The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1898, SHERMAN CRINGED AND PLEADED TO BE SAVED FROM IMPENDING FINANCIAL RUIN AND PERSONAL DISGRACE Dreading Indictment by the Grand Jury He Wished That He Were Dead. The Wrecker Said That the Los Angeles Railroad Submitted to Blackmail to Save the Two Banks. | | In all but on of the concluding let- | staring the bank and the electric rail- to the managers | Way in the face. The pertinent parts d the People’s ©f the letter are as follows: -con- .08 An- = Friday. .: Your good letter at I thank you very much for it. Bank the My Dear F. hand. discussed geles electric road and r | 1 will try and be worthy of the high condition during the of the ;'nm[phm(-nl )snu}pai" xlxlw in it. 1 will ShFt5 Bank = R Ty to get to'S. F. Vill stay there one Pacific Banl B etters Shet- | day. See your brother, Mr. White, D. man himself admits the worthless char- Mr. McKee dnd-the others. I un- acter of the bo which he had in- ;k‘rsmnd lmey m‘;m"io me for not com- roed the McDonalds to accept. = Not| 108, uD there. Wl see what ‘your duced the Ml ds to accept. ~NOU| }roiner and D, S. think first. ‘hicago the no practical | can keep us indefinitely, I. e., these e a con-| 24 bonds from foreclosing. Please Gy & : hink of this should have gone. stan sury of the | Yery important that I go—a week agc erman had | but T did not dare leave here before .r cajoled or | fearing receiver certificate matter. I toEn e | might Tuin us. Truly, M. H. he frankly ad-|SHERMAN DECLARES THAT WOODARD riod of ninety days | the ra 2d paid out $20,000 more | than it had taken In another he | declared that the project had cost an | enormous sum money. but having | mits t RECEIVED $1000 T0 LEAVE THE BANKS ALONE. Woodard again appears in menacing attitude in Sherman’s next letter. Sher- inched it would have been |man declares that ‘“Jayhawker! had to treat So much money | received $1000 to keep his hands off the .k into the scheme that | Bilil(lli. but :]hu[ he was not mined to get as much |° and wanted more. Sherman e slri\'g:(fo:s\n‘vessi‘_'ow to Dick and told the young Ay | banker to beware of the newspaper & f defeat. | man. Excerpts from the letter are as -iod of threatening di conspirator claime | follows: Friday a. m. at the mercy | .My Dear Friend: By the way that the mMETCY | man Mr. W., fs. I am told, showing forced to pay | around an envelope from the Pacific | Bank addressed to him, and claims to vent an expose g & . have a letter from 'you. He_ has have ruined not only the | claimed many other things, so I am banks. Sherman -de-| told. I never meet him. It is stated clared that he dreaded an investigation | that he hias been to Spence’s Bank and ded tha I el e dvised him not to put any money in whose object would be to diSCOVEr | {he Pacific Bank or have anything to whether or not bribe money had been | do with it; that the P. B. is rotten, paid to the City Council of Los Ange- | glc, ete, T understand he has beer £ 4 2 o e 1e other banks in town and talked les or the Legislature of this State. The e b O ndita ke bank wr wished primarily to se not give him a chance to get avoid any public knowledge of the in- | 2ny black and white from the Pacific > 4 S ey Bank. Of course, I know you said timate connection between the Pacific | nothing, still L hate to have Bim heve Bank and the Los Angeles Electric | even a P. B. letter-head or envelope or Railroad. The condition of the road | 2 piece of paper with your name on it, > - 5 3 5 | as he shows it around so. I am going was such that if the bank were con-| to try very hard and not have to meet nected with the project it would be| him. ; i most seriously injured in the financial | - T am golng to have Mr. Clark or some one else present to hear a world. One of the most s8nsational| ‘is sald. T dowt mrencss iherme kihat letters ever written by Sherman was | and lle about any talks we have. I e s ey The % _| will also try and be very kind penned ov n alias. When the south- | R Mmm:t{i) ern schemer wrote he was in fear .of but my judgment s that the hest financial ruin and personal dishonor. ng is not” to anything (o do He believed that his enemies had sur- | ,xhfif‘n’fi:f"’\’p ““’ve‘;,r..'}m.'.”