The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1899, Page 10

10 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 GAMBLERS STRIVE TO BREAK DOWN PROTESTS Seeking fo Divide the Decent Citi- zens of Colma. Raiders Promise Positions After Incorporation to Those Who Will Support Th wve not by any ned their purpose n of Colma oration. The sition of the peo- 3 used by the e Call, has forced v halt, de- est purpose, ble, to break down the sent instance. 1y reason to 1 of Colma as a pt to secure th 5 ex WS as It is a fact Mateo County that bona- over t enough legitimate, r0st pliant tool 1 if Colma ci ion that entatic and the Aan the no CASEY EAPLAINS HOW HE FOOL PLUNGER HOWARD Jumped Off the Ala—“ meda’s Rail. reet, where murder the in reach- who saw him 1 b him to hi Larkin. As [ been out boat- the craft o swim to In the meantime Green missed the clever crook and falling to find him after L search concluded that he had ac- d y fallen overboard and was Ye tives Gibson and Ellis v Detec ry street ndlady. meda had_ iough he had | His clothes | when asked 1 gaid that he had met the bay and had a narr INUTES | S Nl em—To Make of the tion. assertions of the gamblers. The cour- ng park is simply a blind to cover | the creation of a gambling town, free for all games of chance, Eastern races, sure-thing games and general vicious- After incorporation the decent of Colma will be utterly at the of the raiders. The scheme of the gamblers to divide opposition will not succeed even if some of the leaders do fall by the way- ness. peopl me: side. The entire county is aroused, and the Supervisors have indicated their | purpose to represent honestly the best sts of the county. It is extremely likely that the touts will attempt to hold another meeting at all hazards, as their failure of Saturday night has dis- credited their cause and has shown conclusively that they do not possess the support of ‘the people of the town. The case of the raide a desperate They must be near San Francisco order to ply their trade with success. want the petty thieves, all ff of the big an element n to people. of San Francisco, on the expulsion from Sausalito, barred from Oakland, the manipulators must go to San Mateo. That they will strive r another meeti 1 attempt gamblers and cheap riffrs city, and trar of portation grave these en out e of con a also to make the Supervi prove false to their constituents there can be no question, but the issue is now a plain one. It is a struggle between de- cency and indecency, and the Super- visors of San Mateo must decide on | Whose banner the victory will perch. on , but made no attempt to in- 2 n. g that Howard would realize had been given the “double cross” ed himself, Casey trave y r time He los who news from told the pals had He him to tk ing an c the h Howard was »ws,” as he expres i bundle of gr ised him to get out o mindful of h et and w d by the de- tectives terday C Detective 1d given Howard the admjtted that he isey repeated to Chief he I nd his men. and his ¢ . George D. hat Judge corpus behalf. intention of the another charge refuse to reveal DR. M'QUEEN UPHOLDS THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT IS DOING ITS BEST IN police the natur of which they LUZON. At Bimpson Memorial Church last night Rev. Dr. Peter MacQueen of Boston, r cently returned from eight months’ visit to the Philippines, . upon his observations and experiences there. Dr. MacQueen went out a n editor of the National Magazine of Boston. t night I in part: ents some of the its of history. began this beauti- ons are gre elves and ul titles of tor. r, when we he people B pines. To-day a_sull Luzon and by the riv e ue inch by inch, strai; be free from the governanc e In spite of the fact that out of its they have not gained a point, the the nay nerve to Iiber: or 100 fi are still deflant, flying across the land with r wives and’ children, burning their homes ctuaries with their own heep in the shamble mood so deflant that I have been quoted in the York and elsewhere as though to the attitude of the President ministration in their plans for the islands. This is not the case. I have no party affifli- ations, and wish to study the problem sim- ply as a patriot and a_eitizen, The unfortunate Tagal war came on through y causes—chiefly, I think, because do not_admit of ‘a fors allows the President, in the gency, to ore_Congress has acted on a_national No doubt the long delay made friction _unavoidable. @ not