The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVI—N¢@ PRICE FIVE CENTS, PARIS APPEARS TO BE IN A STATE OF SIEGE the Anti-Semite Fortress All Attemp{s to Induce M. Jules Guerin to Surrender to Officers of the Law Meet With Failure, and He Has Been Declared an “Outlaw.” RENNES, Aug. 16.—The application for the suspension of the | Dreyfus court-martial on account of the wounding of M. Labori has been refused, and the session was continued at 6:30 o’clock| this morning. The application was denied owing to the opposi tion of Major Carriere, the Government commissary. ceedings opened without disorder. The pro- THUGS HOWARD HIRED TO KILL GREEN ROBBED THE ALAMEDA Police and Republican Guards Massed Near jimmie Murphy, Jimmie Kelly and Jackie Casey Spent Money Right and Left During Their Stay in This City. L e e A o ] 4 . . »: & 3 . 3¢ @ + ¥ 3 * ® 5 s *® @ * + 2 o * % ® & * i @ ® * . & 3 ® | 1 & i © o * . & : + 3 o . & g * v . . ® 4 Prominent Witnesses in the Dreyfus Case. 1 Y & * lot was Minister of War in 1898 in the Meline Cabinet. whom Zolaaccused of perjuryand treason to jus- v 6 . and whose testimony has greatly helped Dreyfus. He is 71 years of age. General Zurlinden was 2 War in the Ribot Cabinet in 1895, and in the Brisson Cabinet for three weeks in September, 1598, from ¢ | . which he resigned hecause of his opposition to revision. General Jamont was given as authority by Generals Mercler ¢ and Zurlinden for the statement that Germany and England had subscrfbéd $35.000,00 to help the Dreyfus side. ‘ L] B ] 1899, by James Gor- | lon Bennett ARIS, Aug. 15.—Any ap- | proaching the rue de Chabrol to- night about 10 o’clock would 1m- ne that Paris was in a state one a of siege. A hundred yards below the church of Saint Vincent de Paul a double line of police and Republican | Guards barred the passage and behind | t n, drawn up alongsi the pave m could be seen a_couple of dazen mounted guards standing by their horses. The immense staircase of the church and all the streets behind the lines of police were black with people indulging in loud shouts -of “Vive | seurin,” “Vive 1'Armee,” and occa sionally singing in chorus “Un clest Ge in, Geurin, Geur ('est Geurin qu'il nous faut.” | In the center of the square in front of the church were the gold epaulets of the officers of the Re- | publican Guard and silver-laced uni- | forms of officers of police as they walked up and down, keeping an eye | on the ever-growing crowd and occa- | sionally issuing an order to their sub- | ordinates. At the top of the rue d'Hauteville there was a second line of police and Republican Guards, and yet a third at the junction of that street and rue de Chabrol. Beyond this line lay the anti- | Semitic fortress, while a hundred yards further up the street yet another strong | line was established. In front of the Church of Saint Vin- cent de Paul a company of Republican Guards were posted. The men had piled their arms and were seated on the edze of the pavement and lower steps await- | ing developments. The rue d'Haute- ville, behind the police lines, was filled with a squadron of mounted troops stationed there. The men were either | seated on chairs lent them by the con- | conspicuous | clerges of neighboring houses or tramping up and down beside thr‘ horses. | At the anti-Jewish stronghold itself | everything was quiet when the corres- pondent visited it at 10 c’clock. With | the exception of a little group of jour- | nalists: gathered on the opposite pave- | ment there was not a sou! in sight. M. Jules Geurin, wearing his familiar broad-brimmed felt hat, was leaning on the window sill smoking a cirgar-| ette.. From time to time another mem- ber of the garrison would appear at the window, reconnoiter the situation, | and disappear. Since 4 o'clock in the morning the position of M. Geurin, from a legal point of view, had changed. At that moment M. Hamard, Commissary of Police, accompanied by his secretary, arrived fromtheprefecture at thecorner of rue de Chabrol and rue Lafayette. There he left the carriage, bound on his tricolor sash of office, advanced to the door of the building of the anti-Semitic League, and rang the bell. ute or two there was no reply, but! sounds could be heard within, mingled | For a min- | J{ The Call and the New York | T come in thé name of law to execute | a warrant for the arrest of. Jules Geurin.” “All right,” answered the man on the other side,- and again shot. the slide | over the grating. At the same instant a window on the first floor was opened, and M. Geurin appeared. ““What do you want?” he asked Hamard. “1 am a Commis down; I want to se name of law, a rest.” “I refuse,” se ry of Police. Come: ve on you, in the warrant for your ar- shouted ; 1 refuse.” “Well, then,” replied Hamard, “I de- clare you and your companions in