‘.rhffi'.: rounded him and were more powerful | for him he will quit and try and bleed some other fellows who do fear him. And depend upon it, he got $1000 in cash out of this company, and the only thing we asked of him was that he let the S. F. banks alone, and he was meaner than ever. He will take all we will give him and ask for more. I than he and he dreaded that the grand jury of this city would make an honest nvestigation of his affairs. Under the ress of mental torment he pleaded for mercy and assistance, cringing, cr ng and begsing for aid in his distress. | told him plainly (anguage) that I did | not fear him, that rather enjoyed SERMANS ~BAREFAGED - ADMISSION | the les begtclh of me (of courte, 190 THAT HIS BONDS WERE USELESS. | it a 2 Well, I will do just as you say and hawker” again thrust his ag- think best for me to do in all these He is such a liar. His talk ssive personality into the affairs of | ? With kindest re- Sherman, who thought Dick McDonald M. H. might have been influenced by Wood- gards, I am, truly, THE LOS ANGELES SCHEMER ADMITTED ard’s talk. Fearing that such was the pase man _penned a long letter | THAT HIS ROAD WAS LOSING blackguarding Woodard and tr | >onvince the McDonalds that he was | MONEY. still allve toithelrir When Sherman wrote again he indi- cated very clearly how badly the Los |'Angeles electric road was situated and how in ninety days it had paid out $20,000 more than it had taken in. Ex- cerpts from the letter are as follows: Friday night. My Dear Friend: Boat has agreed to see you in San Francisco and to get I My Dear Frien H. Jr. did not seem quite as cordial r day when 1 visited S.'F., but t account for it in any other by the faet that that man ad infl ced him ainst does seem strange t rall e My ey g . you to make me come down with coin T e on 1o Photls 20d Qs save both €IVing it ‘eh? looking over the Phoenix water works Lealiy Wris foom panyERas HOR U0 L 10 with a view to buying us all out and ave. e have pald out during the turning $94,000 in cash over to the Pa- past ninety days fully $20,000 more cific k. B “day 1 keep trying than we have taken fn. It has only . o 3 been by the most awful trying that I and thinking, and I-am tzying to mas R B i e b S ture a plan to.help the Pacific Bank e , get its $06,000 out of the Valley street T 'i,“’,,;"r‘.;’;“","%,f," he e i railway bonds, and I.am working -all courage. - God only knows how I have the time. Very truly, M..H. S. tried. I got $10,000 out of one man and am working on others. There is a glory and joy in trying; in seeing what the Lord will bring out for us iIf we try. Every day I think of you. Good night. M. H. “THE ROAD HAS COST US A FEARFUL PILE OF MONEY.” In his next letter Sherman himself showed the character of the crazy scheme into which he had inveigled tha McDonalds. He outlined the desperate condition under which the Los Angeles road had been built and after hun- dreds of thousands of dollars had been expended he declared that in some way and in some time the road would come out all right. This indefinite promise must have been poor consolation to the | McDonalds. Excerpts from the letter are as follows: L. A., Saturday. My Dear Friend: Referring fo the road here I know that no one has reals ized what we have had to contend with. Nearly every wheel on all of the ' large number of cars that the rolling mills furnished us has had to be re- built. Nearly all'of the machinery has had to be replaced. And the electrical appliances on the overhead work for ' nearly thirty miles of trackage have had to be put in new. I am not com- ' plaining; T am only giving you the sit- uation. Oh, how much money it takes; I, E. FARNUM CAUTIONED TO KEEP A LARGE CASH BALANCE TO DECEIVE. Sherman’s next letter was written from Sacramento on a letter-head of C: C. Allen, adjutant general of the State. Sherman deluded McDonald #fth more promises of an early dispo- sition of the Los Angeles Electric Rail- way bonds. The promises as a matter >f course were not kept. The crafty manipulator also writes that he had told J. Farnum to be sure and carry arge cash balances until the scare was sver. In closing Sherman did so with 2 new touch of flattery. He said he ~as sure ‘that Dick would be Gover- aor some day and Dorn would be on | ais staff. The letter is as follows: Thursday a. m. My Dear Friend: As you will see I am in good compa General_Allen is an old Los Angeles friend. 