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The S VOLUME LXXXVI-NO 98 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS, SHOOTS HIS FOE FROM AN AMBUSH John Pendleton Murders Jacob Randall as the Result of a Claim-Jumping Dispute at Redding. ESWICK, S 5.—Mine jump- | swered. “You had better send word iptown to his partner and have them | nd get him.” 'n walked to Redding miles, and went strai fl's office and gave h s brought back to Kes- fternoon to be niel Thompson ng claim in ¢ worth $1 d sted in the min- taken to 1 in self- Randall had made | Randall { the affr: been fre- jumping, of been much of late The claim in dispute iered valuable because it wiil » end of the n bridge to be d acrc the amento. It located as a placer by his Randall ac quartz locked I" > on the same Pendleton filed hi wn another ground, so Pendle- 1d resident a widow this af- & N J [ r F t RINGS OF RECOGNITION ALASKA MINERS ~ FOR SHAFTER of This|Will Not Be Retired Next Month. v D. E. Bunham City is Drowned. es in connec mpaign President > matter and believe: reneral uing s er his volunt commission 1g s authority for 1 arm exists. w his some for General Congress comes time provisional for th it the who was allowed n comma was volun T ubsequently pay for the time he served under r commission omes for G colonel according to th Arthur colonel s Mac tenant Auder- General booked eneralship w be- 2 sp b eneral DR. SPONOGLE SAID by Tk roment oF e te the way for ROOT WAS IMPROVING ! G Phi do w nts in_the have much tc CLARA FOLTZ APPEARS TO DEFEND YDA ADDIS Upon a Technical Point She Obtains a Continuance of Twenty- Five Days. Sept. 5.—Yda Ad- court this morning ra Foltz of San this being the day set for her charge of having at- 11 mpted to mu . ant Jack- L % on the morning of J v 9 last. The ntinue dant shows de s of break- ounted for the and her 0 months’ confine- made and a we change in her. haggard look. »d the courtroom » decisive walk which is of the woman, ’'s counsel raised a technical a while made it appear ation would be set aside that the inforn by the court. The information read, “An ttempt to murder Grant Jac and 1tz claimed it should have read ault with intent to commit mur- he ed there was no such attempt to murder mentioned in tute, and Yda Addis Storke could held for doing something that is a crime in the Penal Code. Williams said he had never known to have been passed He thought it should be thorough- am appeared the f f atement: >stigated before a decision were given. le gave twenty-five da; in | which to submit briefs on Mrs. Foltz's | demurrer. Attorneys Starbuck and Canfield filed | the formal notice of appeal in the libel ority | case to-day. The appeal is taken from s the | the judgment and order denying a new | trial made on July 10. S o Fire in a Gas Plant. WOODLAND, Sept. 5.—The Woodland of this city is t on t Dillon in a very | should nr-‘ | body wi that it before his mother . re fully con-|Gas Company’s house was totally de- « ithoritics neg- | stroyed by fire this afternoon. The tank ¥ ~a most shameful | contains a sufficlent supply for the city er. 1 Ley realize the obstacles | to-night. The company expects to resume "1 confront them if they attempt | manufgcture to-morrow, provided the to prove it. In any investigation that | generator and boiler were not too badly might be ordered the advantage would | damaged. The loss cannot be estimated be on the side of the asylum physi- | until the damage to the generator and clans and attendants. l boiler is ascertained. -\ The Arch Conspirator Howard Has Been Traced to Canada, Where the o | und, and | nd of Camp | CASEY SWEARS HOWARD PLANNED GREEN'S MURDER James Kelly, Another of the Clever Band of Sneak Thieves, Is Caught in a New Daring Robbery, and Is Now Held Pris- oner in the City of Mexico. | | ! | } Police Authorities Expect to Apprehend Him at Any Moment---Sen- sational Developments in the Criminal Conspiracy That Found lts Center of Operations in This City. JAMES KELLY ALIAS WATSIN, HE mystery of ovements and opera criminal conspirato 1 and dominating spirit is Augustus | Heward has practically been | sived by Chief of Police Lees is | officers. A second member of gerous band, James Kelly in the of Mexico und of William Watson, and i to pay the penalty for a s 15 taring of- | fense. He is the thief who was repre- | onted by his fellow thi James | Casey, being ¢ d buried in a New Orl emetery. The arrest of Kelly has prompted police to tell of the manipulations of the Howard gang and the story re another of experienced, cle bank sneaks and safe robbers operatior have been international, whose ability has been dangerous to every community in which they moved and whose escape from just has been m rema ble. All of them, according to Chief of Po- lice Lees, from Howard to the least ex- perienced of the crowd, have either been under arrest or have worn con- vict stripes. There is every mcral con- viction to warrant the accusation that they robbed the treasure box of the | steamer Alameda and were engaged in | several other daring thefts In this work they did not stop at plans of mur- der and did not scruple to stcop to petty larceny. Bigamy, forgery, rob- | bery and grand larceny are registered | against their names. | And now James Casey, who is under | arrest at the City Prison, adds a cli- | max to the registry of their crimes by | declaring that he was paid $5000 by | Augustus Howard to murder Willard | F. Green and throw his body overboard | from the steamer Alameda. This money | was to be divided among y, Kelly | and Murphy in equal shares. The | money was paid, so Casey told a Cal. | reporter last night, by Howard the | night before the Alameda left this port This admission has given the police the chief reason for wishing to capture Augustus Howard, the head and front and master spirit of the conspiracy. ‘When Howard fled from this city he went north and is now known positive- ly to be in Canada, where his arrest is expected any day. The career of these criminals has been a strange one. They are known in a dozen cities as | all they know nest JOHN CASEY, TOO. OF HOWARD. dangerous men, but their trafic in San Francisco is at an end. Two of them are in jail, but the other including the arch conspirator, Howard, are at liberty and the police declare that they will not cease their efforts until they have placed him be- hind the bars. The criminal record of this crowd is interesting. The first trace of it, as far | as the information of the police goes, begins in Melbourne, where, in the mid- dle of 1898, Casey, Kelly and Murphy were arrested for robbery of a ware- house. The dangerous trio did not re- main long in jail, for on October 20, 1898, they succeeded in escaping and made their way to Auckland, where they prepared immediately to turn an- other criminal “trick.” On November 27, 1898, the branch of the National Bank of Auckland was robbed of £235, and suspicion fell upon Casey, Kelly and Murphy. The authorities did not possess sufiicient evidence to arrest, but now that they have it from the police of San Francisco, they indicate no very earnest desire to prosecute. MRS. JAMES KELLY, WIFE From Auckland the trail of the thieves is to San Francisco. After the robbery of the Auckland Bank the thieves found the town too | hot for them and they determined to | come to San Francisco; and they ac- | cordingly took passage on the Mari- posa on December 24, 1898, for this city, arriving here on January 11, 1899. Kelly took passage under the alias of William | Watson. Casey came under the name | of Dunnie,. Murphy under the name of James Brodie, and Kelly’'s wife and child under the name of Mrs. and Miss Reid. ' Upon their arrival here the ‘crowd separated. Casey and a man | 1 RAY PLANTS GUNS ON YUKON’S SHORES Commander of the Alaska Erects Ca - American Troops in nnon Fortifications at the Town of Eagle. ACOMA, Wash, Sept. 5.—Two big warlike cannon point out over the banks of the Yukon from Eagle. They stand on a broad plateau rising thirty feet above the stream, commanding the mighty river for miles. This interesting infor- mation is brought'by S. A. Warren, just arrived from Eagle. One might imagine, he says, that the American Yu- kon metropolis' was going to war with British Dawson, a few miles acr the line up the golden Yukon. Colonel Ray, commanding the American Yukon sol- diery, completed the erection of . the two cannon a few days . before the Warren left Eagle, August 8. Several utes were fired -in - honor of - the event. There are 150 soldiers at Eagle, and Colonel Ray is pushing work as rapidly as possible on the Gov ernment barracks, which are to cost $200,000. He wishes to get the men housed before Special Dispatch to The Call The army post is beautifully situated, rising thirty feet above the river. The troops have an immense parade ground, which occupies a por- tion of the town site, Colonel Ray hav- ing purchased a number of miners’ cabins. The cannon fortifications command the river for some distance above and below the town, which is now a port of entry. All ssels going and com- ing must stop, else the new cannon will be fired at them.: There is still another very interesting sight at Eagle just now. Three hundred tons of beer, whisky and other intoxicants are piled up on the banks of the river, having been denied admittance into British territory. Canadian authori- ties are turning back, and have been | winter. | for some time, all vessels carrying liquors. Liquors have accordingly been put ashore at Eagle, where the American customs officers seized them. —~ known as T. Lewis, and of whom the police have little knowledge, registered at the Palace Hotel, occupying the same apartment. Mrs. Kelly and her child went to the Russ House, register- ing under the name of Mrs. Reid and child. Kelly secured rooms elsewhere, but was very frequently at the Russ| House. Murphy found quarters in a hotel on Third street. As already indicated, the police know very little of Lewis, with the exception that he was in constant as- sociation with the rest of the gang and came to this city with them on the Mariposa. Lewis also left on the Mariposa on April 20, 1889, with Mur-, phy, for Sydney. Murphy on this oc- casion gave the name of J. W. Win- ton. On the return trip on the steamer Alameda a man who called himself a | mining man returned under the name of Albert Lewis. Whether this Albert Lewis is T. Lewisthe police have as yet been unable to determine. These asso- ciations and connections of Lewis and the rest of the crowd are particularly significant in relation to the robbery of the treasure box on the Alameda. It has been established absolutely that Murphy was in Auckland two days be- fore the robbery of the Alameda took place, and Lewis was supposed to be in Sydney at the time of the robbery. ‘With Casey and Kelly definitely cated in this city, the circumstances conneecting all of these criminals with the robbery are very strong. After this robbery was committed the police directed their suspicions to Kelly and Casey, of whom ve little was known at the time by the police authorities. In this investigation the police succeeded, quite unexpectedly to themselves, in establishing the fact that Casey and Kelly were two of the men who had robbed the Auckland Bank. On February 16, 1899, the Chief