The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-NO. - 1 [ SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1901. — ) PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHARITY SWINDLERS ARE DEMORALIZED AND SWIFTLY SCURRYING TO COVER { a benefit concert in San Francisco in aid of the society. “I am astonished to hear that Mamlock is attempting such a thing in the north. without authority and senting us.” Angeles benefit box receipts amounted to more than $500. | society 20 per cent of the receipts. should be considered an impostor. He said to-night: I did not think he would dare to do such a thing. There is a society with a name like ours somewhere near San Francisco and it is possible he is arranging a benefit for that society. Mamlock managed a benefit concert in aid of the South Pasadena institution at Blanchard’s Hall in this city on May 30. President Salisbury says Mamlock has not settled with the society for either performance and t Mamlock told him, however, that he had lost money, as the expenses were heavy. - SALISBURY OF LOS ANGELES DECLARES THAT MAMLOCK | OS ANGELES, June 16.—President John C. Salisbury of the Boys’ Two nights previous he gave a similar benefit in Pasadena. hat the institution has as yet 1eceived nothing from the benefits. IS AN~ He IMPOSTOR. and Girls’ Aid Society, the headquarters of which is at South Pasadena, declares that Harry Mamlock is in no way authorized by the‘society to give If he is collecting money in San Francisco for such a benefit he is acting certainly is not repre- In each case he was to give the Salisbury estimates that the Los MISCREANT ATTEMPTS 3 TO WREC Mysterious Changing Engine and Passenger Coaches Crash-| ing Into Freight Special Dispatch to The Call. | APA, June 16.—A villainous at- tempt to wreck the Napa Val- ley passenger train and appar- ently to destroy.the lives of more than a score of men, women and children was made this evening b at a point less than six hun- depot. That it ul was due more t which the train was hitch in the arrange- person who prepared the terrible disaster. of Engineer John R. Ruther- Miller from death in heir engine and a couple of freight cars was accomplished by the ce. They collision occurred and leaped e engine cab. Rutherford severely sprained an ankle and was considerably bruised. Miller also received injuries, but they are mot serious. Several passerngers were thrown over the seats in the cars and sustained slight bruises. Among them is Peter Heaton of Vallejo, whose right painfully injuted. Chang-mg of the Switch. T o d been (\“ned to throw the pas- senger train off the main track and on to side rails upon which were a number of freight cars. The switch is only a few hundred yards south of the depot and is said be invariably operated, when changes are required, by the conductors side is a which h or b men of passing trains. Three trains crossed the switching point during the it is known that in the ear! afternoon the lock had not been opened by railroad employes to divert traffic from the main After the accident the lock was but been The generally line 1 intact, ned by the raflroad men = that some person possessed of a opened it after the swung the switch, the lock. T »n for the disaster, ct that all trains remained before the arrival of the with the freight cars. ey train, ‘which runs from here key te ed view of th » to Calist: DFUGGED TELEGRAPH OPERATOR PREVENTS WRE Retains Consciousness Long Enough to Force Away From a Switch Special Dispatch to The Call. SHAMOKIN, Pa., June 16—Ten min- es before the Philad a express on e Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ached the Big Mountain signal cabin ere last night two well ntered the office and ruse succeeded in drugging the tele- operator, Torrence Hannan, nd, Thomas Horan.. Horan almost collapsed. Hannan grew dizzy and felt his senses leaving. Hel saw one of the strangers working a ewitch end at the same moment heard the whistle of the coming express. The other stranger stood in the doorway. Hannan threw himself upon the man at the lever and pushed him to the door, @ DR. GRANT TAKES SLAP AT ANDB.EW CARNEGIE Criticizes the Action of Cities That | Accept His Gifts of Libraries. ate services of the commencement exer- cises of the College of New York were held to-day in the Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Granr, the rector, delivered the sermon. In his address to the graduates he said | among other things: The great temptation which 1 believe will beset your path is materialism. We see about us men with immense wealth, here one poss ¥ing one hundred millions, there one worth twg millions one worth four millions. We find a man giving libraries to a city which should be ashamed to receive them when kncws his name must be written across the bufldings which he gives. The same man glves universities to & country which never asked for saything in university education but an y to earn it. the men who have amassed great fortunes attach too much importance to the fough and ready Epirit which they believe to there ome unknown | realized thelr peril | the switch had | presumption and the one | and | EW YORK, June 16.