yet heard the whole of the but there exists scarce possible oom to doubt that our men endured great provocation and insult with magnanimity and patience. I associated a_great deal with the Russian, German and French correspondents attaches and found them agreeing on point, although they were rather agalnst actions later on. There Is evidence everywhere that the ad- ration is dofng all In its power to set right in the Philippines. Even the General Otls recalling Lawton in the middle of the Paranaque flght—or rather bidding him to stop in the middle of the af- ternoon—was a humane order, sent for the of letting the women and children e from the town. Incldentally and gal- lantly the men and soldlers accompanied them, things orders of and ‘we found the city deserted save for a few cats and dogs, which were not contra- band of w withstanding much that can be said for al Otis as a man st and painstaking, it is still true that he is thought to be incom- petent to run the army and also the civil Gov- ernment. The man is overworked and will likely break down from the overstrain of at- tempting the impossible. Moreover, the fact that the army wants a man with it on the fighting zone, and that they have not the en- thusiasm for General Otis that they have for men like Funston, Wheaton and Lawton, is good ground for the people to consider whether they do not want a new general in Luzon, Law- ton is the great military man of the Philip- pines, and Wheaton is a noble fighter. I al- ways went with those men. Where they were you were always sure to see bloodshed. The army wants Lawton for commander. One man has got to have entire military control. Be- cjuse if you have three, they will cut one an- other up Instead of the Filipinos—one man will start an expedition to-day, another next week, and so on, regardiess of the movements of the other. A young man of great military and civil ability was General Irving Hale of Colorado. He would have made a splendid Governor for Manila. That city should ba aetivered from the bondage of martial law. The native police are better than ours in that they know the haunts of crime, the language and the crooks of the place. This is as untrue as are the other | { 1899. PINKERTON OPERATIVES SAY FRANK LANDIS WAS MURDERED BULLET In PRATITION E. : : L] S.P.R.R. TRACIK. oo Ja§ o | 0w A kerton National Detective through its operatives in y, has just concluded a thorough investigation into the death of Frank Landis, the young merchant who was found dead on the morning of August 9 in his store at Lincoln, Placer County, with a bullet in his body. The verdict of the in- vestigators is that Landis was mur- dered, : by burglars sur- rised in his Store before they had iad time to secure any plunder. Conditions existing at the time of the discovery of the body led im- mediately to the theory of murder, but it was not _long before the sus- picion advanced that young Landis had taken his own life, after having made elaborate preparation to mislead the community into the t lief that he had met with foul y A 38-caliber bullet, similar to thos fitting his revolver, was found In his body. The weapon, with one chamber discharged, and Landis' hat were found near the corpse. Another bul- let, claimed at the time to have been oo e efefrfrrte fired from the young merchant's weapon, was found imbedded in a partition separating the rear of the atore from a stairway opening onto shot titlon and, after throwing away the in the weapon against In further support of this from his revolver into the par- another = car- < Sixth street. A lamp in the office was overturned. f+ The theory of those who believed + young_man had_ committed sui- - was that he had overturned the = after unlocking the front and 1 doors of the store, to lead to i belief that there had been a i uggle, that he had then fired one 2 B b shell and putting had turned theory, the Sheriff produced an empty’ shell, similar to those in Landis’ revolver, which had been found among a pile of boxes In the rear of the store. Despite this theory and the facts so deftly woven around it, there were many who belleved that Landis was murdered. They pointed to the fact that there appeared to be an entire absence of motive for suicide, while, on the contrary, there was every reason why Landis should value life. His business was in a prosperous con- dition; he was engaged to marry a charming young lady and he was In the enjoyment of excellent prospe The Coroner's jury did