The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1898, Page 1

to be taken the Library. 3 This Paper not from P SRATE VOLUME LXXXIV.— 1898 PRICE FIVE CENTS. A CHILD'S DEATH LEADS TO A FATHER'S ARREST The Supposed Berkeley Suicide Believed to Have Been Murdered. 1 Doctors Say That Miss Brandes Did Not Die From Stran- gulation. As a sequel to the autopsy upon the body | of 16-year-old Lillian Brandss her father, | William Alfred Brandes, ie confined in the | Alameda County Jail pending the verdict of the Coroner's jury. Miss Brandes was | found dead on Saturday morning in Berke- | ley, and to all appearances she died by her iff Al White. In this interview Mrs. Brandes admitted to Mr. White that she struck the child during their alter- cation last Wednesday evening. The wife prayed aloud for strength to withstand the ordeal through which she was to pass. matic manner in which she gave voice to it. The rooms bear mute testimony to her ability as a housewife. The walls are covered with her handiwork and with trophies of the field. There are rifles and knives, police clubs, hand- cuffs and other articles. Out of keeping with the alleged brutality shown the children of the household is a framed certificate showing that Brandes is a member in good standing of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. own hand. The autopsy did not bear this | out. It was found that death resulted from | blows on the head. Mrs. Brandes, step-| mother of the girl, admitted to Deputy | Sheriff Al White that she struck the child with a stick last Wednesday night. At the | instance of the District Attorney the father | was locked up without bejng formally | charged. The stepmother is is under police surveillance, Aifred Brandes of Berkeley | er in the Alameda County | lance. The man is held pending the ct of the Coroner’s jury impaneled e cause of death of Lil v daughter of the pr ntion. His frail slip | as found dead in her room | orning. r father said she | g to the bedpost—suspended pron of soft material. t given out by the au- | thorities as a simple caseof suicide. The | girl was of morbid temperament, and, | according to neighbors’ stories, had | ived unhapp with her stepmother. | The body was removed to the Berkeley Morgue, and a superficial examination | showed the authorities that maurder | most foul had been committed. The | body was marked from ankles.to head | was at fi in the ar of the girl's father. The autopsy disclosed the fact that death had not resuited from strangula- | tion, but from blows administered upon | the head of the young girl. The theory of the six medical men who performed | the autopsy was that the child was | beaten over the h last Wednesday | night, when neighbors heard a quarrel between the girl and her stepmother. as not able to attend school the t day, nor was she seen about after- | | rd. The beating confined her to her | bed. | The doctors hold that the wounds on | the neck are superficial, and that death | it from strangulation. The | of soft material, would not have | left the on the girl’s neck. These show pls the imprint of a stout rope. Whether this was applied before or after d ould not be determined. As the result to the father dead girl it former unc of the autopsy pointed | and stepmother of the | as determined to place the r arrest at once to prevent = are not too sure that the | girl er sus ded to the post. | The only information given out regard- | ing this comes from the father. He affirms that when he entered the girl's room, after be summoned by his wife, he found his daughter hanging to the bedpost. He cut her down, placed her on the bed and h away to ummon the doctor. It laimed t terial of the apron would not have | held the body without breaking, and in | any event it would not have left the | gir neck in the condition in which it was found. When the officers approached Brandes' house there were evidences of a possible attempt at flight. A | horse and buggy stood before the dcor _ when the officers entered, but it had gone when they came out again. | Mr. Brandes apparently expected a | visit from the police, as he showed no token of surprise when Deputy Sherift Al White, accompanied by Marshal Lloyd of Berkeley, appeared. The offi- cers went to the house soon after 6| o'clock and found Brandes standing | just outside the front door. He knew | Mr. White personally and invited him into the house. They entered the par- lor of the cottage, and there was & painful pause for a moment, when Mr. White said: “Brandes, I come to place you under arrest.” Brandes looked at *Oh!” “He then said: “I must see my wife, and made a move as though to leave, the