The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1901, Page 1

A VOLUME LXXXIX—NO, 113. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS, BULLETS AIMED AT MAY BUCKLEY MISS THE CALIFORNIA ACTRESS AND STRIKE TWO THEATRICAL MEN Morphine and Mistaken Identity Cause an Ex-Student to Fire Five Shots in a Crowded New York Resort—A. W. Dingwall and John D. Leffingwell Are Wounded 0 e -+ i 3 hospital to-night sald his condition was not serious and that he would’be out in a few days. After Moulton had been locked up De- tective Traynor sa.d that he had been looking for Moulton since February §. Rio de J“"”""d‘""t ‘“:h“"f“‘ :f:: | On that date, he sald, Moulton calied ;":m;g: di::“y‘:;“ma;":: P upon Dr. James E. Newcomb of this clty | yaing 0, F. Bolles and John K. Bulger, HE first official decision fixing re- sponsibility for the wreck of the & | %04 had hit cpeh. & S O $0. DI |11 ited States Inspectors of Hulls and | Newcomb, Detective Traynor sald, has|p, .y 1his decision places the blame recelved a mumber of letters from Chi- | polHh T U8 SECTTR B IR aptain cago, Sing Sing, Elmira, Boston and Buf- falo saying that Moulton had engaged in swindling operations in the cities named, | where he had secured sums ranging from | 850 to $175. The detective said jhe would arrest Moulton on these charkes if he | should free himself cf his present trouble. | »Il is said that Moulton had supported ‘Ward and Pilot Jordan. The pilot, being a State officer, is not under the jurisdiction of the United States inspectors, and they have no power to punish him. The State Board of Pilot Commissioners, that. has the power, 18 at present inquiring into his culpability or innocence. The inspectors blame the chief engineer for inattention to his duty and revoke his | license as chief engineer. He had ten white men in his charge, consisting of three engineers, three water tenders, | three oilers and a storekeeper, and the inspectors are of the opinion that if Chief | Engineer Herlihy had called this force on | deck to man the boats many more lives | would have peen saved. | The first few pages of thg dectsion deal { with the evidence in a condensed his- | torical way, and after this come the opin- fon and findings of the inspectors, as fol- low: “After careful consideration of this mat- ter we are of the opinion that Captain Ward is to blame for allowing the steam- | ship City of Rio de Janeiro to leave her | anchorage, as he did, on February 22. After leaving her anchorage the vessel was in charge of F. W. Jordan, State pilot, who was much to blame for at- tempting to bring the steamship City of Rio de Janeiro from a safe anchorage into the harbor of San Francisco in a dense fog at night, with a strong ebb tide run- ning, the curreut being made stronger and | more uncertain by the freshets in the riv- | ers. “At her last inspection, April 28, 1900, there was on board of the ship eleven life- bogts and eleven liferafts (4124 cublc feet capacity), and also 671 life-preservers dis- tributed in the steerage and the state- rooms, with notices of same in each room. The ship had five water-tight bulkheads Fg60d OFREE ATt Heie of this disas- ter there were 205 persons on board the steamship. Captain Ward, master, all the officers except the second and third mates | and the chief engineer, sixty-eight pas- | sengers and fifty-four of the crew were | lost—in all 127 lives. The City of Rio de Janelro was valued at $500,00 and her car- go estimated to be worth $400,000. Case of the Chief Engineer. “P. H. Herlihy, chief engineer of the | | steamship City of Rio de Janeiro, the only | survivor of her engine-room officers, testi- { fled that he had been in the employ of the | Pacific Mail Steamship Company since | 1573, and that he was on this steamer | when she was lost on February 22 last. He | testified that there were no orders given | to bank the fires on the night of February | 21, when the steamer came to an anchor, | but it was so considered. When askdd if | the City of Rlo de Janeiro had a full head re recent- by e, ur of Only which et Hits Miss Buckley’s Dress. G s and grazing his The brok: the front cloth for an s course by an effort to the would-be t shot went wild. 't very Moul- a bad case of in- Miss of m , either for hske timony of n er. Subsequent- coholic s fixed mulants, idea in or no firing the shots Moulton at the Theater. Thurs lton occupied a box at t er, purchasing six ticke which he used. His actio theater attracted at- audlence and on the On one of stage. After leaving the theater Moulton was seen to take a number of drinks in near- by saloons. W’ e was arrested a bot- MURRAY HALL'S ESTATE P\ MISS MAY BUCKLEY, THE CLEVER | A DRUG-CRAZED YOUNG MAN FIRED FIVE SHOTS, ONE OF WHICH PASSED THROUGH HER DRESS. s CALIFORNIA ACTRESS, AT WHOM tle partly filled with half-grain sulphate of morphine tablets and a bottle nearly full of a ligquid solution of morphine were found in his pocket. While walting to be arraigned in the West Side Court he stated that he had partaken freely of these drugs and gave this as an excuse for his conduct. Moulton said that his home was in Springfield, Tenn., and that he had been +for three vears a student of architecture special at Columbia College. He sald that he remembered going to the theater, but recalled nothing aftér the curtain rose on the second act. He denled knowing Miss Seligman. He was held in $5000 ball and his examination was set for Monday. Wanted for Swindling. Dingwall's friends who saw him at the The will signed by Hall leaves her estate PUZZLE FOR A COURT | '© her adopted daughter, Imelia A. Hall It is not worth more