1 tele- graphed F. V. from Sacramento that I Would go on to New York soon and talk all over with him. If we canmake this go, then I do think we sheuld get your bonds all sold within ninety days thereafter, after full consolidation. If you and self can so manage. it as to | ut $600,000 in the vaults of the P. B. t will be 2 grand feaiher in your cap and in M. H.’s too. God teach us how. God give us wisdom is what 1 keep saying all* the time. I am awfully bills, expense, pay out, pay.out. But worried_over Woodard mixing up in we hope the worst Is over. ‘We have Riverside matters. " do so _hope been thinking so for a long time. It there will be no break there, for if is no use to %uarrel or to hlame the rolling mills. It is done and we have agreed with them to submit, and hayv- ing so agreed we must stand by it, eh? But it has cost us a fearful pile of money. Carload after carload of there is I fear the enemy will try to mix us all up In it. 1 have just written a long letter to Farnum telling him how very kind and true you are to all of us, and ad- vising him to carry a big cash bal- wheels and irons and machinery and ance all the time until the scare is | electrical apparatus have come in. It over. I tell him that if anything oc- | Would never have done toweaken or to hesitate, for if the road once stopped : Jour bonds and every one’s else would ave been Injured. No, It has taken a tremendous amount of nerve hers. Do | not worry F. V. about Los Angeles because {h some way somehow all will come out O. K. Hutriedly, M. H. WOODARD. THREATENED TO HAVE THE _RAILROAD SCHEMERS INDICTED. “fhe vision /of & Grind Jury flash itself before the frightened r{nfln %‘3 M. H. Sherman and he wrote as follows: THE GREAT MANPULATOR WAS FEAR-| sy Dear Friend: moash & W FUL OF DMPENDING RUI. | threatening. He threatens to find some one who has a share of stock The next letter from Sherman was| OF,%0ond to investigate us and find written when the ‘eccentric manipula- or realized himself that ruln was curs in Riverside then the enemy will try to put long and sensational arti- cles in newspapers south and try to hurt Pacific Bank, etc., etc., and that we must all stand by. In union there is strength, and it is only by all pull- ing together as one, standing by each other when the enemy gets us g reling among ourselves, eh? that' we can win. Please tell D. 8. that I was sorry not to see him before! leaving. | He is & grand, noble, ‘tre fellow. You | will be Governor oné of these daysind D. S. on your staff, Good-by. out if there has been a dollar of our ‘oney spent with Legislatures or City Councils and to get every one of us THE GREAT EANK-WBE‘BKER GAMBLED FOR SUGCESS, In one of his letters written to Frank V. McDonald, M. H. Sherman admitted that a tremendous sum of money had been sunk in the Los Angeles Electric Ralil- «JAYHAWKER ” the next letter. crafty road. Sherman, however, declared to the young banker that it would Have been useless to hesitate or.turn back after so much money had been spent. He, therefore, went deeper Into the scheme and could give no greater encour- agement than a hope that in some way and at some time everything would come out all right. The letter in which this confidence of the gambler is ex- pressed is given In fac simile above: indicted by Grand Jury, etc., etc., etc. e you. Please show this, If you He is a bad, a very bad ma Ir. e, to Mr. Johns. Crank 1 see every day. He is very kind and helps us in ever He is a very bright man and has a pull here with so many people. Please don’t work too hard, and please not worry about anything here. All will come out O. K., sure. Woodard threatens to go to San Francisco to try and worry us and etc., etc., until he can get money. M. H. 8. DECLARED THAT HE WOULD RUIN THEM ALL. Woodard is still Sherman’s theme in The eccentric but projector of the Los Angeles road outlines to Frank McDonald what purports to;be an alleged demand of ‘Woodard for $1400. Excerpts from the letter are as follows: _had now come to get it. My Dear friend: About 10 o'clock the man who calls himself Colonel Wood- ard