of Police received a letter from J. R. Tunbridge, Commissioner of Police of Wellington, New Zealand. This letter detailed the circumstances of the rob- bery of the bank and gave a descrip- tion of the notes which had been stolen. It will be remembered that the fact had been definitely established that Casey and Kelly arrived in this city on January 11, 1899, from Auck- land. In the local investigations of the police it was discovered that the very notes which had been stolen from the branch Bank of Auckland disposed of in this city by two men answering perfectly the description of Kelly and Casey. The notes were sold lo- OF THE CAPTURED THIEF Co., Goldberg & Co., and January 13th and Two crimes had thus been fas- tened beyond dispute upon Casey and to Sutro Neville & Co., on 25th. Kelly. fore. were obtained and newed their vigilance. local ery street. hicle came to a standstill had been | The police were in a much better po- sition to trace the criminals than be- Photographs of the malefactors officers re- On March 30, 1899, a wagon of the Anglo-California Bank stopped at the express office of Wells, Fargo & Co. on New Montgom- The wagon contained $10,000 in gold coin. A moment after the ve- a well- | man engaged the driver, in conversation and inquired the way to the Grand Hotel. While the | driver was talking to the stranger a | thief abstracted the coin from the wagon and escaped. The driver has | and identified it positively as the pic ure of the man who engaged him in conversation on the morning of March 30. The other man who stole the money is supposed to be either C 3’4 or Murphy, although the police have nothing in their pos i to warrant more than a suspicion. and Kel- | I» remained in San Francisco for some ! time, although they made one trip to the Sandwich Islands shortly after the robbery of the wagon. During the stay of the conspirators here M Kelly and her child changed their residence from the Russ House to a private home on Devisadero street. On May 23, 18 this city for the resulied so disastrous | them. They went from h: Los Angeles to New Orles there to the City of Mex | been shown the picture of James Kel | | y and Kelly left ir Southern trip. which y to both of re by way of . and from Casey re- mained but a very short time. when he returned i sco. arriving afterward to San had become of Kelly declared that he had died of typhoid pneumonia in New Qrleans. When C: was arrested the police captured a trunk- and several satchels marked by the name of Wat- son. Casey insisted that the baggage | belonged to him, but the police very | soon discovered that he was lying. In | | the trunk was a picture of a woman and a child, who Casey declared were his wife and baby. The pokce did not believe him, and upon investigation proved that the pictures were those of the wife and child of K This led to the trail of Kelly and to a knowledge of his di rous manipulation in the City of Mexico. In that city Kelly and a confederate who, the police are almost absolutely certain, is Cas committed another daring daylight robbery which in every particular resembles the crimes that have been established against the two men. On July 29, at the National Bank in the City of 0o, 2 man by the | name of Jos was robbed of $10,000 in notes at the paying window the ba Rojano had placed the bunch of bills on the counter and was | engaged i z a small amount | of silver. 7 this he was ac- costed by a stranger, who asked some question. Rojano answered the query and turned to find that his bunch of bills had disappeared. Another man, evidently in collusion with the inquir- ing stranger, had snatched the notes and was making for the door. An ala was given and the chase fol- lowed. The robber was caught after a flight of a few blocks and the bills were found in his possession. le was ar- rested and taken to jail, and gave the name of William Watson, the alias under which Ke! had manipulated so often and so successfully. James Kelly had been ight again. After remaining in prison for some time he was ted at his own request by the British Vice Consul at the City of Mexico. Kelly begged the Consul to believe that s a British ject. He decl that he had just re v a letter from his wife from Cornwall, England, and that, made des her representations of dist: committed the crime. This fictitious story made an impression, but shortly afterward Kelly received a telegram from George D. Collins, an attorney of this city, who is now defending John Casey in the Police Court. In the meantime Chief of Police Lees had been corresponding with the police au- thorities of Mexico, and had establish- ed beyond precedence the interesting fact that William Watson was James Kelly, one of the most accomplished bank sneaks in the werld. The zeal of Collins had done much to betray the whereabouts of his client. ‘While Casey and Kelly were engaged in their operations on this side of the Pacific, Murphy and Lew were not s by any means idle on the other side. TUnder the name of J. W. Winton, Mur- phy left here on the steamer Mariposa on April 20, 1899, for the Colcnies. He ended his journey at Auckland. Lewis took passage on the same steamer with Murphy and went on to Sydney. On June 2, 5000 sovereigns were found missing from the steamer Alameda. The two men had, therefore, ample op- portunity in which to commit the rob- bery. When they left here they were bid an affectionate farewell at the dock, by George Adams, the associate and close friend of Augustus Howard. The association of all of the men is thus thoroughly established. Adams is now on his way to London. Mrs. Kelly and her child and Mrs. Adams and hep Continued an Third Pasa,