The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1900, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from: the Library.++++ | REINFORCEMENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA Creat Britain Prepares to Hurry More Troops to Cope With the Boers, and Aus-| tralia and New Zealand Appealed To. “ollowing the Daring Escape of Dewet|Several Men Acquainted With the City Comes a Second Invasion of Capz Col-| ony by the Rallied Republican Forces. ONDON nation from Lord Kitch- men belonging to two of 1 corps refused to march % to some mistake har, at the ex- f service. Lord at they had matter, sim- them. The men of this e done good work in ir term the groua - unfounded to ther drafts alry or that guns once. A were used against DARMSTADT IS DIVIDED. President of Second Chamber Defeats a Motion to Aid the Boers. STADT, Dec. 21.—By the Presi- = g of his vote the second day defeated a motion to in- the representatives in the to propose the assembly Foreign Affairs Committee over regulars __ | with the object of initlating a spat save: TRe | proposal of arbitration between Great Britain and the Transvaal votes were cast each way. All the anti- Semites and Social Democrats favored the motion. The representatives of the Government left the House before the de- bate on the moti: Twenty-two DETECTIVES | | | | Was Held Prisoner and Surrounding MAHA, Dec. 21.—The result of twenty-four hours’ work on the part of the police of the city and half a hundred detectives has brought to light the location of the house in which Edward Cudahy Jr. was held a prisoner for nearly two days, and from which he was returned to his home in the city ata late hour Wednesday night. The house is located four miles from city and in a place of easy access,‘but so situated as to allow the kidnapers ample opportunity to lay and ecarry out their plans without molestation from inquiring neighbors. In easy communication with rail and wagon roads leading in and out of Omaha and South Omaha, and on a high knoll where sentries could give im- | mediate alarm in case of necessity, the one and a half story shack had been ad- mirably chosen by the bandits. No doubt exists in the minds of the police as to the identity of the place. Young Cudahy him- self was taken to the house and identi- fled many features whi(-l? he had recog- | nized while a prisoner. The testimony of the neighbors also is of a nature that leads every one to believe they have found the retreat of the ab- ductors. Evidences show that they made a hurried departure when their night's work was completed. | Pat.Crowe, Are Suspected of the Crime. ——d s wn says: start the It is stated this morning that Pat Crowe, | a0y ERUGER STILL HAS HOPE. | well known to the local police circles, is | -’l" THE OMAHA KIDNAPERS First Discovery of Importance Is the Loca- tion of the House Where Young Cudahy for Twenty-Four Hours Country, Including | the letter the following advertisement was | in & local paper: “Lost—Reward of $ for the return: of a letter addressed to Willlam Stewart, Chicago. Address letter to John Smith, Milwaukee, general delivery.” | ‘The Journal also received a letter signed “Jack,” in which the writer says he is the | person who lost the letter in the stree:- | car and the one who advertised for it. He says he has been exdelled from a des- perate gang of rohbers and kidnape:s, who are working in different parts of the | country, and t he has determined to | inform against them. Then he tells of a | plan which had been arranged to rob the Schandien Milyaukee residence, abduct the lttle girl and hod her for ransom. Bestdes the Schandiens he says numerons other prominent “people, including Major | Rose, Captaig Pabst and Charles Uthlin, | | are marked for visits from the gang. | When the Jdetteh was shown to Police Inspecter Recter he exiwessed the opin- | fon that both the advertisement and the | letter were written bv a lunatle or Ly | some boy who had been reading dime | novels and wanted notoriety. | CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The finding of this | letter rather iIndicated that there might | be some truth in the theory that there is | an organized band of kidnapers at work | | throughout the country,” sald Chief of | Detectives Colleran t5-day when shown the Milwaukee story concerning the find- | PRICE FIVE' CENTS. BATTLE OF WORDS BEGINS IN VON SCHROEDER’S SUIT Attorney for the Baron Exhégusts His Invectives in Abuse of the Men Who Testified Against His Aristocratic Client and Exposed Immoralities of the Latter’s Life. Defense Replies That the Plaintiff Had Five Months in Which to Impeach the Witnesses and Was Unable to Do So Even With Wealth, Intimidation and Fraud. did not even interview Warfleld about his published letter in the B: did not care whether Wa author of the letter or care whether Wi or bis statement any to them, was true to assail arain and to justify sault on the following m They did not er was true he ever made They proceeded their as- <. They had TiDaE MAGURE OFFERS “Tne CALL ARTCLE T Tae JuRy Stead Tells of Conditions That Con- front Britons in South Africa. LONDON 2.