The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1901, Page 1

Tall, VOLUME LXXXIX—-NO. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. COOPER BACK FROM OGDEN WITH PROOF OF HIS GUILT IN DOCUMENTS AND CHECKS — I Q. - QO S rger Who Married Norine Schneider of Crockett NVas Caught on His Way East Now Awaits, in the Prison, Trial for His Duplicity and Scheming "k HARRY WESTWOOD COOPER T BEFORE AND AFTER HIS LATEST ESCAPADE =3 the executor of the late Mrs, Eliza Adelaide Chadwick aforedald. These are ther: est Moore C) to be and appear in your own proper person before Clarence W. Ashford, her Britannic Majesty’s attacher at adwick, the Consulate in the city of San Francisco, U: £. A., not later than the first day of March, A. D, 190 t ensuing, and then and there re- celve from him the sum of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000). The balance of your share in the aforesald estate will be paid to your credit at the final distribution, to wit, the second day of March, 1902. At your peril fall not. ‘‘God save the King.” Given under my hand and the seal of this Honorable Court at Somerset House, London, E. C., this 20th day of January, A. D, 190L (Seal) JAMES HARRINGTON, Probate Judge. Check for Norine. The prolific checkbook was also found, e FOoOrRGED TAKING OFF THE "OREG&ON 00D COOPER. ROM OGD! T F( WITH MA IN TRONS WITHOUT HIS ¥ HIM. UND ¢ ALIASES, AFTER A HONEYMOON TRIP LASTING FIVE BRIDE. TELLTALE CHECKS AND WESTWOO when he entered s office. e his com- by the chief of detect- tectives who knew some- 1= To the salutations of P e resy urteo , and than! when he removed the the sed on Hedgepeth s train yobber. Cooper SosiG n, but his com- si ent. were brought f two Cooper Is G St small h t s latd confine- to curb his On his re- Byram of himself. 10 before? question prey led to that was handed to t as fo Missive. r after reading of your Norine Schacider. Er- | barrister, bas betwee: us—how, oply a few a few de the same avowals of But, thank God! I have cowardly villain. Oh, how could u ever once think of me or the n you were inflicting? \Er- my folks of the villain v hopes they would follow 4 and have vengeance for | no; I will be brave r folks' sake. But t that you do not deserve it, remember, 1 But aiways follow and humil; if 1 was t te love for you; for, u now as T Ic that ved you once. m will ur picture and the tokens of 1 on me I have burned, to nerald ring you gave me I 50 1 will have no re- As mine is only one broken 1t will be no task rt to forget the past. From one who | forget but never forgive. Lora curses you You hestow The o the bay, st Denies Knowledge of Writer. After ca ing it over twice Cooper knowledge of the | writer, de having ever been fn Val- | lejo or having assoclatior with any one there n he and Captain Sey- mour had a heart to heart talk, in whicn Cooper admitted but little, although all | kinds of documentary evidence had been | found on him. | Perhaps one of the most Interesting doc- | uments was an engrossed parchment pur- porting to have been :ssued from the Pro- bate Court of London. It was on this doe- | ument that Cooper laié out the plan which | bas lald him in jail. This paper, accord- | ing to the dates, was ¢rawn before Queon | Victorla had been bured and reads, ac- | any cording to Cooper’s ruics of spelling and construction of English, as follows: AR High Court of Chancery In its probate risdiction to Ernest Moore Chadwich, M. D.. M., of Crockett, Cal, U. §. A., and h these presents shall come— | it appears as a matter of 1 honorable court that Eliza Ade- e Chedwick, widow, deceased, of Stockwell | , I. C., executed an in- g, to wit, her last will and thing to you the sum of | housand pounds sterling, in good | 4 lawful coln of Great Britain, and whereas, | on has been made this day that | ler and decree that the eaid sum usand pounds sterling <£n,‘1 ou, the sald Ernest Moore | THEREFORE TAKE NOTICE That the sum of twenty-thousand pounds ster- l ling (£20,000) will be placed to your credit | thin sixty days from the-date hereof, as peri your cable Instructions to Edward P. Jayden, | of Gay's bullding, Strand, Londen, | Le Count Bros,, D] nest, T can hardly believe it is g0, after all that | with the telltale stubs showing his liber- i:\HV)'. But there was one check bigger than | all the rest that told how, perhaps, the love of Norine Pearl Schneider was won. | It was not detached, and across its face | the words and figures “twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)" stood out in bold relief. This check represented thé wedding por- | tion which Cooper claims the mother of Norine demanded before she would give her consent to their union. On the stubs from which the checks had been torn were shown to whom the paper had been given. These read as follows: Self .. $50 00 Andrews, jewelry.. 250 00 Raphael Weil & Co 738 50 Furniture ........ 