walked into my:room and 1 had two hours of about as strange a con- versation as I ever remember listen- ing to in my life. He uttered language that our attorneys tell us is a pure case of blackmail and that we can have him arrested for such. He gave us a \'erx raphic account of his be- ing aske g_v gdr. Johns to call upon you at the bank and of your telling lnlm that you were in financial trouble and that you need money very much and that you had asked his aid and assistance in selling bonds and said that vou told him if you could have six months to get ready in you knew you could weather the storm. He told us of his wonderful influence with Senator Falr and of the power he had to ruin us all and intimated that he would have stayed to accomplish his dark design if you had not begged him to leave town and return to L. A. He told us that %u had said I would ay over this $1400 to him as soon as ge would come after it, and that he T hung on to my tongue In good shape and looked him right in the eye and told him that the street rallway was never in as fine financial condi- .tion as to-day, that the road was pay- ing excellently, that we were fully satisfied with everything and. that as far as the San Francisco banks were concerned, it seemed to me very strange that you should make any such statements, because I know you have on hand over a million dollars in cash on the 1st of July; that you were carrying very large balances and were in excellent condition. He looked me right in the eye during the whole conversation and had a most pleulxfl:fi and impressive manner, and if I h not known what a bad and untruthful man he is I would have really believed he was talking the truth. Really I never felt so humiliated in my life as o hear a fellow like him talk so glibly and tell such lies about people as he did about us all. When he left the room he seemed very pleasant, and vet 1 suppose he will go away and talk just as nasty as ever. We, thought the wisest thing was for us to keej our shirt on and do nothing at presen and to keep our business as private as we could. He plainlv stated to me that if T would not give him blood money that he would give me trouble. I told him that I had come on this coast twenty years ago a poor boy and that durin these years I had paid my hones debts, and if I had made mistakes I was sorry for it and was going to u-g to learn to do better, but that I did not see how giving him $1400 would help matters. 1 am very truly, . H. 8 N. Later—That dirty fellow Woodard is here again, but I think we have him coppered and so fixed that he can't hurt. Mr. Johns did a lot toward closing his mouth. Will explain when | fSHEBMAN‘S GREAT SCHEME TO HOOD- | | than dishonest reports. | in London. | letter of untruths. WINK THE McDONALDS. M. H. Sherman’s sycophancy to the McDonalds was never better illustrated 1. letter that will follow. Dick McDonald made every possible e: fort to spy upon Sherman and to learn just what was going on in the offices of the Los Angeles Electric Railway Com- pany. collugion with Sherman and rendered A few men told the truth, however, and among them was a man named Perkes, who was commis- sioned by McDonald to go to Los An- geles and discover the condition of the roads as a preliminary measure in a scheme for floating the electric bonds Perkes was an able fellow | and reported to McDonald that the af- | fairs of the electric railway were | wretchedly conducted and that Sher- man did everything prevent any in the Most of- these spies were epistle are as follows: Friday Noon, My Dear Friend: showed Mr. Crank _your beautl kind letter to me because 1 thought you would like me to do so, because you sald some very nice things about me and beause I know he likes you. Mr. Crank and I both agree that Mr. Perkes was all wrong in the statement he made to you. Both our books and cable books are in perfect shape. 