re- bellion against law.” As he said the words, M. Hamard tepped down, folded up the warrant and slipped it under the door. Geurin scemed for an instant somewhat curi- ous, and leaned over the window sill to see what he was doing. As the com- missary turned away he tried to resume the conversation. listen and moved off toward the car- riage. “You Geurin. *I.ye- fi then?” I had to won't listen i ¢ tn say to me, shouted Geurin. don’t care. only one word You want take us. And France, which is with us, will you take that, too?” The crowd outside, which had hither- to ligtened in silence, burst into cheers and shouts of “Br: “Death to Jew % 3efore quitting the Rue de Chabrol, Hamard gave orders to his men to in- stantly arrest any one who should try to enter or leave the anti-Semitic fort- ress. About 8 o'clock Geurin and a number of his friends appeared at the window and called out to the crowd below to throw up the morning papers, which was done. “Crojssants’” and small loaves fol- lowed the same route, and the anti- Semitic chief engaged In conversation with friends below. About 3 »’clock M. Police, the colonel of the Republican Guards and a number of officers ap- | peared on the scene and reconnoitered the neighborheod. This gave rise to a bort that the authorities intended to storm the anti-Semitic stronghold be- fore morning. Opinions are divided as to the resistance t will be made. If the proclamation issued by Geurin and his frie is to be believed, desperate resistance may be expected. It runs as follows: Appeal to all patriots—Citi: fu men determined to liberty of als b ns: A hand- nforce respect a Government will to-morrow, lives for the Will the peo- and the high signifi- 1 those men are go- i ty of cpinior ple unders cance of the act whi ing to accomplish, and will they make common > with the they let them struggle singl against the Government, which is hi the orders of cosmopolitan Jewdom? Citizens, ‘whatever may happen, the anti- Juifs shut-up in the grand occldent of France wiit Go their duty. Those who are ready to die for the cause of liberty salute LES RADES. On the other hand many people be- 1 or will anded xecui- Hamard refused to | vo,” “Vive Geurin,” | Lepine, Prefect of | either | A(SHI['RIN AND HIS [COM-| evening M. Labori was removed in an ambulance to the residence of Profes- sor Bash, in a suburb of Rennes. He stood the journey well, although natur- ally fatigued. The doctors to-night are extremely hapeful of a speedy recovery, but con- sider | return to court until there is absoclute- ly no danger of a relapse. - LR S RS SCSE Si SCEE SRS SO 2 oz Rzt it would be unwise for him to !, 3 @ - | & . @ 3 & + & . L4 > 6 (3 + @ 3 @ + ® * Py . £ + ® * ® . > * PS % M. Demange has decided to ask for Q@eivsieieieieibeieio @ . 3 |A Second-Hand Store on Pacific Looted of Keys Street to Enable Them to Get Into the Steamer’s Treasure Chest -——Had They Been Unable to Land the Money They Had a Plan to Fix the Guilt on the Denver Capitalist. CHARLES DOYLE, alias Augus- . tus Howard, alias “Plunger” Hill, wanted by the police for the embezzlement of the money of Wil- lard Reed Green, a Denver capitalist, is still'at liberty. It is supposed he is headed for Mexico. The police say he left last Thursday. His wife says she saw him for the last time Sunday @ veoeveie roe D0 ebes e o This Form to be carefully folded in sx parts | | his relationship and violating his | |own home to debauch several of the members of his wife's family. | | | Attorney Beatty, on ' the other | | hand, pooh poohs the story of the | | police and threatens, if it becomes | | necessary, to show up matters which \/' | will not redound to the credit of Cap- | | )' italist Green. 3 i . & + & * & + @ + L 4 + Artial 8 j é Cooy ves, BT Wogh {On cmmas 1/ GE00%D s Colous of Plomrer”. G q{mr o gl teatures — ol N2 Ne of pravious Portcat Vumé‘({. 2B 1an s Date whea Pertruit was taken 5% Wl 108p S2ek. CONVICTIONS. | y7a 2 = », D I e SR R CRE SRCEY SSCRY SRS St A ) ¢ | saloon of Billy Lyons, 218 Post street, | = & | and were great friends with Teddy 5l @i ePe e e e e Mw/w/%/ PAGE FROM HOWARD S AUSTRALIAN M?Q/Mw%;&j’j:&_é//f7fi/ 4 0 OU1 T [ R R RO an adjournment, which has necessi- tated a written application by both M. Demange and Captain Dreyfus, who have already sent letters to the presi- dent of the court-martial. Colonel Jouaust will undoubtedly accede to the request, but he cannot grant an ad- journment for more than_two days, When the application must be renewed. | Captain Dreyfus wants the sessions postponed until Monday next, when it is hoped that M. Labori will be able to be present. { Dreyfus has written two letters to M. Labori. The first, on" hearing the news of the attempt to murder the law r, is a spontaneous expression of his shocked feelings. | touching epistle, expressing the pris- Sk o s SR e o o el e e 2 1y outrage, | Labori profound gratitude to M. for his heroic championship, with shouts of “En alerte comrades, | lieve that this proclamation is not to and heartfelt wishes for his happy re- are you ready? Every man to his post. | Let no one act without orders,” and the famous tocsin of the ‘occidentale” be- | gan to clang. | An instant later a slide covering the grating in the door was shot aside and | & voice asked, “Who are you?” | “I am M. Hamard, Commissary of Police,” replied that magistrate, “and be taken “au pied de la lettre,” and that when the critical moment comes better ! revail. - LABORI MAY SCON RECOVER FROM WOUND counsels will p RENNES, Aug. 15.