | is was what he told me: | the fugitive, word reached h turing held pending th zona, and would he Mateo County. B R R R e O e S R R R R PR R R L SRRt S S P e hahd then make a big turn. We started for | this room, but by that time the house | was pretty well awakened. i 4T leveled my gun to hold the people | up who had made their.appearance. Some one grabbed my hand and then two others jumped on me, so that I got no-chance to shoot. A general scuffie | followed.” While I was in the scuffle 1| thought it was all up with me, and I out to Moore to pump it into I told him that I was down and I lost my hat and coat !in’ the scuffle. Moore fired several times, but had one or two shots left in his gun. In the scuffle I also lost my revolver. I did not-do any shooting at all, as T had no chance to do so. When Moore fired there was a gen- |'eral yell and. movement among the peo- fle, and this gave me a chance to Joosen my hold and get away. Moare also got away with me. . After we had} gone about 200 yards I asked Moore for | his revolver; as I wanted to go back | | and Kill Farriter, because I had it in for him, as he Giu’me out of some |'monéy when' I worked for him. Moore would not let me have the revolver. “ “We then started to leave the neigh- | borhood. We went back of Holy Cross | Cemetery, and there Moore made the roposition. that we better separate. | [ Moore went: to San Francisco and I} | went south. I got to an Italian milk ranch and went in and told them that | | T was drunk and had lost my hat, coat and blankets. They gave me my break- | fast and an old hat and coat. I had to| wait until daylight for breakfast. “When I again got out on the road | I met a wagon and got a ride. I saw many people looking for me. They | passed me on the road. I rode in this wagon as far as it went. I then walked | a little ways and ran across a homeless | dog. The dog followed me. That was what kept those who were searching | for me from suspecting who I was. | They:thought T was working on one of | the farms around there. | | # 7 1eft the county road and kept off | of all roads, going across the country | | from ranch to ranch. I walked night and -day until I got as far as Tracy. | | Here I got a job on the levee, driving | a scraping team. I worked here three | days. Then I came on to Ripon.”” | Gabriel then continued with further | | particulars about Willetts, as follows: “He said he had worked in Baden for | | two weeks trying to get the lay of the | Western Meat Company, so as to hold | up the paymaster, but he could not | make it work. Moore had arranged to rob the Electric Laundry in San Fran- | them. to shoot high. | he got out of Folsom he held up a | passed many nights near the Emman- | me his finger, which | also agreed with what Willetts had told | defended Winters in the trial that re- im that he had been caught in Ari- water company seem to have lost their PO S R L e e R R R R R R e R R RSt th g e arrival of an officer from San influence and control over several Councilmen. +4++4+4+++++++++++++ RAILROAD MANAGERS trick he had on hand at Baden. He UNABLE TO AGREE. told Moore that the men paid their | CHICAGO, March 2.—The general board that night at Baden and that there was between $400 and $500 there. “‘He told me that the second day after passenger agents of the Western roads were in session to-day, and after some discussion announced they were ready to meet with the officials of the Cana- dian Pacific at any time and place agreed upon by General Agents Roberts of the Erie and Daniels of the New York Central, who have conferred with the officers of the Cana- dian Pacific and who say that in their commission man who lives in Oakland and got $130 from him. Along in the first part of October, he said, he held up five or six men on Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets and he had uel Church. and often thought of Dur- rant and the murders he had com- mitted there. Occasionally, he said, he had to take a trip to San Jose and do a trick there. “Willetts said there was a third party | with them on the night of the Baden assenger Asso- ciation to notify Roberts of their ¢ them that the We on, and he wired tern roads would at- Passenger | Déaniels and | tend any meetihg that might be called | | at Santa Cruz. | SANTA CRUZ, March 2—Frank K. Al- | zina, one of the best-known young men {in Santa Cruz, dropped dead this morn- ing at about 5 o'clock. He was appar- ently in the best of health and spirits, and was at his work in Harrington & Halliday's mea market cutting meat when in an instant he fell to the floor and expired. He was the son of Francisco Alzina, who was one of the earliest settlers in this city and a Castilian by birth. He was a native of Santa Cruz and 40 years of age. He married Miss Lora Effey, a sister of ex-Mayor Robert Effey, and is survived by the widow and two sons. | |~ The funeral will take place on Friday. ! i | | WILL DECIDE AS TO ! THE HAWAIIAN TREATY. WASHINGTON, March 2.—On Saturday next the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will decide whether or not it is the best policy to abandon the Ha- wailan annexation treaty and take up the bill providing for annexation. was summoned, but before he arrived | Eubanks had breathed his last. From those who best knew the de- ceased it was learned that he had often complained of heart trouble, and dur- ing his caxeer in this county had had many business troubles. He had lived in Soledad for over twenty years, and was one of the most respected citizens | there. He kept a hotel there for a long | while. He was somewhat intemperate in his habits, and of late .years had followed no regular occupation. Five or six children survive him. He was a native of Arkansas and about 52 years of age. loss of $1000 a day. This has been a bad | season in Trinity County, as the snow- fall has not been heavy enough to as= sure a good supply of water for ther many operating gravel mines, though the La Grange Company, by the ex- penditure of several hundred thousand dollars in digging canals and laying siphon pipe lines, is now enabled to work throughout most of the summer months. This strike, how#ver, 1S every= where regarded as most unfortunate. Of Interest to the Coast. WASHINGTON, March 2.—A postoffice has been established at Elkton, Cal., and Thomas Reave appointed postmaster. Pensions have been granted as follo Califorhia: Original—Charles C. Cragin, Campbell, $6; Freeman W. Bunnell, Berkeley, $6; Edward A. Falvey, San Francisco, $8. Increase—Thomas Malfan, Life Imprisonment for Rex. MARYSVILLE, March 2—W. Shannon Rex, charged with the murder of Hector Green at the Cliff House, on the Yuba | City road, November 8 last, was found guilty of murder in_the first degree, with | Cherokee, $6 to $5. fife sentence, by a jury here to-day. The| Washington: Original—Willilam Spran crime committed was the outgrowth-of a | gle, Sprangle, $6. Original, widows, etc.— drunken brawl. Rex was an old soldier, | Harriet M. Newell, Ceniralia, 38. a debris watchman and-constable of Sut-| Oregon: Original—Samuel F. Kerns, Eu= | ter County. | gene, $6. robbery, but that he did not take any part in the affair. This third man was a tenderfoot, he said, and a bum, and he did not.want him on the deal. Moore, wanted him in, but Willetts objected and the third man was not with them when they went to the Grand Hotel to rob it. Willetts did not mention the name of this third party, but thought | he would be arrested on suspicion of | being implicated with him and Moore. “In Tracy he got hold of a newspaper, anad saw that Moore had been arrested. He said he thought it would be all day | with him, and that they would catch | the second party in a few days, as he| was an ex-convict, but he said they | would have a pretty hard time catch- ing him. “Willetts said he was the man who | was down in the scuffle, and showed | had been hurt| from the trigger of his revolver when | it was torn from his grasp. He said | there was a fellow in the scuffle with a | lamp, and he was afraid this man had | recognized him. He said it would make no difference to him if he had to kill| two or three men, as they could do no | more to him. He did not seem to care whether he was hanged or not. 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