1 wrote Mr. Perkes several letters of introduc- tion and paid for two telegrams to Yuma for him to find out where Nor- ton was, etc., and Mr, Crank and my- self gave him several hours of our time and showed him every courtesy in our power, and he forgot to come back and thank us or say good-by, and if he sald anything in'San Francisco that is unpleasant we are very sorry. He seemed a very pleasant gentleman, and we certalnly’ tried everythtng in" our wer to do just as he wanted us to do, ut only thére are certain facts with regard to our company (i. e., what its earnings and expenses are and other things of that nature) that Mr. Crank and myself thought unwise to give any one or to have peddled about un- less the party to whom we gave them we were sure meant business. You mey be very sure that any one who comes here with a letter from your- sélf can command the whole time and attention of us both to the fuli extent of our ability. 1 regret very much if a young gentle- man with whom we were much pleased ghould ‘go to San Francisco nd any faults with either of s, sy if you have written thing to ¥. V. that {s unpleasant in matter I do wish you would please be sure and set us right on the proposition, because none of us are to blame in any way. I thank you very much for your kind letter, and we do not blame you at all for what you haye written about Mr. _Perkes, but thank you much for this opportunity to make this explanatio which we could not have done unl you had been kind enmexgh to have Lt us know, and we wanted you to know that we stand ready to do everything YO“ ‘wish us to do in every wn.x. % ] etter was so nice and Kin thought you would like to me show that to Mr. Crank, which I did. Mr. Crank is feeling very kindly to- ward everybody, and I think and he in a very powerful ition, and one ‘where he can do us all {reat deal of fiwd or a great deal of harm. Wi ndest T th: ards, and again for frankly telling in in his power to thorough Investigation. McDonald told Sherman what he had heard and the latter penned a cringing Excerpts from the e BLACKMAIL WAS PAID Moses H. Sherman admits over his own signature that he submitted to the ex- tortion of $1060, which was paid out of the treasury of the Los Angeles El tric Railroad. This money, he declares, was. givén to Colonel J...H. Woodar with an understanding that Woodard would not harass the Pacific Bank and the People’s Home Savings Bank by threatening to expose ‘their unsafe condi- In a letter, part of which is given in fac simile above, Sherman declared that Woodard was after miore money and should not receive it. | tion. ; @ Captain Nevills' name was next called by the clerk, and he ascended to fthe wit- ness chair to tell his story. He tdld about meeting ‘Mrs. Williams when she was a typewriter in_the Palace Hotel, and how he had called upon her subsequently at her home and on a few: occasions he had remained over night. Attorney George W. Baker, on behalf of the defendants, then endeavored to establish more full the relations that had existed betwee Nevills and Elsie Williams, but was met with a storm of objections from the prose- cution. To this Attorney Baker answered: 1 intend to prove that Captain Nevills has been living with Elsie Williams for four years and that this money alleged to have been extorted from the complainant was simply pald by Nevills to this de- fendant to in a measure compensate her for a great wrong he had dome her. aleo intend to prove that Nevills seduced Mrs. Williams under promise of mar- rlage: that he promised her he would get a divorce from his wife and marry her, and in event he could not get the divorce he would care for her and compensate Ber for the sinful life he had led her to Notwithstandi Judge Cook s the case proceec the intent of counsel ned the objection and A letter, purporting to have been writ- C @ean m , ten by Nevills to AMrs. Williams, in. a [ measure corroborating Bakers ' state- <<, - ments, it is said, was next produced, but the court ordercd an adj an adjournment until this morning at which time it will' be read. DOES NOT KNOW MAGNETIC COURSES S0 TESTIFIED PILOT McNEIL OF THE PETERS. Official Investigation Into the Recent Bay Collision Will Be Con- cluded To-Day. The main incident of the investigation into the Peters-Czarina bay disaster ves- . terday morning was the startling’admis- slon by Pilot McNeil of the Peters that he was ignorant of the magnetic courses as laid down by the chart; and ‘would have to refresh his mémory in that re- gard by reference thereto. In reply to & question by Inspector Bolles as to what