The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1900, Page 1

s The VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 169, This Paper no? to be taken fro™ ibrary — SAN' FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1900. BY OVERWHELMING FORCE ROBERTS DEFEATS BOERS British Commander-in-Chief Personally Di- rects Battles and Secures. Two More Important Points. B+t et 0t 00000000000 D & 3 SN Sra— *oe c. et Lord Roberts himseif reported the equally important B - THE IRON HORSE TO THE FRONT. FROM RACTION ENGINE! OF TRANSPORTATIO TRY PERMITS THEIR NG ON HIS HANDS A INA, THE UNITED STATES AND ( ) THAT HAVE BEE D hing Company. points have been captured In the From the press correspondents by Geperal lan Hamilton's the taking of Smaldeel, or Winburg road, which is | main line from Bloemfontein to Pretoria and the | t to Winburg. | e coming In concerning the brisk fight for Vet River. From | r es. General Pole-Carew start- | river. He arrived at Eensge- = | * , and here he halted. The at 1 oclock | Lucas e in num the - here that t the country #¥INBURG AND SMALDEEL CAPTURED BY STRATEGY May 7.—The movement the capture of Win- 1 was part of a great extending from Gen- e west to General Run- neral Roberts’ admir- placing ever LDEEL E resulted in ¥ w rit » one Boer. Out of w ricable confu- | - s and brigades order was | and the Boers were com- rd Roberts under unfa- is that the wait. Their front jons are safe in their their flanking columns utflank the Boers. e B held a really strong which earlier in the cam- ¢ ¥ have been forced by e important g ugh mot directly out- he Boers, made their position y uncomfortable. General Hut- ton's movement on the left was even more cessful than at first imagined. Forty Boers were killed march to-day was short, but Gen- Pole Carew's division marched fifty- miles in four days General Tucker's division is marching on our left to-day and General Maxwell's brigades will be able to cross the river before night. Lord Roberts has been very strict in his nation of the farms, with the result of disciosing the fact that nearly every house is @ miniature arsenal, Mausers, Martinis and abundant ammunition being found. If these had not been discovered the army would be leaving in its rear the material in arms and men for a danger- ous move of the inhabitants. The er: who was well antagon| seral Hamilton's arrival | tance of 300 yards. batteries, pushed | batteries caused the the enemy’s artil- moved er the guns in the Boer ch guns, coming suc- , the two Boer guns being to the west with the Canadians, d infantry, attacked the Boers ss. The Boers, who were led In this Mayer, ber of machine guns, but the mounted s out of the river bed, crossed the General Hutton dur- ¥ near Smaldeel, in the rolling stock, but the last train owing that the surge forward g back the Boers on both sides. s have fired across Vaal River n evacuated. The British there, Hunter and have crossed the second In command of the Fed- i | | | General the strong position which they troops h taken possession jercing the Boers' po- ft it is extended to- it runs southeast to the north to guess. The a great one, but It is is difficult must be it ong the rallroad culverts, wherever size. have cers hope and In been utterly destroyed, | to make a detour others they will fill of any but ns of the Vet River | destroyed, and ke a temporary | as at the Modder. reard this afternoom | showing that more culverts and bridges | are being destroyed northward. — - MOURNING AND MURDER. LONDON, May 7.—A A dispatch from Lo- bombo dated T May 3, says the | Queen of Swaziland has ordered the| | Swazis to hasten their harvest and as-| | semble for weeping for the dead King. A Malagana chief and nine women and | | nine children have been killed at the] | Malaganas kraal and ‘the plains are | { strewn with the skeletons of murdered | | natives. Kreough, the Boer administrator | of Swaziland, has been recalled to Pre- toria. - DEPRESSION AT MAFEKING. LONDON, May 8—Lady Sarah Wilson wires from Mafeking under date of April 22 as follows: *The situation is un- | changed. The garrison is depressed vat | there being no sign of relief, but e as de- termined as ever to deprive the Boers of a crowning triumph on the western bor- der. A case of whisky realized $540 and a pound of flour was sold @t auction for two | | guineas.” | SNYMAN ALARMED. LONDON, May 8—The Lourenzo Mar- ves correspondent of the Times say: | Commandant Snymean is so alarmed the prospect of ha his retreat cut off J l.hn.’hn fi’:: appealed for permission to re- tire northward from Mafeking to inter- cept Colonel Plumer.” L SPE SVER, AND ARRANGEMENT | we captured s | force. CH CAPABLF T IN TH AND FOR THE TWC ALREADY DR. BEE ADA DURI T TO HIM. ONDON, ) of their defenses. stad . hills are reached. WING EIGHT OR TRAL PART OF S, EXCEPT FOR MOUNTS, i8 N MADE TO SUPPLY HIM WiTH THIS MONTH AND THE FIRST HALF OF JU 8, 4:20 a. m.