room. Mr. White stopped him, say- he would have her called. Before Brandes entered the room the Sheriff and his prisoner went to the kitchen by another passageway. The | wife then went back and sat down | while her husband wrote a telegram. The import of the Sheriff's visit grad- ually broke upon Mrs. Brandes, and she became hysteric The husband called her “sweetheart” and other endearing names and tried to calm her. Her eyes and his were tearless, . Brandes sat at the kitchen table and wrote with a steady hand. He stopped in the m:1dle of his telegram and asked what the bail would be. ~ To this Mr. White gave an evasive | answer. __ Later on he asked: “Have you a war- hnt?” “i"ou know as well as I do that I $on't need one,” was the rejoinder. Before the prisoner was taken from the house he kad a short interview with * his wife in the presenceof Deputy Sher- | him and sald: The parting between husband and wife was a simple one, and Brandes was at gnce taken on board a Telegraph= avenue car. He smoked a cigar and talked incessantly of the enemies who were plotting his ruin. He told of his daughter being simple-minded, and also said his wife was at times the same. As the car passed under an electric street light he said it was always necessary to watch his daughter at the full moon. He mistook the electric light for the moon, and noting his mistake relapsed into silence for a time. - He asked for whisky, but was not given any. He was placed on the ‘“small book” at the jail. He will not be charged until the verdict of the Coro- ner's jury is submitted. Brandes is a man of imperious man- ner. When he called his wife he al- ways followed her name immediately with a sharp, hissing whistle, such as boys are wont to make through their teeth. This was shown toward his lit- tle son also, and gives the key to his domineering character. He is a thick- set, dark-complexioned man, with a sharp-pointed black mustache. He is 38 years of age, an American by birth, but with a trace of some foreign lan- guage in his speech. An important witness in the case has disdppeared. This is a man who was £ _Lf"j'lf-“ Sl et e ] in-| ysed by Brandes as an assistant. He | lation, would have left a different stituted at once, which finally resulted | gecupied a room in the basement ad- | mark than the one which I found joining that of the murdered girl. On the morning of the tragedy he left the house about 8 o'clock and left town at Her grief did not ap- | pear genuine, owing to the melodra- | | | once. He has not been seen since. It | | is thought he has full knowledge of the | dreadful crime and will prove a strong | witness for the prosecution if he can | | be found. | | The reticence of the deputy coroner | | and of Dr. F. G. Whitworth, the at- | tending physician, concerning the con- | aition and appearance of the unfortu- | nate girl's body, as reported in yester- day’s Call, is now fully explained. The deputy coroner, satisfled that no mere explanation of vdluntary suicide could fully account for all the circumstances of the case, ordered a thorough exami- nation of the remains to be made and conferred at once with Chief Coroner Baldwin. The latter called for a pre- | { iminary inquest on Saturday night, at which District Attorney Charles F. | Snook was present. Dr. Whitworth found the body in a | | frightful condition. Black bruises, some | of them several inches square, marred | the skin. Back of the two shoulders | evidences pointed to blows of terrible | severity. Severe gashes appeared on | each cheek. The neck was completely ringed with contusions, as if from a rope drawn tightly around if, fhe red | marks appearing regularly in streaks. | An autopsy was ordered immediately | by the District Attorney. Evidence of | foul play pointed mutely from the bruises and gashes, which it was clear could neither have been self-inflicted | nor the result of mere hanging. Two | Sheriff’s deputies had been detailed | meanwhile to guard the house, and | their vigilance remained unabated un- | til late in the afternoon. ! The autopsy, conducted by Dr. H. Buteau of Oakland, was witnessed by | five local physicians, Drs. Eastman, | Shannon, Renell, Hoagland and Whit- THE LATE SIR GEORGE ©CC0C00Ceo | SMYTHE BADEN-POWELL. worth. It consumed roughly about three hours—from 3 o’clock till 6. At the conclusion Dr. Buteau made the following statement in his report to the District Attorney: “I have found the head very much battered, with external markings on | the skin, indicating most brutal treat- ment. All evidences of hanging or| | death by strangulation were only superficial, being made probably aft- er death had really occurred. The | whole skull cap was badly bruised, | | the injuries on the head being suffi- | cient to have brought about death. | They were most likely caused by some hard object. | “The marks around the neck were | certainly not made by the apron | which was left hanging to the bed- | post. The material of the latter was quive soft, and had it caused strangu- SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELL PASSES AWAY Author and Political Economist. GRADUATED FROM OXFORD REPRESENTED ENGLAND ON \‘ encircling the neck. The marks could IMPORTANT MISSIONS. 