than $200. This Surrogate in New York Must Now |dopted daughter in her petition for pro- Determine Whether She Was Wife or Husband. March 22—It is virtually gate Fitzgerald to decide known 's was found to be a husband. This 0dd character was always looked upon as a widower after the death of the woman she married a quarter of a century ago. | out as a woman, and says she died with- i bate of the will speaks of Hall through- out any heirs at law. Miss Hall says that she lived in the fam- | ily of the deceased for more than fifteen ray Hamilton Hall, who in | Years prior to her death, and frequently a man but after death | talked with her and with other persons in woman, was wife or | her presence. Murray Hall lrequently‘ ‘ said that all members of her family were | dead and that she had no relatives of any kind living. This petition will be submit- ted ‘to Burrogate Fitzgerald for his con- sideration. +* himself for the past two years by swind- ling. CHICAGO, March 22.—George Warren, treasurer of McVicker's Theater, sald, when told of the shooting of Dingwall and Leffingwell: “Mr. Leffingwell was an advance agent for Mr. Litt and at various times has act- ed in that capacity for Mme. Modjeska and for Otis Skinner. I understand that he was wealthy in former years, enjoy- ing an annual income of $70,00. He spent his money with the greatest freedom and was very fond of yechting. He floated about the Mediterranean one season in his own craft. At one pofnt in his life he owned a newspaper in Hartford, Conn. He was known in cveny important city in the country.” GOSHEN BARELY ESCAPES DESTRUCTION BY FIRE Woman Upsets a2 Lamp and for a Time the Entire Town Is Threatened. TULARE, March 22.—At Goshen, about eight miles north of here, the wife of R. W. Woods, assistant agent of the South- ern Pacific, while taking a bath knocked over a lamp. It exploded and set fire to the house. For a short time the entire town, including the railroad's large ofl tanks and coal docks, was threatened, of steam in her boilers on the morning of the 22d, before she started to enter the | harbor, Mr. Herlihy stated that the limit ‘was 160 pounds, but they had 145 pounds, | and that, although he did not see it, he | knew it was there, as that was his order | and what they generally had at anchor- | age. We must here remark that there | should have been between 155 ‘and 160 | pounds pressure on this occasion before entering port, but there is no one living who actually knows what the steam | gauge then registered, Mr. Herlihy, chiet | engineer, the one who should know, hav- ing been absent from his post of duty, | ana Mr. Brady, the engineer on watch, having been drowned. “Mr. Herlihy further testified that he was not called on the morning of the 22d, but was awakened by the engines being moved, and that he got up and looked in the englne-room, saw a full crew and then returned to his room and remained there until the ship struck, and his reason for so doing, he stated, was that the assistant engineers were competent men. “When asked what were his dutles as chief engineer, Mr. Herlihy replied that they were to supervise everything in his department; but he testified that he did not supervise anything on the morning ot the 22d, and he further stated that Cap- tain Ward came to his room on the night of the 21st and sald to him: ‘Mr. Herlihy, room without calling you." Censure of Herlihy. “In this connection we must say that 1t : SOLE MARCONI NEW YORK, March 22.—Guglielmo Mar- coni, inventor of wireless telegraphy, has ‘won the suit brought against him for $100,- 000 damages and to restrain him from fur- ther use of his invention by the assignee of A. BE. Dolbear. Urited States Judgo Alfred C. Coxe, for the Southern New York District, dismissed the suit with costs to the defendant. The nature of the decree proves a signal victory for Signor Marconi in his conten- tion that he is the soie inventor of wire- less telegraphy and is based on communi- cations from counsel for complalnant which virtually admit the superiority of the Marcon! system and his right to use such eystem. The action was brought ggainst Signor Marconi when he first came to thls but after a few hours’ ‘work the fire was got under control and the town saved. country, in October, 189, by Lyman C. Leonard, assignee of the patents of Amos I will give my instructions to the engine-" CAPTAIN WARD, PILOT JORDAN AND CHIEF ENGINEER HERLIHY ARE CENSURED FOR RIO WRECK e Pl Lot e g9 JorDAN ¢ United States Inspectors Render Their Decision in Which They Blame Herlihy for Neglect of Duty in Not Calling His White Crew on Deck to Man the Boats and Save Lives of Passengers CHIEF ENGINEER. 'o HE.D.Ln—V &, 00 3 ENGINEER OF THE RIO AND PI- LOT CENSURED BY THE UNITED STATES INSPECTORS. VL4 " would be contrary. to good discipline for Captaln Ward to have given the order al- leged by Mr. Herlihy, and the latter, as chief engineer, being master of his own department, could nefther have accepted nor obeyed it, as the rules of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company are posted in the engine-rooms of its steamships, and require that all the engineers shall be at thelr posts of duty when entering and leaving port. We will add that it is an un- written law that the chief engineer of g steam vessel like the steamship City of Rio de Janeiro be on duty on leaving or entering port. Moreover the testimony in this case shows that on the morning of the disaster Captain Ward gave an order to call the chief engineer. “Upon being asked what steam the gauge registered on the morning of the INVENTOR OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY B. Dolbear of Boston. Leonard asserts that Dolbear was the original inventor of a mode of electric communication without wires, for ‘which patent No. 350,209 had been {ssued in 1886 to the Dolbear Electriz Telephone Company of New Jersey. Signor Marcon! in his answer not only makes sweeping denial of these allega- tlons but declares that the Dolbear pat- ents are valueless and. invalid. Charlos R. Cross, professor of physics in the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology in Bos- ton, and Dr. John Ambrose Fleming, professor of electrical engineering at the University College in London, testi- fled in support of Marconl's claims. No evidence was heard on the side of the plaintiff. The sult was dismissed by Judge Coxe after the declsion of Leonard to offer no testimony. L G o e e o B CAPTURE BOERS, SHEEP, HORSES AND CATTLE 224 Mr. Herlihy answered: ‘I do not know by personal observation; I was not in the engine-room until the ship struck.’ Yet he testifled previously that he had looked into the engine-room and saw a full crew on duty. He also testified that on the morning that tte steamship was entering port he could distinctly hear the Lime Point whistle and could plainly distin- guish it from the North Head whistle, both of which were blowing at the time. He should then have got up and attended to his dutfes. Mr. Herlihy testified that at full speed coming over from Yokohama this trip the engines averaged 71.6 revolu- tions per minute, which gave a speed of 12.24 knots per hour, and that at hailf- speed the steamer made as high as nine and sometimes ten knots per hour on an average of sixty revolutions per minute. BRITIS BLOEMFONTEIN, March 22.—The re- sult of the combined movement against General Fourie, near Thaba N'Chu, was the capture of 200 Boers, 120,000 sheep, 5000 horses and a host of cattle. The Boers broke southward to the right and left. CAPE TOWN, March 22—The Prime | Minister reports that Colonel Scobell en- | gaged Commandants Fouche and Molan near Blaauwkrantz last Wednesday. The enemy broke and scattered to the north- east. The British casualties were three killed and four wounded. The Boers lost four killed and twenty-elght, captured. ‘They also lost 148 horses, which were cap- tured. - Commandant Kritzinger crossed the railway at Henning station yesterday I morning to the northeast. The British + It was arranged. between himself and Captain Ward as to the speed under cer- tain bells. When he wanted to go very slow he rang two bells. Herlihy’s License Revoked. ““When the ship struck he ran down inte the engine-room, the engines were stopped and the water was coming through the alleyway to the platform, but he had all the injections closed, the bilge pumps put on the bilges and then gave orders to the men on watch to leave the engine-room. When asked if he ordered his men to stand by the boats he said he had recefved no orders to do so, but would not swear that the signal was not given. He left all the men in his department at the donkey boiler, on the main deck, to awalt orders, and then went to his room to dress him- self, notwithstanding that during all this time the lights had all gone out, and four minutes after he entered his room the ship sank. When asked if it was not his place to order the men to stand by the boats when nothing more could be done with the pumps, he said that that was the custom. He testified that the chief engineer was supposed to be at his post and to order and see his men at their sta- tions when leaving or entering port, but on this occasion the men were not called. “He sald he was the only offender; he did not get anv orders to man the boats, and said that that accounted for the rea- son that so many of those men went down. “Had Mr. Herlihy been at his post and fully dressed, as he should have been on this occasion, it is reasonable to suppose that he would have heard the signal which was given from the bridge to man the boats. He could then have called the officers and the balance of the crew in his department to the upper deck to their boat sta- tions, which action, we believe, would have resulted in saving more lives. “The evidence givenbyMr. Herlihy, chiet engineer of the steamship City of Rio de Janelro, is conclusive that he was inatten- tive to the duties of his position on the morning of February 22 last, and for such neglect of duty on his part we have this day, under section 4450, United States Re- yised Statutes, revoked his license as chief engineer of ocean steamers. Very respectfully, “0. F. BOLLES, “JOHN K. BULGER, “Local Inspectors.” —_— Will Appraise Wreck of Rio. United States District Judge de Haven issued an order yesterday authorizing United States Commissioner George E. Morse to take testimony for the purpose of appraising the value of the Rio de Ja- neiro and also the value of the freight. columns are in vigorous pursuit. Boers in eastern and midland districts are appar- ently making for Orange River Colony. belng steadily pursued by the British. Small partles remaining in the south in the vicinity of Adelaide and Fort Beau- fort are being energetically dealt with. There are apparently no organized bodles of invaders against which the troops can operate. A small commando appears to be still in the neighborhood-wf Kallamas, Namaqualand. The Boers fre watching the town of Pella. It is evident, despite the constant rumors of the presence of commandos, there is no coherence among the Boers in Orangze River Colony. None of the forces there are strong enough to withstand the British advance, There was one death from plague at the Lhospital here yesterday.