—Wi Stead has just at Barberton, Dec t hand er and his coun- the present situation and Mr. the Associated Press: nothing is decided about America at present. President as abandoned all hope of pport of the governments of the lized world in his demand for arbitra Until the government refuses absoiutely to say a word in sup- port of the principles which they solemnly laid down at The Hague conference Mr. Kruger will not partake in popuiar dem- onstrations. It is recognmized that if he cared to G0 so he could shake the con- tinent. The popular enthusiasm for him is unparalleled since Garibaldi's visit to Lond: but until diplomatic mission exhausted an appeal to the peoples be taken into Kruger is emphatic future pects securing t table ndon,” effect of Cape range River and that ving = not even DEWET'S GALLANT DASH. b - Escape From British One of the he asks is at The Hague to use their t settlement of disputes by means of mediation and ar- should make an united effort to civilized world to Boldest Deeds in the War. reat Bri h Mr war in South Kruger said, ‘are Africa like burning homes, de- tting trees, d tating ng famine. They are un- Dewet, but they are mak- rs of women and children, who this waging s. They are g farm fields and cre e Stead has written } the man whom the police suspect of being! Ing of the letter relating to the alleged the leader of the gang who abducted | Plans for the kidnaping of several chil- young Cudahy. Officers in citizens’ cloth- | dren of wealthy people. | ing are looking for Crowe to-day, but so | “The Milwaukee authorities, however. far he has not been arrested. | have not communicated with us in regard The police detectives who are working | ' this letter, but if (hey do so the Chi- on the matter are inclined to believe that | Caso police will ‘certainly (Investigate men not well acquainted with the city and | Promptly and make any arrests that may | surrounding country would not have been | &Ppear justifiable.” able to manage the affair as it was car-] OMAHA, Dec. 2L.—The Cudahys think ried on. For this reason they are search- there is no connection between the garg ing for several local men who are known | that abducted their son and the Milwau- to bear a bad reputation | kee gang. but they are wiring inquiries An extra force of Pinkertons arrived | and will be able to say more definitely this morning and were put to work on the | later. case. The only clew they have to worlk | on at present is a copy of the letter thrown on Mr. Cudahy’s lawn, naming the | hour that the boy would be returned. The | original copy was returned with lhei money, this being one of the considera- | aciuly o AN IOWA BOY STOLEN. Hands of Kidnapers. FORT DODGE, Iowa, Dec. 2L.—The | tions demanded by the desperadoes. Mr. Cudahy this morning confirmed the offer of a reward of $25,000 for the arrest of the abductors. Young Edward to-day stated that the letter demanding a ransom was hurled into the yard by his abductors before they left the neighborhood of his home. That was Tuesday, December 18 This has given rise to some curious speculation, for the copy of the letter was dated December 3—that Is to say, the following day. It was Wednesday morning that the letter was found In the front yard. If the ban- dits wrote the letter and threw it into the yard Tuesday night they dated it ahead. The letter was unsigned and the state- | ment made shortly after its discovery that it was signed “Jack” was an error. MANY CBI;DBEN IN DANGER - Belief That There Is an Organized Band of Kidnapers. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 21.—The sen- sational disappearance and return of voung Edward Cudahy of Omaha is somewhat strangely ccincident with the ted with ordinary decency, = of women have been confined in near Port Elizabeth, with and several of them are | to become methers.’ avers th the provisions convention and the laws of war are trampled under es of this convention have any on the subject. The man on this moment is mot Mr. but President Steyn. He, De- and Dewet are masters of the situ- a better disciplined and force than which followed r (flag) at the outbreak of the have pienty of ammunition and replenish their stores continually from British convoys. They have taken enough Lee-Metford rifies to arm all the burghers now in the field.” effe ¥ s war. They PR Haas- e commando v galloped among e sing th ends of their PRESIDENT TO VISIT WASHINGTON CITIES revol- and the butt rifles great effe: incident & British am WASHINGTON ley expects tc £ tho fight e e Dec. 21.