course he was steering from his wharf to >— Angel Island on the night of the disas- (o —_— ter he answered northwest one-quarter north. y “Was that the correct magnetic course?” asked Captain Bolles. “It was the proper course on the Pet- ers,” replied McNeil. On' Captain Bolles demanding a direct reply to his question, McNeil would not admit that it was correct and reluctantly confessed that he did not know the courses by heart, and that he steered by time and according to variations. ‘When asked what he did In case of fogs he said that if he made a mistake Le would back and try it over again. A suppressed _titter went around the room when McNeil spoke of a ship'squar- ter being on her bow, and Bolles said, “tnat is a new onme on me. I always thought it was on the stern.” ‘When Bulgerasked if McNeil had blown | one whistle when he first saw the lights of the approaching vessel and then port- ed his helm would he not have had the waters between Angel Island and the Berkeley shore to navigate his steamer, he answered yes, but would have crossed the Czarina’s bow by so doing. A little tilt occurred between Inspector Bulger and Superintendent Corcoran when Corcoran charged Bulger. with. ask- ing_questions which he had read in, the newspapers as coming from e Coroner's inquest. This Bulger strenuously: denied, and on reading the record it was found that Bulger was in the right and Cor- coran apologized. The first witness called was Joseph York, lamptrimmer on the Czarina, who testified he had lighted the side and mast- head lights and placed them in position at | sundown. Corcoran tried to show that the headlight was run up unlighted, it being intended to lower and light it atsundown. his the witness emphatically denied: | Corcoran said a number of witnesses had | testified that the masthead light was not burning until the vessels came together. TInspector Bolles said such was hot' the ase. Captain Holdsworth had: Stated: hat he simply did not see the headlight, vessels struck. SRR R Sument between Corcoran atia At ank as to whether the first .ofli- vas on board the Czarina or Rot was. So% Short by Inspector Balles, who stated that Captain Seaman, a licensed man, was | in charge of the Czarina on the evenins 2 | T0 SAVE THE BANKS. Perkes and the other matter, etc., etc., Iam very truly, M. H. SHERMAN. THE ARCH-CONSPIRATOR CRINGED AND BEGGED FOR MERCY IN THE DREAD OF EXPOSURE. Some of the letters of Moses H. Sher- man are of such a remarkable char- acter that one would hesitate to be- lieve that they were written by a sane man if it were not for the indubit- able evidences of penmanship and asso- ciation. Sherman at all times was hys- terical and at all times supremely self- ish. He had worked himself inte the Pacific Bank by devious and dishonest means. He had flattered the McDon- alds into a support of his scheme and had deceived into an acceptance of his worthless securitles in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars of the gold in the vaults of the Pacific Bank and the People’s Home Savings Bank. For over five years Moses H. Sher- man had his clutch on these institu- tions. Having led the deluded bankers into his disastrous speculations and chimerical projects he plotted still to blind them to a realization of their des- perate condition and spent time and money-in the Eastern States with no other purpose than to deceive the Me- Donalds into a bellef that he could float the bonds he had foisted upon them. ‘When Sherman had failed in this he returned to this city to corrupt if he could the members of the Bank Com- mission and to use the enormous power of the Southern Pacific Company to corrupt legislators. When the final crash came he was still not satisfied. Through his manipulations and for his financial advantage he placed his cousin, J. E. Farnum, in the defunct Pacific Bank as manager, and he re- tained his own Influence for evil in the People’s Home Savings Bank. _In January, 1894, six months after the Pa- cific Bank had been ruined, Moses H. Sherman was still at work in the banks. Conditions had changed somewhat, however, and the crafty manipulator, who now enjoys the savings of tho:- sands of depositors, saw himself on the verge of financial R shadow of criminal