not feel com- petent to settle the matter, returning : el oo el ANOTHER YOUNG VICTIM OF THE MERCILESS CAR Lulu Sumner’s Life Crushed Out. An accldent occurred yesterday after- noon on the line of the Mission-street cars through which another young life was crushed out beneath the wheels. swout 5:45 in the afternoon car 1058 of the Kearny-street line while on its down- town trip knocked down and crushed Lulu Sumner, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Charles Sumner, a janitor at the Mission- street carhouse of the Market-street Rall- road, residing at 24 West avenue. The ac- cident happened on Missiop street, oppo- slm‘ Cortland avenue, about a block from the®carhouse. The unfortunate girl, who was near-sighted and wore glasses, had just stepped fron an outward-bound Ingleside car, and walked behind it to cross the street to West avenue, when the Inward-bound car, well filled with passen- gers, came along. The girl crossed the track, seemingly unmindful of the ap- proach of the car. She did not seem to realize the danger, and walked almost di- rectly to the car, when it struck her and knocked her down and rolled her about 100 feet before it could be stopped, there bleiug a heavy grade at that particular ace. Pthe body of the girl was carried Into Lyons' drug store, opposite, and Dr. W. R. Bcroggs, who resides next door, was summoned. When the physician arrived the girl was unconscious and In utter collapse. He immediately applied restoratives and tried to induce artificlal respiration, but to no avall; the unfortunate girl died in about an hour. ‘While the patient was being cared for in the back room of the drug store a sad scene was enacted in the front. The father of the innocent victim was walit- ing impatiently the report from her bed- side, and when the news was told him the unfortunate man broke down com- pletely. The blow comes doubly hard to LUMBER YARD FRANIKK LANDIS S!XTH STREET , LANDIS’ SAry STORE il SEVENTA 5STREET t Landis came to his gunshot wound at the hands of some party unknown.” This verdict left t Landis’ taking off z question as befor for all it was ded Pinkerton age Mo for this purpose was raised and 1perintend- ent Vannatta of this city ral of his men to the s result of their investigation was given in a report mailed yesterday to Lincoln. First of all they motive that might a verdict “tb death from a e manner of ich of an open tle it once to employ the To d looked for some ive led Landis to committ suicide. Th found none. On the contrary, th found every- thing that would go to show the voung merchant’'s desire to live. Then the detectives looked into Landis’ movements on the night of August 8. They found that he had closed store between 9 and 9:15 o'cloc The lamp usually left burn- ing s lighted when B. Logan, a friend of Landis’ called there at 9:30 o'clock and found the door locked. t that time Landis was at Helge- loon and remained there until going to the Hotel he gave Town Mar- Redding, a letter to mail. s letter, afterwe en by the Pinkerton agents, was 1 ordinary epistle to Landis’ father re- that certain articles of mer- » be forwarded. Landis remained at the Burdge Hotel until 10:40 o'clock in conversa- tion with H. Hanna, when he left, going toward his store. He was in ordinary spirits, and passing John- son’s printing office, jocularly asked the men inside If they never quit work. That is the last seen of Landis allv the invi after one known to gator: t was then o'clock. At 10:33 o'clock, they have absolute proof that the Lamp in Landis' store, which was lighted while he was at Helge- n's was not burning. Constable villlam Hughes fixes the time posi- tively, his attention having been lled to the absence of light as he passing. Ben Silas, a tamale peddler, says there was no light in the store at 10:27, when he passed, and J. D. Green testifies to the same condition. The theory of the Pinkerton op- eratives is that burglars, having noted Landis' departure, got Into the store a few minutes later and extinguished the light, and were making ready to 10:40 however, him, as it is only a month since he buried his wife. He has four other chil- dren. The motorman of the car, Frederick F. Sherwood, was arrested by Officer Wil- liam P. Dalton and brought to the Sev- enteenth-street station, where a charge of manslaughter was piaced opposite ~ his name. He immediatelw released on his own recognizance. GERMAN LADIES PICNIC. | The Benevolen?go’eietyv Celebrates Its