1 Continued on Second Page. oS Rranpe Reqpence N | BEKKELfiy ‘Egz' PRINCIPALS IN THE WHICH SHOC Prolific Writer, Keen Sportsman and Socially a Great Favorite in the House of Commons. A A (&3 > Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Nov. 20.—Sir George Smythe Baden-Powell, the eminent po- litical economist, and author on Colo- nial affairs, who has represented the Kirkdale division of Liverpool in Par- liament In the Conservative interest since 1885, died to-day in his fifty-first year. The late Sir George Baden-Powell, who was born at Oxford on December 24, 1847, was a son of the well-known Rev. Baden-Powell, professor of geom- etry in the University of Oxford whose magnum opus was Wwritten to demon- strate that science and revelation are in harmony rather than antagonistic. Sir George’s mother was a daughter of the distinguished British Admiral Smythe. He was prepared for Oxford at Marlborough and graduated from the university with honors in 1878, win- ning the chancellorship prize for Eng- lish essay. In the interlude between leaving Marlborough and taking up his university studies, he traveled in In- dia and Australia and visited the prin- cipal European cities, as well as tlne‘ Cape. The first year of his university ca- reer saw published his “New Homes for the Old Country.” This important book™ was pronounced by the London Times a “standard work,” the London Athenaeum declaring it to be “an en- cyclopedia of Australian knowledge.” This volume was followed by two on political economy—*Protection and Bad Times” and “State Aid and Interfer- ence.” In 1880 he went to the West Indies to investigate the effect of the sugar bounty system on West Indian sugar planting and two years later Mr. Glad- stone appointed him a special commis- sioner to report upon the administra- tion, revenue and expeditures of Great Bri*uin’s colontes in the West Indies. His report, contained in five biue books, was regarded as a complete summary of West Indilan affairs. In 1885 he went to South Africa and joined Sir Charles Warren in L. chua- naland, assisting him in diplomatic ne- gotiations with the native chiefs. At this time he made a tour of investiga- tion of Bechuanaland, Zululand and other countries in that part of Africa. In the winter of 1886-87 he was in Canada and the United States draw- ing up detalls in the fishery dispute, of which Mr. Chamberlain was subse- quently commissioned to negotiate a final arrangement. In the autumn of 1887 the British Government sent him to Malta as the colleague of Sir George Bower, who ar- ranged details of the new Malta consti- tution. It was at this time he received the honor of knighthood. In 1801 he was appointed joint commissioner on the condition of seal life in Bering Sea. He was most industrious and a pro- lific writer, a keen sportsman and so- cially a great favorite in the House of Commons. Evacuation of Cuba. HAVANA, Nov. 20.—Captain General Blanco received from Paris to-day a cable authorizing him to draw on Paris for $2,000,000 in gold, to be applied in the pay- ment of the Spanish troops in Cuba. This | amcunt is in addition to the proceeds of the draft for £42,000 by the Madrid Gov- ernment on London, which was sold here last week. The Spanish authorities are making strenuous efforts to complete the evacuation by the end of the year. TrEWounps Ox Tfi‘fl\:w‘ UFFICS IENTT To PROPUCE . DEATH. . . \. s TRAGEDY KED ALL BERKELEY DEVILS [SLE SO0N T0 LOSE -[TS TENANT Dreyfus’ Exile Nears Its End. ALREADY HAS MORE FREEDOM SEVERITY OF HIS JAILORS| RELAXED. | Paris Is Discussing Esterhazy’s Me- moirs, Though It Attaches but Little Importance to Them., Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gor- don Bennett. PARIS, Nov. 20.—The Govern- ment, according to the Temps, has ordered a modification of the prison treatment of former Captain Dreyfus. Dreyfus is to be allowed to promenade and ex- ercise six hours a day over an area of eight acres. 000000000000000000 PARIS, Nov. 20.