—President Mc- fon wagon Boers, the g gallop the first of next May for a visit to the Pacific Coast, reaching San Franeisco in »n for the launching of the battleship May 15. He will make numercus stops at ies en route, including New Orleans and Los Angeles. leaving San Francisco he will visit or Washington and other Western Sta Senator Foster and Representa- tive Jones of Washington to-day invited the President to visit a number of cities and towns in that State. They assured ng their revolver FRENCH ROUTS THE BOERS. ght in Which the British Claim to Have Killed Fifty of Enemy. TOWN, Dec mander of the ne hgs been gon, ndal rs with fo e is sixteen miles northwe The fight took place British had fourteen the Boers fled in disorder, 1 fifty killed. ho invaded Cape- Col cases packhorses in addition they rode. All were in the pink v commandeered all pos- stores at Venterstadt. UBLE AMONG COLONIALS. Tiitish Authorities Deny That ‘nun' Was a Mutiny. NDON, Dec. 22.—As the outcome of people were looking forward to his trip. The President promised to go to Tacoma, Seattle. North Yakima, Spokane and in- termediate points. WILL LEAD UPRISING AGAINST THE TURKS LONDON, Dec. 2.—General Osman Pasha, who led the Kurd uprising in 1573, | told a representative of the Daily Mail yesterday that he would leave London to- day to head another uprising to free Kurdistan from Turkish rule. 1 hope for Ebglisk sympathy,” he said, “if not for material support in the strug- 4 - ~f Parliament and since reitérated | inated by Russia, have compelled the ts to know whether the ! ave Washington about | him of the deep pleasure with which their | finding of a letter in a Milwaukee street- car a few days ago. The letter was ad- dressed to William Stewart, Chicago, and | told of a plan to rob several residences of wealthy citizens in Milwaukee and to ab- duct a little girl. with a lead pencil and was signed *Jack. | The letter was turned over to the po- | lice, who looked upon it as the work of a lunatic. The day following the finding of ® = g 'SECURES DIVORCE FROM | | | | 1 ham Lincoln’s | MT. PLEASANT. Iowa. Dec. 2l.—Jesste T. Beckwith, granddaughter of the mar- tyred President and daughter of Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, is no longer the wife of Warren Beckwith, the ex-baseball player of this city, according to a state- ment made to-day before the Probate ! Court here in the hearing of the case of James C. Whitford vs. Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln. | The sensational courtship, elopement | ana marriage of Miss Jessie Lincoin witl | Beckwith furnished soclety with plenty of gossip in 1897. Beckwith at that time | was playing right halfback on the Iowa | Wesleyan football team, and it was while | Miss Jessie was visiting at the home of | ber granafather, Senator Harlan, here.| | that they became acquainted. Love foi- | lowed and Mr. Lincoln tried to break npl | the courtship without success. | Later efforts were made to place Beck- | with in a responsible position with the | Pullman Company in Chicaso, of which Mr. Lincoln is president. but the bali- | piayer was true to his profession. ! Then came a quarrel and separation, ments made during the recent ses- | gle against the despotic Turks, who, dm- | and the young wife returned to her par- ental roof. Beckwith later enlisted as a to the effect that scme of the colonial | brave, warlike Kurds to act the part of | private with Company F, Fiftieth Iowa troope have refused to fight again, the | assassins toward their brother Arme- Wear Office late last evening issued the | nians.” 2 Volunteers, and was sent to Jacksonville, Florida. While in camp Beckwith re- The letter was written ! BALL-PLAYER BECKWITH |Sequel to the Romantic Elopement of Abra- nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louls | Tonhose of Judd, a small town about ten | | miles east of here, was kidnaped on Tues- ! day and has not been heard of since. The | | father has hired detectives, and it Is ex- | pected that in the next few days there | will come startling developments. The | father heard this afternoon that the boy | ! was last seen In the company of two men. | | 1t 1s expected that a proposition will be | made in a few days as to the matter of | [ ratsom. Mr. Tonhose is one of the large | | 1ana owners of this country. The mother | is now said to be in a very dangerous con- | ditlon owing to the shock. The culprits | who perpetrated the deed ar supposed to | be two men who were at the house on TPuesday afternoon and represented them- | selves as book agents. The police are at | work on the case. It is sald that the two men who are suspected of having Kkid- | naped the ‘boy were never seen in this | community before. The father has offered {a reward of $500 for the return of the boy, 1or $1000 for the apprehension of the Kkid- | napers. Finances of Chosen Friends. | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 2L.