prosecution by the Grand Jury of this city. He herzed & friend to assist him and to watch Vl\‘ af the Grand Jury was doing. In & Rygs terical letter he declared ~that his enemies had surrounded him ‘and V;erfi growing daily more powerful In thelt plot to ruin him. He declared that le Had remained all day long crying and in dred and he begged his friend to d{op every other business and to come nrlr;- mediately to his assistance. In L s remarkable letter which wiil follow there are several obscure references that require explanation. The eglstle is signed by §‘herman un- der the allas of ‘Charles.” Wherever the initial Z. occurs in the letter it-has reference to Charles O. Ziegentuss, a newspaper man ? this city, who was in the service of thé McDonalds for a rea- son that was not to his disadvantage Wherever the initial R. financially. rence is to R. H. Me- ;)%gxe:l?;r‘.u ];erfeJ. in the epistle means & Jenningson. The initial g{ m«?mheman'a old enemy, Col- onel J. H. Woodard. This letter is as follows: '7"3“: mrd]”‘- ; Friend: a u do nof k%; Ii):“what WOITY, a.n({nanxtet I am. T have just been down and looked in the window—2. and R. and Dr. J. are all there together. I am convinced TR e el uk oy e P ehow that W. and! ¥ ends. They are the ones, Johns. I have s. tured °‘r§ anr of them. The humble and heartsick 1 h‘;‘."" (rle‘d 80 Long to do something, working, siruj \«F ng, ing _that coul for doime oeoTad realy the fufure mover so are 1 think, who no_ {llwill towa: fact«is I feel and_discouraged. R s e @ mo? very, ve I'i mu:t get this uemema:nyt ruin and in - the |’ | collision. i or.'ot:fi '{\"mth. quartermaster of the Czar- OfAId that he was at the wheel when il;‘li vessels sighted each other, and that after his vessel had blown one whistle | Eaptain Seaman had ordered him to port his helm, which he did and kept it there until after the collision. Waldemar Marzan, lookout on the Czar- | ina, reported a red and green light on the | port bow. The Czarina blew one whistle and the Peters answered with one. Then the Czarina aeain blew one -and the | Peters two, and then she steered straight for the Czarina. His evidence went to show that the Peters started to go to starboard by porting her helm:and then changed her course almost .simulta- neously. 3 Edwin Hansen, second assistant en- gineer of the Czarina, was standing at his throttle when the bells were rung for full speed astern. He said the engine made thirty-seven revolutions before the col- Iision. 1 Superintendent Corcoran wished to.put Captain Seaman of the Czarina on_ the stand immediately to question him about the courses, 8o that no opportunity would be given him to refresh his memory. by consulting the chart. Captain Seama was perfectly willing to testify then an there, but after some discussion the in- vestigation went over until this morning. —_———————— 1 SUICIDE OF A PATIENT. William D. Edwards Drowned Him- self in the Cistern of the McLean Hospital. Willlam D. Edwarls, a patient in the McLean Hospital, ‘ound death and re- lief from lingering pain by drowning him- self yesterday in a large cistern which supplies water for the hospital. The cis- tern has a capacity of 300,000 gallons and is surrounded with an embankment and & barbed wire fence. Edwards wss a miner about 56 years old, and came to this city from Placerville to be treated for consumption. About a week ago be attempted suicide by cuttin his throat, but the cut was superficial and he was disarmed by the attendants before h¢ could finish the work of self- destruct'on. Yesterday he sent the'at- tendant out to get him a cigar, and when the atfendant was out of the way the demep.ed man went to the reservoir, climbed _the barbed wire fence and plunged in. The body was grappled for and cecovered. R WITAESs STAND et il Sherest el ;fi {,:k%rélé? the Morgue and an inquest BEGINS HIS STORY IN THE EX- TORTION CASE. through; it looks to me now that they had a plan laid deeper and beyond anything you and myself know any- thing about. A plan not to do anything for me at all, but to ruin me. i know that you are not a party to any such knowl- edge. More and more, day by day, I have watched you and found you true to me and found you trying to helg me. These people are in comman again. They seem to have everything their own way again. I am trying to work with them, I' am trying to be true to them; are they true to me? God teach me what to do. It seems that 1 must see Eou and talk this mat- ter all over. 