—Unfortunate Drey- cOC0000C0 oCoQCOCCO0C000 fus seems to be nearing the end of his | period of probation. It now appears fairly certain that he will be brought back to France within a very short time. Aiready the severity of the regime which he has been subjected to is relaxed. In case he does return here in all probability he will be con- | fined in a civil conciergerie prison and | not in the military one of Cheriche Midi. This is really because after his| degradation Dreyfus comes under the| jurisdiction of the civil authorities. Alll the same there are many who declare | this measure is being taken to insure his safety. A subject that {s much discussed to- | day is Count Esterhazy's memoirs. So far nobody attaches much lmportance‘ to them. As a matter of fact the only | point brought out at present is Ester- hazy’s amazing lack of conscience. He | claims he was the instrument of the general staff. If this statement is true it only shows what questionable tools were necessary to prove Dreyfus guilty. These memoirs are written In a style that we have become only too familiar with during the polemic over the Drey- fus affair as conducted in some of the 19 MADRID, Nov. 20.—In politi- WILL SUBMIT ALTERNATIVES T0 THE DONS Clear Declaration of Uncle Sam. PHILIPPINES MUST BE OURS IF TAKEN BY CONQUEST IT WILL COST SPAIN LEARLY. To-Day the American Commission Will Present an Ultimatum So Plain the Spaniards Will Scarcely Object. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. cal circles it is asserted that an agreement has been reached be- tween the Peace Commissioners in Paris. The Government, it is officially announced, intends to notify the Cuban bondholders that Spain will not pay the Cu- ban debt, which will not be men- tioned in the peace treaty. The Government considers itself com- pletely freed from these entan- glements, which fall upon the nation exercisingsovereignty and collecting taxes in Cuba. 000000000000 000 |Q < |0OCO0000000000000GCO PARIS, Nov. 20.—The Spanish Peace Commissioners have been notified that | the United States Commissioners will be ready to treat with them in joint session to-morrow afternoon. Unless the Spanlards have an adequate reason for further delay the two commissions will join in the most important meet- ing thus far held. The American Commissioners, in a written communication, will declare that the third article of the protocol regarding the Philippines is capable of only one fair construction; that no rea- son is needed to elucidate its terms, and that the United Statescannot admit any cther power to argue with her purely as a lexologist. They will maintain that the two commissions are charged to determine whether Spain or the | United States shall in the future own | the Philippines. This will be accom- | panied by the clear declaration that the United States will possess the Philip- | pines. Following this declaration the Amer- ican Commissioners will lay before the Spanish two alternatives: gutter papers here, and leave a very saddening impression. The Liberti says that, after having extracted money from the credulity of the general staff, Esterhazy is trying to exploit the credulity of the public. | SPENT SIX MONTHS IN A MEXICAN JAIL ‘American Released Upon the De-| mand of Washington Authorities. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 20.—Morton Hudson of this city has just arrived from Mexico, where he has been in prison for over six months. Last February Hudson and a friend named Powell went on a prospecting tour near Toluca, Mexico. They were returning from the town of Veregueria, where they had been to pur- chase supplies for their camp, when they were set upon by Mexican highwaymen. One of the Mexicans clapped a pistol to Powell's head, but the American grasped his assailant and the two fel from their | horses. The second Mexican, who was armed with a sword, was in the act of | plunging it into Poweil's back, when Hud- | son brought him to the ground with a well directed shot. The first Mexican was rapidly overpow- ering Powell, when the latter called for heln. Hudson went to his assistance, when the highwayman atmed his pistol at the advancing man. Hudson was too quick, however, and shot the man through his_breast. The two Americans then concealed themselves in the mountains until they finally decided to surrender to the Mexi- can authorities. Hudson was thrown into jail at Tenancingo, but finally got a let- ter to his brother in this city, and the authorities in Washington caused his trial and release. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson, W. R. McKeel, Senator Falrbanks and Congressman Far- ris were instrumental in securing proper treatment for Hudson. Hudson is thin and pale from his con- finement, but is otherwise in good health. GUTIERRE? RECEIVES AID FROM HuNDURAS| President of Salvador Will Invade His Own Country at the Head of an Alien Army. and the New York Gor Special Cable to The Call Herald. Copyrighted, 183, by James Gor- don Bennett. PANAMA, Nov. 20.