1,082 00 Sanborn, Vall & Co. 200 00 Fred J. Jordan. 1510 00 Furniture 25 00 Kohler & Chase, onel Andrews, 90 2,230 0 P! . Jewelry. Norine ..... 20,000 60 Insurance papers 150 00 Erler 10 00 Paul 25 00 W. C. Yates part payment practice 1,000 00 Onelli 435 Total ..... B RLELTITTTTTPOIN $28,084 00 Cooper's baggage was prolific In evi- dence. A hand book on Masonry, many | telegrams and his bankbook were cap- tured. One telegram showed that on Feb- ruary 16 he telegraphed as follows from San Francisco: ’ Ernest Moore Chadwick, M. D., M. 8., Crock- Received advice per cable this day. Ten thousand dollars will arrive the 25th inat.; Donohue Bank. CLARENCE W. ASHFORD, British Attache. The Forged Dispatch. This was followed on February 23 with the dispatch purporting to come from the mother as follows: Miss Nora Schnelder: Do what Ernest tells you, at once. MARIA SCHNEIDER. The bankbook on the :Donohue-Kelly Bank contains but two entrifes. One is dated February 27, and shows that a de- posit of 827,970 was made on that date, al- | though the figures 27" are in a different handwriting and different colored ink from that in which the figures “970" were written. On February 23 appears an en- try purporting to show that $1700 was de- posited. A number of checks drawn on the Bank of New Zealand and an unused certificate of the “Monte Grande Coffee and Commercial Company,” printed by were also found. For a systematic course of forgery Cooper had apparently laid out an elaborate plan. Cooper Is Beoked. When taken to the City Prison to be charged Cooper recognized Corporal “Jack” Parrotte, calllng him by that Continued on Page Fourteen. ore to command you, the said | WAR CLOUDS ACAIN HOVER OVER DRENT Americaand England Secretly Plan o Thwart Russia. Other Powers Are Asked to Check the Land Grab in China. —_—— Significant Grouping of Interested Nations in the Serious Crisis Regarding Manchuria. ——— LONDON, March 9.—A crisls has arisen in Far Eastern affairs, which, in the opin- fon of the British Government, is graver almost than the troubles which originally turned the eves of the world toward the Orient. In this crisis secret negotiations are going on between the United States and Great Britain with a view to thwart- ing what both Governments appear to consider a determined attempt on the part of Russia to plant herself permanently in one of the richest tracts of the Chinese empire. | The conference held Wednesday be- | tween United States Embassador Choate | and Lord Lansdowne, the Foreign Secre- | tary, had nothing to do with the Nicara- guan canal. To quote from a British offi- | cial, “the Nicaraguan canal controversy is a minor matter compared with the pres- ent situation.” Asked to Take Joint Action. What Choate did was to recelve from | Lord Lansdowne an important message, | declaring that Great Britain was not sat- | | 1sfied with Rus desclaration regarding | | Manchuria as delivered to Sir Charles | Stewart Scott, British Emb: | Petersburg, by Count Lamsdort, and ask- | | ing the United States If it was pre-| | pared to take joint actlon of such a de- cisive nature that Russia would have nc alterative but to recede from her position. Almost simultaneously, It is understood, the United States Government instructed the various Embassadors to take similar steps. 7 * The answer of Secretery Hay has ap- parently not yet been received in London, although the fact that almost concurrent | instructions were issued from Washing- ton is taken here to be a self guarantce that Russia’s action in Manchuria will not be tolerated by the United Statea. | Japan is relied upon to take a line in har- mony with the United States and Grea! | Britain. Germany, In spite of the Anglo German conipact, is regarded as rather doubtful, owing to Emperor Willlam's friendship for the Czar. France, of course, will side with her ally. Now Considered Very Grave. The significance of the present phase | can only be appreciated by those cogni- zant of the lethargic attitude of the British Government hitherto regarding | Russian action in China. Within the las: | | tew days all this has changed. What a week or two ago was pronounced only in line with Russia's usual policy is now termed “a grave and serious state of af- fairs.” Lord Lansdowne Is using every effort to bring the powers into line in order to present to Russia such a menacing front | that, without any ambiguity regarding temporary or other occupation, she may give up all designs upon Manchuria. | What prompts the Dritish Foreign Of- fice to take such an a.armist view of cir- cumstances usually looked upon as fatal- istic sequences is the apprehension that Russia, having held her own In spite of the protest of the Ministers of the pow- ers to the Chinese G- rnment and hav- ing put herself on recora in the reply to Sir Charles Scott as determined on at least a temporary occupation of Man- churia, will