—The baccalaure- | K NAPA TRAIN of a Switch Sends an| Cars Near a Station which was a considerable number of pas- | sengers. There also a baggage car | attac Rutherford was in the cab of | | the engine with Miller as his fireman. Th= | | ed train was in charge of Conductor Me- | Clain Engine Strikes the Cars. When within a short station here Rutherford slow down for stop. There was began to minutes’ | nothing to him of impending disaster. The switch ap- | peared to be in proper condition. The track was clear to the devot and over on a side track were a number of box cars. aistance of the | | | the few warn To the surprise and alarm of Ruther- | ford and his fireman, the engine sud- denly left the main track and swung | over on the siding. The freight cars were only a few hundred feet ahead. The | train was not running on fast time, but the speed was sufficient to make it im- possible for the engineer to avert a col- lision. Rutherford shouted to Miller to jump. The men were none too soon. In| another instant the engine smashed into | the first freight car, wrecking smoke- | stack, headlight and pilot. and crushing | the massiye boiler. The box ears Were rent Into a thousand pieces. The shock of the collision created a | panic in the passenger coaches. Men rushed to the platforms after picking themselves up from the floors and women | screamed in thelr terror. The jarring | they received was severe, but only a few | persons received injuries and those are not of a serious nature. The engineer and fireman were assistd to the station, | physiclans were summoned and they re- ceived every attendance. The passengers were transferred to a special train after a delay of nearly two heurs. Mystery of the Wreck. Conductor McClain sald to-night that | he feels certain some person with a Key | [ to the switch lock deliberately attempted | to wreck the train. No freight train was | expected and there was consequently mno| occasion for changing the switch to cor nect with the sidetrack. The persons em- | ployed in the railroad service here declare | they had no knowledge of any change m‘ | the switch and they are unable to explain | why or when it was reversed. They are\ certain that some one used a key on !he‘ | 1ock, opened it and closed it when all was in readiness for the wrecking of the train. CKING OF A TRAIN| Culprit Until Express Passes. and the two robbers went ouf as the ex- | press thundered past in safety. Hannan | staggered to the telegraph key and man- | aged to tell the office here that the ex- | press had come and gone in safety. Then | be sct the danger signal for all trains | and collapsed. Half naked and almost | dead the two men were found in the { signal cabin by trainmen. By injecting heart stimulants physi- cians revived the men this morning. They | had been drugged with chloral hydrate. Several arrests were made te-day, but Hannan and Horan failed to identify the | suspects. The robbers are believed to be members of the band which shot the | Chief of Police of Mahony City yester- day, | SECOND BODY TAKEN “ FROM TBE NORTHFIELD Raising of the Staten Island Ferry- Boat Will Be Attempted ! To-Day. ! NEW YORK, June 16.—A second body | has been taken from the sunken Staten | Island ferry-boat Northfield. It was re- | covered at noon to-day and proved to be | that of Juan Benitiz, a cierk in the steam- Rhip office of French, Edey & Co. of this | city. He was a young Porto Rican, who ‘came here to learn the shipping business. | The raising of the Northfield probably | will be undertaken to-morrow. | @ it @ | have aided them most materially. Mr. Schwab, | we may conclude, has little confidence in edu- | cation along higher lines as an assistance in business affairs. The men of millions have power. Wherever they throw the vast impulse of their capital the labors are accomplished. They have un- limited power. Young men see this, and what is the result? They throw themselves like fagots into the furnace of material produc. tion. |Italian Priest Tells of | teen Belgian priests, s | CONFIRMS NEWS-OF-— MASSACRE P Recent Atrocities in| Southern Mongolia e Catholic Clergymen and Their Converts Slain by Tuan’s Men Special Dispatch to The Call. EKING, June 16.—An TItalian priest, who has arrived here from Shensi, confirms the report pre- viously made by priests in Shan- si in regard to a massacre of Ro- man Catholic clergymen in Southern Mongolia. He says fif- with a number of | converts, were massacred at Niangtaoli- ang, Southern Mongolia, several weeks ago by soldiers under Prince Tuan, Duke Lan and General Tung Fu Hsian. The Belgian Minister is not inclined to hold the court responsible for the crime. He says the district where the massacres occurred is the ren- dezvous of many former officials who have been degraded or sentenced to banishment. Those officials are exercising high military power for the time being, and it is imposibsle for the Chinese Gov- ernment to suppress them. The policy’ of the Beigians is purely commercial. They are desirous of securing many new con- cessions and are opposed to embarrass- ing the Chinese authorities at present. The Ministers have practically agreed on all the chief points In