—At 8 o'clock this | covery. A correspondent has obtained com- | plete corroboration of the statement that the pockets of M. Labori’s coat | were rified yesterday while he was ly- ing on the ground wounded. Not only were the pockets of his coat emptied, | bat an attempt was made to steal the wallet in which were important papers A Continued on Second Page. The second is a | oner's keenest regrets at the dastard-- B e e e o R night. The story told by Green is only a chapter in a criminal romance in which Howard is the principal actor. The police are certain that, if he did not plan the robbery of the steamer Alameda, men he had cmployed to put Green out of the way did. They are known. Their names are Jimmie Murphy, Jimmie Kelly and Jackie Casey, and all did time with Howard in the Antipodes. The police claim to have an absolute case against:them also for the robbery of the Welis- Fargo Express wagon some months ago of $2500 as it stood outside the company’s offices. Casey and Kelly are supposed to be in China. Mur- phy’s whereabouts is unknown. Howard’s criminal record, taken from the Australian police records, has been produced by Chief Lees and brands the man of many aliases as a persistent criminal. The police are also in possession of information that the man was a sensual monster, using Certainly a pretty kettle of fish has been overturned on the trail of the Alameda robbers. ETECTIVES hidden behind | the curtains to the windows of | the residence of Chief of Po- | ‘ lice Lees, 1022 Pine street, kept | their eyes glued yesterday on | ‘lhe house across the way, where Au- | gustus Howard, alias ‘‘Plunger Hill,” | real name Charles Vivian Doyle, has | his. family. © They’ were anxi for.a | sight> of “him. In th puckets they { carried the {hree warrants sworn out | Saturday’ by Willard: R.. Green, the | millionaire © promoter of Denver, who | claims to have been ‘victimized to the | extent of $150,000 by the man of many | | aliases. The vigil of the detectives was not | rewarded. They were satisfied from | their: search of Monday night that| | Howard-was not in the house, and up until 3 o'clock this morning they saw no one that bore the slightest resem- blance to him approach the premises. They are confident, as they first con- cluded, that their bird has flown, and + must await the turn of events to throw | him again in their v The story told by Gr after Monday night ture Howard contains material for kalf a dozen melodramas, with enough left over to furnish f.rth a fairy tale, but it is only a s part of a chronicle of crime that re~d: unequaled in Doyle, alia Hill,” to be; arch and the police t to cap- at iminal annals. Howard, alias “Plunger n at the beginning, was the ated e SICEY S SO *® S5 were three whom. he ha convicts' with "' in the col and came to i , Jimmie Kelly : alias and their exploits a ge in the police archives of the Antipodes.. They are the men who looted the treasure room of the. Alameda on her last May-June trip to San with 5000 sot reign; Murphy, Kelly nd Casey came to n Francisco last Navember at the in- itation of Howard and on the prom- of something good. They were sup- »d by him with money, which they nt lavishl r class in the tenderloin. their * R B e e e A SRCEL S R SRS - > - e e B e SORY SRS MDA D SO S P ) Alexander, the one-time manager of “Griffo”’ and Joe Goddard, an ‘Austra- lian like Some of * the money with which Millionaire Green of Denver had supplied Howard went to keep up their revels and, when Howard | got ready to put Green out of the way, they were the men selected to do the deed. Howard a Master Plotter. Howard showed himself a master plotter in this, as he did in al his other relations with Green. His’ tools were cr unknown to the police on this side of the Pacific, and when their w was completed it was sup- posed they would drop out of sight and leave the projector of the plot free to do as he chose. Twenty thousand dollars was the price Howard put upon the head of Green, and for that sum the three ‘Australians asgreed to make the Denver man food for the fishes. In order to do this they had to