refuse to back down. That she must do so Lord Lansdowne considers vital both for the futurs of China and for the continued existence of the concert of the powers. Russia’s Reply Unsatisfactory. Count Lamsdorf’s repiy to Sir Charles Scott is considered quite unsatisfactory. “If such excuses are accepted by the powers.” sald a British offictal last even- ing, *“there will be nothing to prevent tte immediate partition of China, for with al- most exactly the same verblage any Eu- ropean power could justify the occupation of other provinces.” Upon the degrees of support afforded the movement by Germany and Japan de pends the result of what is understood to be the almost synchrcnous action of ‘Washington and London The whole affair is guarded with the greatest secrecy, and it was not apparently without motive that a special dispatch was allowed to gc from London erroneously announcing that the negotiations going on between Choate | and Lansdowne related to the Nicaragua affair. A feeling pervades inner circles here that if Count Lamsdorf's explanation is accepted by the powers Russia will be accorded a free hand to take -all she pleases and the door will be opened to any other power aggressive enough to step in and annex Chinese provin-es under the pretext of temporary sccupation. DENIED BY COUNT CASSINT, Embassador Declares Russia Will Not Seize Manchuria. WASHINGTON, March 8.—Count Cas-| sini, the Russian Embassador, cannot understand the report that Russia has ulterior deslgns in Manchuria. In an in- terview he said: ““There ought to be no doubt concern- | anything ever before launched. SIR THOMAS' CUP CHALLENGER NEARS COMPLETION AND WILL BE . READY TO LAUNCH NEXT MONTH Lady Roberts Will Probably Christen Yacht Shamrock II, Which Lipton Believes Will Capture the America’s Trophy — Designer Watson Makes Discoveries < LASGOW, March 8—The Sham- rock II is advancing so rapidly that her launching is proviston- ally fixed for April 20. Her build- ers are confident she will be able to take to the water then. The yacht s already plated to the waterline on bo'h sides and the fitting of the plates of the top sides and deck Is proceeding. It Is expected that Lady Roberts will christen the cup challenger. Designer Watson sa “If nothing un- expected happens we shall have plenty of time for refitting on the other side. Should speclal difficulties arise there will then be time for reconsideration of the dates. I am quite confident that whether we keep to the original dates or not we shall be given time to get the vessel ready. It will be, of course, our endeavor to keep to the time originally fixed, and I do not expect any trouble in so doing.” Sir Thomas Lipton says that Design>- Watson has made discoveries that would have an important effect In the futurs building of yachts on both sides of the Atlantic. He added that the shape of the H SISO S - LADY ROBERTS, WIFE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE BRITISH ARMY, WHO, IT IS EXPECTED, WILL CHRISTEN THE CUP CHALLENGER SHAMROCK II, WHICH IS BEING PREPARED FOR LAUNCH- ING ON THE 20TH OF NEXT MONTH. o Shamrock’s hull was totally different from This it beam, is believed refers to her great which is well forward. Watson is sanguine and Sir Thomas is absolutely confident that the yacht will — prove the victor in the coming races. Both Shamrocks will take part in the pre- ltminary races on the Clyde. e e e e e i S R Y Y ing the position of Russia in Chinese affairs. Her attitude is the same to-day as it has been since August 2 last, when she declared that ‘As soon as lasting order shall have been established in Manchuria and indispensable measures taken for the protection of railway construction, which, according to formal agreement, China has assured, Russia will not fail to recall her troops from these territories of the neighboring empire, provided that the action of other powers does not place any obstacle in the way of such measure.’ “Our raflway interests In Manchuria are very valuable and highly important, not only to our own trade, but to the trade of America and other nations, and as Count Lamsdorff, our - Minister for Forelgn Affairs, has sald, it is necessary for the Russian military authorities to arrange with the Chinese, when reinstat- ing them in authority, a modus vivend! to prevent recurrence of disturbances near the Russian frontier and Insure protec- tion of the railway to Port Arthur. “Russia’s policy has shown that she does not contemplate seizing Manchuria. ‘Had she desired its acquisition, a pretext cculd have been found in the invasion of her territory by the Chinese. The best proof that she has no ulterior designs is shown by her refusal to take advantage of this pretext and her cordial co-opera- tion with the United States and other na- tions to restore peace and order through- out the Chinese empire. . —— STAND TAKEN BY AMERICA. Has Warned China Against Private Financial Obligations. WASHINGTON, March 8.