—The Boers are everywhere retiring before t on the Natal frontier and at i TEN WAGOD LORD ROBERTS THE ORANGE FRBEE STATE,? | 00 FRESH . e o e I SRCSY SRCNP R PN A MDA PN B o SRCE SRR SO Sy ) The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1800, by the Herald Publis! the ki to the Inner ecircle Marcking, They appear determined not to fight until the Kroon- Lord Roberts s expected to do another forty or fifty miles and then wait for a time ~ order to bring up supplies and repair the raflway. There are one or two hints in the dispatches from the front that he may rest for a few days at Smaldeel General French’s 10,000 cavalry has not been mentioned in the official. or un- official dispatches for four days. the conjecture Ladybrand district. frontier of the Free State. th nton and Mafeking. It s by no means likely that he is idle, and is that he Is either detouring toward Kroon: Fifteen thousand Brigish are now cper ad or raiding the ng on the western As the deadlock at Warrenton has been broken and sers are retreating there is nothing formidable, except dissance, between The most hopeful advices from 2 were that the garrison would be barely able to hold out for a month. time the fever was spreading. According to advices from Maseru, Bas Mafeking of April At that toland, several thousand Free Staters are north of Ladybrand, where they have collect. t herds. The & ived not to mc rict is rich in food for men and hérses, and northward, but to be preparing to e let alone they will menace the line of communications after the the Boers where they ist main British army has passed into the Transvaaly Lord RobéFts and Lord Kitchener personally directed the artillery in the Vet River engagement. Queen Victoria will send a signed photograph to Colonel Kekewich, the hero of Kimberle; Bix thous nd four hundred and fifty-eight troops are now at sea on the way to South Africa. No others are under orders to go except as recruits to fill up the losses of regiments at the front. BRITISH VIETORIES AS REPORTED BY ROBERTS LONDON, May 7.—The War Office has received the following dispatch from Lore Roberts, dated Smaldeel, May 7, a m.: “General Hunter, after defeating the enemy May 4, joined hands with Paget near Warrenton. The enemy left thirteen killed and wounded on the ground and ral prisoners. Our losses were slight. Hunter speaks in high terms of the gallantry of the yeomanry under Colonel Maybrick. The enemy have re- tired from the front of Thaba Nchu and the exceedingly strong position they held is now occupied by Rundle’s divisign.” Earlier in the day Lord Roberts report- ed to the War Office in a dispatch dated Smaldeel, May 6, afternoon, as follows: “We crossed the Vet River this morning and are now encamped at Smaldeel Junc- tion. The enemy is in full retreat toward Zand River and Kroonstad. The turning movement was made by the mounted in- fantry just before dark yesterday. It was a very dashing affair. The Canadians, New South Wales, New Zealand Rifles and Queensland Mounted Infantry vied with each other in the determination to close with the enemy. Captain Anley of the Essex Regiment. commanding the Third Infantry Battalion, behaved in a very gallant manner. “The naval guns and the artillery made excellent practice, particularly two 5-inch guns used for the first time with this We captured a Maxim and twenty- five prisoners. Our casualties are very few—only fifteen wqunded, one killed and three missing.” BOERS DRIVEN OUT.« WARRENTON, Cape Colony, May 7.— The Boers have been driven out of Four- teen Streams and the British are now encam*d on the north bank of the Vaal River. CONFESSES TO HAVING PASSED A COUNTERFEIT One More Member of the Pennsyl- vania Gang Taken by Secret Service Men. PHILADELPHIA, May T7.