—The revolution which started in Salvador a few days ago is headed by Thomas Regalado. the for- mer military inspector, who resigned to be eligible for the Presidency after hav- ing been unanimously prociaimed by the populace for the office. he chief occasion for the outbreak is to upset the Central American Federation, an adverse attitude having been assumed by the Regalado party, with some pros- ects of success. President Gutierrez is now in Hondu- ras organizing an expedition in combina- tion with that Government to invade Sal- vador. G ACCUSED OF HAVING First—To accept a sum of money | from the United States and to cede and evacuate the Philippines. Second—To lose the Philippines to the | United States by conquest, with the possibilities of other territorial losses to indemnify the United States for the added expense of conquest. This communication may not be for- maily designated as an ultimatum, but it will lack naught of the conclusive- ness indicated by that word. This will be so plain that the Spanish Commis- sioners will scarcely haggle for money on the first alternative, nor cherish any doubt of American action upder the second should the first be declined. | None here except the American Com- | missioners know how much will be tendered Spain as the cheapest and most humane way of settling the diffi- culty. She Is exceedingly anxious to escape the Philippine debt, and possibly the sum to be offered may be deter- mined by an analysis of that debt, which consists of $40,000,000 in bonds, on which she realized $36,000,000. Of the latter amount she is believed’to have expended some $10,000,000 or $11,000.060 in fighting the United States and a part in attempting to quell the Philippine in- surgents. A reasonable guess at the sum for tender would be $20,000,000, al- though it may fall below that. The Cuban question may come up again to-morrow. The American Com- mission had thought the discussion on that point finished, but the Spanish Commissioners are reported to have declared last week that the mortgages imposed by Spain on the Cuban, as well as on the Philippime revenues, must not be impaired or questioned. This would compel the American Commissioners soon—and probably to-morrow—to de- mand whether Spain means to repudi- ate the plain compact of the protocol to relinquish sovereignty over and title to Cuba. Three weeks ago the Spanish Com- missioners accepted the Cuban article in the protocol without conditions, save its embodiment in the treaty should depend on only an agreement here on all the articles of the protocol. Re- cently, however, Spain’s representatives have said that the Cuban matter had only been temporarily passed and was still in abeyance. BUT WILL SPAIN DARE TO REJECT THE OFER? LONDON, Nov. 21.—The Madrid cor- respondent of the Daily Mail says: “It is asserted that the Government would reject an offer of $40,000,000 for the Philippines as ridiculous.” The Mudrid correspondent of the “Spain will decline in- | Standard says: ROBBED A GRAVE demnity for the Philippines if the sum New York Man’s Alleged Attempt to | Defraud an Insurance Com- pany. BALDWIN, Mich, Nov. 20—H. V. ‘White of New York is under arrest here, suspected of grave robbing for the pur- pose of defrauding a life insurance com- any of $2000, the amount ol insu=-nea o he life of his brother, Frank M. W ite, November 10 H. V. Wuite cawe ..cre ror the purpose, he said, of finding his broth- er, whom he belleved to have been foully dealt. with somewhere in this vicinity. body was finally found by White, which he claimed to be that of his brother. In- vestigation_developed that the body was August. His ve was found empty and in_such condition as to show that the committed that of a_Baldwin man who had dled in robbery had been very soor ter his b N l offered appears inadequate In the eyes | of the nation.” | The Daily Chronicle, in an editorial on the Spanish-American situation this morning, after expressing ‘‘some ap- prehension that we may have been mis- taken with regard to the Anglo-Ameri- can entente,” points to the “establish- | ment of & medieval navigation law in Porto Rico,” and asks: “Is a still graver disappointment coming in the closing of the doors to our commerce in the Philippines?” British Bark on Fire. TLONDON, Nov. 20.—A dispatch from Tquique says the British bark Inveriide, Captain May, which arrived there on No- vember 2, from Montevideo, is an fire.