'an you not capture things for me? Cannot you give ul everything else for a little while an get my matter closed up for me? I have just rung up R— on_the tele- phone and he has promised to come over here this evening and see me. I don’t know whether it is wise to talk to him or not, and when he comes I hardly know what tp say to him. Oh, that God would tell me what to do, and oh, that I had some powerfu friend to help me. You are powerful and you are wise, but you have so many cares of your own that you cannot work all the time for me, and yet when one thinks of it, here I have been trying for near- 1y séven months to get certain things done and I have really accomplished nothing. I have worked very hard, wasting time and money, and I have not accomplished one thing up to this date. Am I going to be defeated and ruined? Oh, I wish you would come and comfort me a little. Do you know ¥hat was done by those ninéteen peo- pie this afternoon? I have not been able to hear a th(nirrom them. I have been lying here in bed crving. I have felt so heartsick and discouraged that I wished I were dead. Will you please send me some word? Will you please turn in and help me all you can to- morrow? CHARLES. To-morrow morning The Call will con- tinue its expose of the true history of the Pacific Bank and_the People's Home Savings Bank. For the first time publicity will be given to the in- side facts of another gigantic specula- tion in which the deluded bankers in- volved themselves and in which they sank between three hundred thousand and four hundred thousand dollars. —_———— ' There’s a New Boxer in Town. Andy King of Anaconda, Mont,, is the J1atest additiqn to the ranks of the boxers in this city. He seeks a match with any hderian Wanted to Hire Thomag| man in the 118 pound class. As & guar- Dolan to Assassinat: the anlt.ee of his sxaeed zm«li Efi{-fi?éfiltiy 1:’? 7 ts to a meeting wi Wenlghy :j‘““‘s /| Bhicago. “They bwggre scheduled 10° g0 rator. twenty rounds before a clu eer p = / Lodge’: ‘Mont., last November. King put — / A few small sensations crept intg the trial of Grace Loose, Elsie Willial and Myron H. Azhderian, charged by tain Nevills with extortion, yesterday. Pevills appeared in court at the openh?ot the Santry out in the third round. Santry is the man who was re?oned as matched with clever George Dixon recently. W. J. Kennedy of the Olympic Club is inter- esting himself in procuring a match for King. g Sues for the Scenery. L. Samuels filed suit yesterday againsy Rose Dolan to recover possession of a lot of scenery at one time usged in the Grove- street Theater. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant has illegally appropriated the scenery and asks the court in event he cannot be Xhu:ed in possession again to give him jus gment‘:sfiumt the defend- ant for the sum of 3 SR Hale & Norcross Case. ' Judge Hebbard made an order yester- day granting J. J. Groom, receiver of the’ Hale and Norcross Company, $5000, and Attorney Eickhoff, the receiver's attor- ney, S«% as fees for their services. ‘Judge Hebbard said that further compsnaatknln s morning sesslon and in the atffrnoon, much to the delight of the curl the stand against the accused. Dr. Winslow Anderson was ‘he first witness called at the opening ond day’'s proceedings. He s, took fllness the first of the year,, time saw Nevills draw a cl of Elste Williams. Charles were called in the order stated that they had h hderian say he would make Nevills pfy for abusing him when he (Azhderian) was employed and surprised the court And jury by stat- ing that Azhderlan had approached him and offered him would be allowed the receiver and counsel. st g flS.Or%O ‘o put Nevills out tl , to mui m, n of X o PR AT e ‘,?.m::' :' witness Simddered ‘at ':.’E; To Cure a Cold in One Day Dm,x] tion, and ear nless he Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al ‘as Azhderian requested he would be foully | drugs retund dealt with hamt Frisno for other lands, | so. Q'ho'}' m“mq‘:_m':g B g‘nmam.,‘m