—Another chapter in the famous Lancaster coun- terfeiting conspiracy case was made pub- lic to-day by the arrest of Harry Taylor, charged with having passed a counterfelt $20 note bill found in circulation last week. Confronted with the evidence of his gulilt, | Taylor confessed his part in the conspir- haying passed all the e “Manning head"” de- discovered in this @ brother of Ar- now awalting sen- acy. He admitted spurious notes of % city, thur Taylor who & tence for having engraved the cigar reve- nye stamps and the famous counterfeit Monroe 3100 silver dollar e 2 which resulted in the arrest of Josabs and Kendig, the Lancaster cigar manu- acturers, and Ellory P. Ingham and Har- vey K. Hewitt, formerly United States District Attorney and stant respec- After the arrest of Harry Taylor Chief Wilkie and Operative Burns of the searet | ure Bal service brought pre Arthur Taylor aund who are in prison her having engraved the ‘Manning notes and that they had induced v Taylor to circulate them. Bredell assisied Taylor in engraving the bogus g2 s and the Monroe 3100 note. Arthur Taylor said to the officers that about 150 of the $20 notes were struck off and that of this number Tay] 1d pass- ed five. The remainder. had “destroyed. "}:iff Wilkie, in speaking of the arrest, said: “This was a scheme on the part of Tay- lor and Bredell to bring the Government to terms and w=s the resuit of the advie of some disreputable 3 The was that after the notes were circulated they would wait until near the time for sentencing Taylor and Bredell and then the latter would inform the Government that they could furnish it with plates of which the “secret service knew nothing. ;l’helr'phjert was to secure a lighter sen- ence. ATTACK ON CANPS OF BOUN‘DAE COMMISSION Chinese Natives Repulsed With a Loss of Thirty Men in Wei-Hai- ‘Wei Province. SHANGHAT, May T—A premeditated attack was made upon two camps of the Wei-hai-Wel Boundaryl Commission on May 5. Major Penrose and four"men of the Chinese regiment were wounded. e at- tacking party was repulsed with the s of thirty men Kkilled. The disturbances are due to Chinese officials working on the credulity of the natives. —_— STREET-CAR MEN IN ST. LOUIS TO STRIKE Mass Meeting Held and the Resolu- tion Carried Without Dis- sent. ST. LOUIS, May 8.—At 2 o'clock the mass meeting of the employes of the St. Louis Transit Company, without a dis- senting voice, decided to go on strike im- modl:fel . Twenty-six hundred men par- ticipated in the mecting. to bear upon dwin 8, R Bredell, ] B S 5 P’ S 2 PEOEII I DGO IeO PGt OIPIOsDOIEDO 0000000000000 e0 00 INJEPENDENT OF¢ | ? B, WHICHJ, | idea | PRICE FIVE CENTS e iy 1l ! L B S R S R O S S amCa SECE SR SRR ST A g R e R S S e S RO A SRy = R S e s s Freidenrich & Ack-| HE innocence of Barry Getz of any |law firm of Na | connection with the robbery and ;vrrlzmn- Messrs, Iy and Freldenrich | shooting of Fred Bortzmeyer was | P€INg present in court. | . Ry wdd . When the case was called it was found | & completely established yesterday. | (pat tiet & genbein was not present. whispered conversation with Detective Ed Wren the court announced that the case s made by the police to e crime upon Getz be- bout his | Despite the effs, fasten the do | cause of his inability to tell all a movements on the night of tie shooting and the fact that he happened to start for his home in that nelghborhood short- Iy before the hold-up, he s through Bortameyer's tion, entirely cleared of al in connectlon with that affair ths been directed toward him since rest. With the declaration of Bortzmeyer that Getz is not the man who held him up and sent a bullet through his body, the theory of Policeman Brown that Getz | was a bold, bad highwayman s like a toy balloon the charge against him m Mr. phtaly. “We want Ziegenbein produced.’ “1'll send out for the man,” said Judge | 4 ‘s not here by 11:30 rant for him ! oduced Ziegenbein at The sailor said he had mistaken the | The hen went over until to- elock. meyer's father reached this city from Cincinnati last night and was ad- | mitted to the bedside of the son he had | £ n rears. Bortz- | wealthy man. Romance in Bortzmeyer’s Life. | There ce in connection with | s coming to California. | this man 1spicion bas 1 oses all weight ane up 5 g | Srominently the bicter stateme Mt | Gy, Butshad pioked Sut & wite For him | Margaret Moore in regard to Brown's | "o o 1aqy with whom the boy had | | motives in causing Getz's arrest. | been reared.” The son. said he did not Made Bortzmeyer Smile. Getz saw the injured man yesterday and | the latter smiled at the idea that his vis- itor was the man who shot him, declaring he in no way resembled the murderously inclined footpad. Wearying of told him if he refused he would ake his ow way in the futu E rtzmeyer accepted the alterna- ve, left home and has been supporting | | himself since. Now comes a_happy re- | union through the medifm of the font- | pad’s ‘murderous bullet, which brings the | father hundreds of miles to What he had A or e e cared would be the