—Not only has the United States cndeavored to prevent any power from entering into a private arrangement with China contemplating the acquisition of territory, but it has warned the Celestial Government of the danger of incurring private financial ob gations. This warning is contained in a note of February 19, which is one of the important documents issued by the United States. The authorities say that the responses to this note have been satistactory, all the powers agreeing to the principles therein set forth. This note has caused much discussion in Buropean and Eastern chancellories and its meaning has been the subject of keen speculation. It has been interpreted by some as directed against Russia because of her continued occupation of Manchuria, and, of course, the military authorities in negotiating a modus vivend! with the Chinese author- ities for the protection of the Russian frontier and rallway. Some, however, argued that it was aimed at Germany, because of the purpise of the Berlin Gov- ernment to retain troops at Chill. There is high authority for the state- ment that Secretary Hay transmitted the views of the President to China, not be- cause of suspicion of the motives of any power, but because the President thought it desirable to warn China against private arrangements of any kind and to obtamn an expression of views of powers In this matter. Count Lamsdorfl’s statement to the British Embassador in St. Petersburg is in line with representations made to the United States by Russia in answer to Secretary Hay's latest note. eadin il WILL STOP EXPEDITIONS. French Government So Informs Count von Waldersee. PEKING, March 8.—The French have unofficially notified Count von Waldersee that they will send no more expeditions into the country unless circumstances ab- solutely compel, and they will also with- draw their outposts beyond Paotingfu. Rockhill, at the meeting of the Minis- ters of the powers to-morrow, will pro- pose that meetings be held hereafter dally in order to carry the business through. Li Hung Chang says that the return of the temples of heaven and agriculture to the Chinese is absolutely necessary be- fore the dignity of the court will permit it to come back to Pekin, bty ot ACTIVITY OF JAPANESE. Taking Steps to Offset Russia’s Ac- tion in Manchuria. LONDON, March 9.—“There is much activity in Japanese naval, military and political circles regarding Russia's action in Manchuria,” says a dispatch to the Daily Malfl from Kobe, dated March 8. “It is reported that 600 Russian marines with ten guns have landed at Masanpo, Korea.” CPPOSED BY THE EMPEROR. Instructs Li to Refer Russia to Other Powers. LONDON, March 9.—“Emperor Kwang Su opposes the Russo-Chinese agreement as to Manchuria,” says the Peking cor-' respondent of the Dally Express, “and has._ instructed Li Hung Chang to refer Russia to the other powers.” Liu Kun Yi, the viceroy of Nankin, has appealed to Great Britain, Japan and the United States, according to the Shanghat correspondent of the Daily Express, to assist China to resist Russia's designs on Manechuria. — EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON IS A VERY SICK MAN Troubled With Grip and Neuralgia and a Fear That Pneumonia Will Develop. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March. 8—Ex- President Harrison is a very sick man 4nd his closest friends are alarmed. His condition is more serious than is generally believed. However, Dr. Jameson sald to-night that there was no immediate danger, and, in fact, he was not at all alarmed as to the outcome. General Harrison is troubled with acom- plication of the grip and neuralgia and there iz some fear that this wil devglop into pneumonia. The disease In 1t 1s not necessarily of an alarming character, but when the age of (General Harrison is taken into consideration, with the diminu- tion of his recuperative powers, his pres- ent {liness s being viewed with much anx- fety. Mr. Harrison suffered much pain yester- day. The large muscles of the chest ars affected and the patient was confined to his bed. bt CASHES STOLEN BONDS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Young Clerk Who Plundered an Eliz- abethport Bank Last August Is Traced to Los Angeles. NEW YORK, March 8.—William Serfber, the young bank clerk who plundered the Elizabethport Bank last August of $109,000, has been traced to Los Angeles, Cal.. where he cashed three United States 4 per cent bonds, which were part of his plun- der. The bonds were of the issue of 18065 and were for $1000 each. They had been placed in the bank for safe keeping by the administrators of the estate of the late Peter F. Wickoff of Elizabeth. The bank is now being sued for the value of these honds. Except that he cashed the bonds in Los Angeles nothing further has been learned af the missing clerk,