—Receiv- { er Clark of the Chosen Friends says cred- | itors have little prospect of realizing much | if anything from their claims. The ut- | most that the creditors can hope for is the realization of 10 cents on the dollar. | With liabilities of $500,000, the order will | be able only with the greatest difficulty | to raise $50,000 to adjust the alaims of the l creditors. Granddaughter. | ceived news of the birth of a daughter. | Although he obtained a furlough no reconciliation with the wife followed. He | was honorably discharged when the regi- ment returned to Des Molnes. In the mean time, it now develops, Mrs. Beckwith applied for a divorce, which was granted. There Is no record of the case in the courts here. Beckwith, wha lives at Creston and is employed as a brakeman on the Burlington road, says the divorce was granted on the grounds of desertion and non-suppert. The facts developed here when the case of Whitford vs. Lincoln was called in the Probate Court, anfl it was stated that | tornia. ma mmx BryoyHe A ToRReTye crosw THS or e waTcriroL BIES auamE NLESS some untoward inciden: happens Baron J. H. von Schroeder will know to-night the commercial value of his reputa- tion. It is expected that the ar- guments in the trial will be co cluded this afternoon and that | the case will be given to the jury., Throughout the morning session yester- day and far into the afternoon James G. Maguire argued for the plaintiff and then James W. Cochrane i=piled for The Cail. The case has Teache@ (gt stage therefore in a judiclal proceeding where comment or critictam would be unjust and certain- | 5 for the plaintiff at the begf: Iy indeltcate. The Call hias submitted its | x S RS o the mornin A testimony to prove that Baron von | 8 sessloni of the'court. He spoke {in part as follows: Schroeder is morally 1 menace to SocietY. | .rp. action now belng tried is one of a dangerous man whose influence is to be | the: 1w = nvelves | cob- (oo kg : Saig ost serfous character. feared,'a being Who has respect or €on- | g,mething more than mefe property rights | sideration neither for men’s honor nor ..., are commonly submitted to juries | woman’s virtue. The Call has submitted | 1, yr15) courts in civil cases; it involves | the evidence which it Delleves has Justi- | 3 quection as serious as Is ever submit- fed its expose of such a man. To-day the | yoq to courts and juries in criminal cases, value of this testimony will be deter-| .y serious as murder, for the assassina- mined by the jury and the position of | yion of character by libel is as terrible a such a mar will be established In Cali- | orime as murder itself, and as destructive | to the man who is made the victim of it. The argvment presented vesterday for | +On the 24th day of October, 159, the Baron von Schroeder by Attorney Ma- plaintiff, a man of good reputation and & guire was a long one, but it had a central, | Standing, retired at peace with the world, dominant thought—abuse of every wit 2nd on the following morning read these lires branding him to the whole State and ness presented by The Call to prove that 2o i - hals o the country and to the world as a scoun- Baron von Schroeder has reached such | gr.;; , plow delivered to him without a limit of immorality and depravity that | warning, a blow delivered to him by a he has become an enemy to society and | man whom he had never harmed nor his unmasking is a duty solemnly im- | wronged, a blow delivered to him either posed upon a public journal. As Attorney | for the maliclous purpose of destroying } argue for the defense this morning and | then Attorney Maguire will close. Sl MAGUIRE OPENS THE ARGUMENT Denounces Witnesses Produced by the Defendant as Perjurers. James G. Maguire opened the argument | ! ‘IN SACRED HONOR MAN MUST PROTECT A wWorian 3 Named JW CocHrane, IN IS SPEECH Beroes THE Jumye | | | I +* ' | CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDES OF ATTORNEYS, WHO CON- SUMED A DAY ARGUING. + » when they published that éditortal 5°h of October, even the meagre and contemptible excuse which they now give for pursuing tie plaintiff, namely, that Warfleld had not willingly sign>d the letter which was pubiished in the Bul- letin. They did not know whether he had or not and they did not care, but tasy had seen and had read the letter. That let- ter brands General Warfleld .as a pok troon, a coward, and a liar {f he made the statement to Leake that Leake says he made on the night of October 4. Motive Not Traceable. “Why, then, since they say that they Maguire viewed this serious controversy | the reputable citizen who supplied the | original information of Von Schroeder's ! debaucheries and attacks upon Innocent | women is “a poltroon, a coward and a | liar.” The men who swore to the facts of de- | him or for the base purpose of making a | have no personal knowledge of any of sensation and selling a libelous newspa- | these facts, since they say that they have per. A:blow such as that coming without | not had and have never had any feeling warning, coming from a man who had | of ill will against this plaintiff, why have never avowed enmity, coming as stealth- | fly as the blow of an assassin delivered | by a footpad from the back in the dark, | they not accepted