death bed of the son ad been openly accused of the e lacd | from whom he had been estranged. e S o le Nl doubts In the | Young Bortzmeyer has certainly been | o e DS L e oowhetner he fired | snatched from the Valley of the Shadow. | mind of the PublIG A oment of his ar- | he is now out of danger. | Though stili | rest Getz had expressed himself as will- | weak his temperature Is normal and he ing to face Bortzmeyer and yesterday he gaining strength each day. | | proved his sincerity by going before the wounded man as stated. A Romancer at Work. | The weakness of the police case| The story of an alleged hold-up on | against Getz was shown in court vester-| Montgomery street yesterday morning | day. The man who claims that Getz held tm up on Howard st month did got a;r:pear willingly when the | case was called. —He s not present at | the hour set and there semed L0 e hia | the saloon mentioned and there was ab- | anxlety onrt.rx]m;es’m“}!:fwl::lfk ought In later | Solutely no ground whatever on which | | By"orir ‘of the coust because Geta's &t- | 16 P55 (Chleswiten Ted to I pustice, | ‘;r';ll;.neyii;lewfi‘n hce pu}x through a.severe :,1 i‘u{‘\cv been made known to the Chief | cross-examination by them when he goes | - el v(v}xeut];s;‘:::(‘fiortzmeyer. | RE Al)m R ANY CRIME | | | s v Getz presented himself at | gLt e O arium and asked to be | permitted to see the wounded man. Bortz- | Ineyer had passed & day, with a nor- | mal temperature, upon’ his ~za:mfi | t | | These Two Men May Have Robbed Safe on 'the pillow and gazing at Getz.with a atSanlLecandro. smile on his white, dm;v? !flcet.he » su | "¥o';1 never saw me before, then™ SUS-| , .,;mon key bearing the stamped | B No: I never did,” replied the footpad's | number 22 may prove the means of land- | victim. *“The man who shot me was very | ing two desperate criminals behind the much shorter than you are: he was slim- | hars of a State prison. A clever idea of | mer and had a ?rme;’:r‘l ghin. It's easy 10 | captain of Detectives Seymour, cleverly seée’!’:“;;s“fi{lufi%d o stay in the room | eXecuted by Detectives Dinan and Wren, only about two minutes, it being feared | resulted in unearthing evidence that will probably lead to the putting of two very the patient might become excited. When he e':nered the room Getz was scmewhat bad men out of business for a time. The attention of Sergeant Christiansen | hervous, but when he came out he was s ~“Though he had { R e e ameve $ | of the California-strect pollce station was attracted yesterday afternoon to two fenr that Bortzmeyer would identify m’m ;s the robber, ne was afraid the in- ‘ rough customers who were trying to make a ‘“rough house” of a saloon near the | jured man might express a_doubt. Con- corner of Montgomery and Pacific streets. the suspicion directed toward him by his arrest at the instiga- th n of Policeman Brown, the man who to have been a palpable fa of the pe dreamer.” | No person ever related such a story at| . woven out | ol d mal he would like to see the.r fhat e thrown into jail unde® suspicion of ‘shooting him Getz was shown up to his_room. - |~ ““On, no, you're not the man; you're too fat,” 'said Bortzmeyer, turning. his head tly Bortzmeyer's positive declara- Hon that Getz was not the robber was | satisfactory to him. VGitz is about 5 feet 9 inches in height | They finally got on a car at Kearny ana | and weighs in the neighborhood of 19 | Pacific streets and one of them immedi- | unds. ps:}e“ ‘shook hands warmly with Bortz- meyer when he left and wished him a speedy recovery. Both men secemed well SPeasca with the result of the meeting. The police were busy with footpad mat- | ters yesterday. Detective Dillon filed a report in the matter of the shooting of Frank Boell, in which he stated his belief that Boell was shot by a rival, who was jealous of his attentions to chhle Peter- sen, otherwise known as Mrs. Jack Ennis rt street. o"l"hz; g‘l"‘l‘::rn ab\.m|ed themselves also try- to prove that most of the robberies ately commenced a fight with the con-| ductor over the payment of his fare. - The sergeant arrested the man and took him to a patrol box, where he instructed | Officer McGee to turn in an alarm. While this was belng done the prisoner tried to | break away from the sérgeant and his | companion ran up to help him. McGee and Sergeant Muhonem who had arrived on the scene, took a hand and the fight- ing was fast and furious. Christlansen’'s coat was nearly torn off him, but the two crooks were finally clubbed into sub- mission and taken to the Central police ng station. recently reported were fakes. The same The prisoners gave thelr names as Exirn dotail was kept at work last nigh | Georas Locan snd Wiliam Jehnson: The in the darkened Western Addition. Getz in the Police Court. 