know their man. Howard ar- ranged all that. On the eve of the de- parture of the steamer Alameda Green was invited to- a dinner at Howard's Pine-street residence. Howard in his captain’s uniform, Mrs. Howard in her like a romance and is | with him | Francisco, getting away) in the saloons and other | headquarters at the | best and Miss Bessie Lee, her sister, sat to table with the millionaire. Dur- ing the dinner Casey and Kelly called at the house and had a chance to get a good view of Green as he left with Mrs. Howard and her sister for the theater. they went down to the dock. os- bly to board the Alameda. upon ard and Green had state- | rooms reserved | Twenty Thousand in Gold. Late that same afternoon Howard | S e e 4 & * B T S S S S S s S B e s S | and Jimmie Murphy in a hack driven | by John Fitzpat with Frank Kelly, son of the Pine-street liveryman, on the box, were driven up to the bank in the Fiood building from his box in which Howard took a sack containing $20,000 in gold coin. Re:entering the hack, he drew down the blinds and rode with Murphy to the courtyard of the Palace | Heotel, where he got out, leaving the convict in charge of the money. How- | ard then went to keep his dinner en- gagement with the man he intended to have murdered, and accompanied him to the Mail dock when he returned from | the theater. It was the intention of Howard and of the criminals he had .employed to kncek Green on the head at the wharf and throw him overboard, in which event Howard would have gone on the Alameda and iled away. This plan was frustrated b the presence of Mr. Porter cousin to Green's wife, who had to see him off. It was ‘then that Howard should not sail, and in order to make a plausible excuse he telephoned for one of his creatures, Eddie Kauffman, to come down and represent himself as an officer with a warrant for his arrest. Kauffman appeared in due time, served the fictitious warrant and gcv | Howard the opportunity he was see ing to tell Green that he kad been ar- | rested as a result of litigation over the famous running horse Yellowtail and would have to makeotherarrangements. | This satisfied Green, - especially after | Howard had given him a promise that | as soon as possible he would go up to | Vietoria and e one of the steamers for Australia sailing from that port to join him. It was Howard's plan that Murphy, Casey and Kelly should sail on the steamer with Green, and when well out to sea sandbag and throw him over- come down to the doc d rided board. He saw the Alame, eam out of port in the conviction that Green w a doomed man, and that Murphy, Casey and Kelly would leave no telitale tracks behind them. Sev- | eral weeks later Casey and Kelly called upon Howard, told him that they had disposed of Green on the way to Hono- lulu and had taken the steamer Aus- tralia back from that port to get the remainder of the §20,000 blood money. They said that Murphy had gone to Australia. Howard paid them the money and they stayed around the city spending it until May 17, when they sailed away again. Casey and Kelly had betrayed the arch criminal. They had not thrown Green overboard, as they stated. They had voyaged with him to Honolulu. without molesting him on the way, whether from lack of opportunity or is not known. Not daunted by their failure and being low in funds, they de- cided to come back and claim the money. before Green, as he did. cabled to Howard his safe arrival in Australia. Their companion, Jimmie Murphy, sailed on to perfect plans for the rob- bery of the steamer Alameda, in which they were to join him. The Steamer Robbery. The first real step toward the robbery of the Alameda was taken March 2 last. the very day that steamer arrived from Australia on one of her up-trips. On that day Murphy called at a second- hand store on Pacific street. near, East. kept by a man named Willlams. and asked to be shown some keys for Yale loc! He was shown a large ring on were fastened some 300. He care- fully examined the bunch and conclud- ed his visit by purchasing half a dozen of them. That same night the second- hand store was entered by thieves, and, strange to say, nothing was stolen but | this bunch of Yale lock keys. Murphy needed them to gain access to the treas- ure room of the Alameda, or any other of the steamers that plowed the Pa- cific. | 2 How well he succeeded in using them | is shown by the story of the robbery of | the Alameda, which became public here | on the next time the vessel arrived in port. Her treasure room had been vio- lated and o trace had been left behind by the thieves, or thief, for Murphy had done the job alone, until he got to Honolulu, where he was met by Casey and Kelly, who had gone there to rejoin him for that purpose. | Green was on the vessel on that up- trip, full of indignation at the fraud