the situation and re- tracted the libel? Because it is not true that they are not moved by motives of basing vice, gross licentiousness and wild | was the startling sepsation received by | malice. revelries of the Baron are ndering | walters, hobo witnesses, perjured, pur- chased tools.” The attormey did not know the force of moderation. Every man who had related what he saw of the shame and scandal of Baron von Schroe- der’s life is a scoundrel, a liar, a roust- about, &n unscrupulous rascal whose face should be his card of admissien to a penitentiary. Attorney Maguire made no exception. His abuse was sweeping. No honesty, no truth, no -decency could emanate from any one who told what he knew of the horrifying practices of Von Schroeder and believed in the telling that he was-performing a public service. Accepting every advantage of his posi- tion Attorney Maguire asked the jury to take his unsworr lawyer's word as better thar. the pledged testimony of many wit- resses. Magulrc went even so far as to attribute the motive of the expose of the Baron von Schroeder ta business rivairy, | an absurdity that probably every ome in the courtroom except one saw at once. The attorney dwelt with sneering empha- sis upon his assertion that the men whose testimony is registered against his aris- toeratic client are laborers, stable boys | and waiters. For three hcurs and a half Attorney Maguire talked In this vein and theff At- torney Cochrane replied. Ha attacked at the plaintiff upon that morning. | “He has appealed to the law for vindi- | cation, baving faith in God and faith in | man and faith in the reign of justice, a | bellef in the justice of courts and the fair- | ness and honesty of juries. He has ap- pealed to the law instead of appealing to the personal violence which it is too often sald is the only remedy for such libels. He has placed his case In the hands of the court and of the jury, and he asks for | Justice at your hands to-day. 1 “Is the libel true? ‘Scandal's blight on the Hotel Rafael’ That is the headline, and below it he accuses the Baron von Schroeder of having destroyed the hotel as’ a reputable resort. What scandal has he shown attached to the hote]? Whoever heard the breath of scandal connected with the hotel until the day the defendant | publised this libelous article of nnd.wn- ! cerning the plaintiff? Who? Why, some | walters in the clubhouse had heard of it. | Nobody else. Nobody else, according to | their own showing made in court. Absence of Good Faith Charged. | *“On the morning after the publication of the letter from General Warfield, on the morning after that letter had been read by Mr. Leake, on the morning after that | letter and the libelous article had been read by Mr. Spreckels, for according to his own testimony he returned from Sa- the following morning they published the I attention whén and which I read at of Scan- H = i ; i i 1 a fellow their ieg “What is the motive I do not know. Wa have been unable to trace the motive: the motive is just as dark, just as obscure to-day as would be the motive of an un- known assassin who might come behind the plaintiff and strike him on the back of the head and kill him, showing that | his motive was not robbery by not going through the pockets of the dead man. “We do mot know what motive moved him. It was either a motive of malice against the man himself, it was some sentiment of hostility of the cause of which the plaintiff is unaware, or it was that general malice against mankind which is said in the criminal law to spring from an abandoned and maligned heart ready to pare down any man against whom any person may give a pre- text for libel. “The defendant is as gentle as a coolng dove when he comes upon the stand, and, in the face of the procf of his deliberate assassination of the plaintiff's character and his contemptible failure to prove any- thing substantial in the article published, | he tells you that Be was perfectly free | from malice; a man of stainless héart who weuld not ruin another man under apy circumstances. That is a shield from the consequences of such outrages against his fellow man as the one committed here. “A newspaper, in showing good faith in the publication of an attack upon the pri- vate Character of a person, must show that it has made reasonable investigation and has tried to verify the story. What investigation was made in this matter? They had thiee weeks to investigate it What 4id they? Nothing They kept it quiet. Perking remained Inactive and quiet. Leake .emained quiet. Perhaps they wanted a “scoop.” and would rather take chances upon the falsity of War- fleld’s staiement than to run the risk of baving another newspaper get the same g-&lmthmawmfllo( the defendant. He was not acting in good faith. whether the article was true or not: he has tried to prove circumstamees that neitter Warfleld nor Mrs. Warsleld ever wentioned to him. What does Be rely upon here more than upon anything eise