3y ‘clock yesterday morning Getz w:-l tl:k:nc &”rml"muce Mogan on the with intent to commit Shares ot';;:nnul!lo by the sailor Albert ]E?E‘b:;zelm He was represented by the police are confident they have two des- | te criminals in these two men and it [ possible they robbers who Leandro a few days ago. sensation was produced when they searched. On each of them was B R I S R e Bortzmeyer Declaring That Getz Is Not the Man Who Robbed and Shot Him. dy to go ahead,” said | dri want to marry the girl, and the father. | it was investigated by the police and found | BORTZMEYER CLEARS | GETZ OF SUSPICION Two Désperate Crooks Are Arrested on Kearny Street After a Fierce Struggle With Officers. Black Mufflers and Revofvers Found on Their Persons and a Ratchet Brace and Drills in the ‘Room They Occupied. SN SIS D R e R e SR S SRR SRR IR ] * 4] 4 * *P oo e eieisieses® found a large neck mautfler of heavy black figu silk. John: had one of them being Allen and the 2 lidog. He also had a new pocketknifelwith a blade al- that bf large as utcherknife v in m 5 a § t railr f The mufflers an that the police may be mystery of the re imagine. Both men carried and r solving the ps than they a ent hol¢ new watches worth $1 9 each and wore new chains of cheap make. Each wore a new negligee shirt of the same make. All these new articles and the fact that they were drunk showed they had got hold of, some money. On Johnson was found a key bearing the number Detectives Wren and Jinan, acting under Captain Seymour's nstructions, tc the key and set out to find a door it would fit ey found that the key re: unlocked the door of room 22 of the I y House, 765 Market street. The proprietor s. the room had been rented the re by two men. He nd Logan. The of- room and found a ght drills. Three of were covered with cement. In the e also found two suits of under- the men had evidently police are convinced the two prison- ers are all-round crooks. From the im- plements found in_their D sion 1t is evident - ared to do or anything Logan is a tall, smooth-faced young man. Johnson is of medium height, has a_light mustache and a damaged nose. Neither man fits the description given by Bortzmeyer of the man who robbed him. Neither would tell where = lived or where he came from. Johnson showed fight, even while handcufféd in Captain mour’s office. A receipt in Logan's possession shows the wat and chains e bought at M. H. Blankenstein's, 630 Wi Kearny street. It is thought the men are recently from in city and claims he has fe. Johnson is criminal certainly of the tw he never met Logan bef 3 Other questions he would not ans nd told the police tioners they could go find and other qu 3 ers to questions put their own answ The men probably had another safe job in view jud: ew drills, evidently an’s pos- session. charges of resisting detectives | work to serious offense on them. —_— Held for Robbery James Burns was held yesterday to answer before t Superior Court by Judge Mogan on a cha of robbery in $2000 bonds. He was accused of knoeking down Fred Houseman. an ex-conviet, and robbing him of $30 at Vallejo and Kearny streets about a week ago. Houseman was an unwilling witness for the prosecution. - aendh Wilson’s Death a Mystery. The auestion as to whether Sergeant Robert Wilson of the Sixth Artillery com- mitted suicide or w: ed is des- tined to remain una hn Kes- sack and Ida de ¥ . who were held as suspects, were released from custody yesterday morning. The woman's case was referred to District Attorney Bying- ton, who notified the police that there was no case against her. Captain Sey- mour believes that the sergeant commit- ted suicide, but the circumstances brought out at the inquest pointed to murder. MAY ESCAPE TRIAL. Irregularity Alleged in Indictment of Dyer and Harris. SAN JOSE, May 7.—Motions have been made in the Superior Court to set aside the indictments against Justice E. G. Dyer of Palo Alto, Deputy Constable Harris of this place and Wong Fong, the Chinaman in jail. These are the men charged with kidnaping in the notorious Kim Quey case. The motion is based on numerous alle- ations of error on the part of the Grand Sory, chiefly, however. it is urged, that are ti looted Wells, Fargo & B;:- safe at San | the body was not legally formed, and then ys ound that it did t is challenged on the 3 v - e motion will be not act impartisliv. heard -