Eleventh Anniversary at Shell Mound Park. Over 1000 members and friends of the German Ladies’ Benevolent Society went to Shell Mound Park yesterday to cele- brate the eleventh annual picnic of the organization. The arrangements were in the hands of the following ladies: Mrs. V. Wrede, Mrs. Johansen, Mrs. Stein, Mrs. Rummel and Mrs. Dornbludth. The reception committee was composed of Stein, Mr. Beechorman, C. Paul, A. Top- ken and C. Wills. During the day young and old enjoyed dancing to music ren- dered by Von der Mehden's band. The interest of the children was centered on the booth just outside the entrance to the | sofa | pavilion, where everything from a pillow to a coffee pot was in evidence and for sale. The ladies vied with each other in thelr endeavor to please all who attended, and the success of the affair was due to their untiring efforts. The proceeds of the picnic will be turned into the funds of the Reu Cross Society, with which the ladies have associated them- selves in many ways during the past year. —————————— PATRIOTIC SERVICES HELD. Rev. Dr. Cherington Preaches a Ser- mon at the Plymouth Church. The Junior Order of United American Mechanics and Daughters of Liberty at- tended last evening's services at the Plymouth Congrgational Church in a body. The church was tastefully dec- orated for the occasion with American flags. Promptly at 7:30 o'clock the ervices began with an organ voluntary, “America.” " A selected quartet sang sev- eral patriotic airs, which were followed bfl a stirring sermon by the pastor of the church, the Rev. F. B. Cherington, D.D. He took for his text part of the eléventh verse of the eighth chapter of Deuter- onomy. “Therefore you shall Keep all the commandments which command you this day.” Dr. Cherington said that in looking™ through the congregation he could see that most of the young le were just on the threshold of life; he urged them to be good, brave, strong and l;yu;lfi; ;g:el service wa.\:;l dra.v:n stlo a cllgge e whole congregation singing “The Btar-spangled Bl.nng erg.% N.RELGESGN™ SALOSN wwmERe LANDIS PLAYED POOw. | | MAOTE L ANE CRIMAMONS G STREET foofeefesfooiefoofontonforierfe shonforfonterie ofsefenfonfeefe sfoofonterfosfeatonte cfoefecfortoofurferfsofe sfecfortent - : i % BURDGE AASTEL T LANDIS AT T T S o oo el rob the place when Landis returned. In support of told 3 this theory they were by Tony and Manuel Arrunda, passed close to the store on Sixth at 10:10 o’clock, that they heard e from the inside as if a number of boxes had fallen. Any number of people h: two shots, which, from variou ments, were fired with an interval of eight or ten seconds between. Frank Crane, Tom A son, C. Hislop, Will v, Gus Casino and Walter Sagee say ihey were fired at 10:46 o' Constable Hughes, M. Matzen, Allen, a druggist, Mrs, Frith, ' O. Stafford, Peter Anderson, Marshal E. W. Redding, F. S. Davis, and A. C. Fleming, the Southern Pacific agent, say the shots were fired between 10:45 and 10:50 o’clock. Some stress was laid by the sup- orters of the suicide theory on_the act that Landis had taken three drinks during the evening. They claimed it was an unusual proceeding on the part of the young merchant, and pointed to it as a circumstanc that he had taken liquor to brace h nerve for suicide. The detectives have found any number of people who v not only was it Landis’ cus- tom to take several drinks before going to bed, but that that night in particular hé did not drink of his own motion, having been invited on each occasion. His return to the store was also in line with his cus- tom, and_the theory that he did so and 'was killed by burglars also leads to the additional supposition that the man or men inside were unaware of this habit of his and were surprised at_his return. The theory of d the Placer Sheriff that the bullet found in the store partition was from Landis’ revolver {&'Tot borne out by the facts. The bul- let was brought to this city last week by Deputy Sheriff Stevens and taken by him to A. Browning, a gunsmith at $20 Kearny street, to whom he was recommended by ‘Chief of Police Lees. The gunsmith examined the bullet in his presence and that of a Pinkerton operative, and decided A e positively that it had not come from + Landis’ _revolver. Here the case rests. The detectives . were employed to determine whether or not murder had been committed. . The evidence they have unearthed answers in the affirmative. 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