regard to the payment of indemnity. All are willing to accept the American proposition of an in- demnity of 450,000,000 taels, with interest at 4 per cent, bonds to be issued at par, and an annual payment of 15,000,000 taels to the sinking fund. Russia's objection to the proposal has been removed and Italy and Japan will accept, although they are unable to raise a loan at 4 per cent. .Sev- eral of the Ministers have telegraphed to their home Governments in regard to the matter and are awaiting replles before making final announcement of the agree- ment. The Ministers have also determined the sources from which the revenue shall be raised, namely salt gabelle and native cus- toms. At the treaty ports maritime cus- toms are increased to mn effective 5 per cent. Mr. Rockhill, the American Special Commissioner, obtained consent of the other powers to this and also to the con- servancy of Woosung harbor, near Shang- hai, and the entrance to Peiho, near Tientsin, matters which the local cham- bers of commerce have urgently desired for thirty years. It would seem, therefore, that all arti- cles of the protocol have been settled sat- isfactorily, except the new regulations in regard to modifying commercial treaties, which may not be necessary after all. The Ministers are elated at the termina- tion of their trying experiences during the negotiations. Personally, they could have reached an agreement at any time. -+ HERE was a general scurrying to cover yesterday on the part of the professional charity | schemers and an eager desire on confesslons as to the doings of their as- soclates. Henry Mamlock, Miss Julie Howle and Mrs. C. E. Wilcox were taken into cus- | tody in the morning by Detective Hamill and held at the Hall of Justice for several | It was expected that a complaint | hours. would be sworn to charging them with b the part of many of them to ex- | culpate themselves by making | ‘(‘,Uuld hold him. Ass cence, while giving damaging testimony against their erstwhile assoclates. | Just how much money these bands of | schemers have obtained In this city | in the past few months may never | be known. Mamlock, who has known | Doneghy for fourteen years, declared yesterday that the chlef worker "had carried on his schemes for | that Jength of time ail over the coun-| try and was reputed to have drawn from | charitable persons the epormous sum of | $500,000. Doneghy has always had the rep- | | utation of being a liberal spender and as | fast as the coin would come in it would | | be flung away, so he is not supposed to | be possessed of any great amount of | wealth at present. Mamlock yesterday made a weak at- tempt to clear himself of the accusation of having sold tickets for a bogus soclety, | | i | and the police were obliged to accept his | statements, with reservations, as there | was no charge sworn to on which they ant Secretary Mil- ler of the Young Men's Christian Assocla- tion has a number of letters in his posses- sion from people who bought tickets, but Miller positively refused yesterday to | furnishk the police with the names, even when it was pointed out to him that such CAPTURE CAMP OF BRITISH Victorian Riflemen Are Surprised by Boers in Attack at Night Many Are Slain and the Assailants Carry Off Two Pompoms SR NDON, June 16.—Lord Kitchener has cabled from Pretoria under to-day’s date as follows: “Near Welmansrust, twenty miles south of Middlesburg, 250 Vie- torian ~ mounted rifles from General Beaston’s column were surprised in camp at Steenkoolspruit by a su- perior force of Boers at 7:30 p. m. June 12. The enemy crept up to within short range and poured a deadly fire into the camp, killing two officers and sixteen men and wounding four officers and thir- ty-eight men, of whom twenty-eight were slightly wounded. Only two officers and fifty men escaped to General Beaston's camp. The remainder were taken prison- ers and released. Two pompoms were captured by the enemy. Full details have not yet been received.” The serfous reverse which Lord Kitch- ener reports is the first ‘‘accident” of the kind that has occurred to the Australian contingent and it is supposed to have been due to neglect of proper picketing. Al- though it is offset by the defeat inflicted upon Dewet, the loss of the guns is re- garded as a serious matter, which will encourage the Boers to continue the struggle. . || J | Mrs. C. | yesterday and were willing enough to | case. | 8'ven them instructions to “be sure and | had presented tickets for sale, | them in order to I>‘E:LLE. JMITH iy % Henry Mamlock and Two Women Are Taken Into Custody by Police but Ar: Released Owing to Reluctance of Ticket Purchasers to Come Forward and Swear to a Complaint Charging Fraud I have his power of attorney to act for him and sign his name to all documents. 1 have tried to get up concerts for other societies in San Francisco, but Doneghy was here ahead of me.” When questioned further, Mamlock ad- mitted that he had no written authority from Salisbury to give concerts, “only a verbal authority.” On being asked for the power of attorney, Mamlock was obliged to admit that he only had a “verbal per- mission” to sign Salisbury’s name. DID NOT INTEND ANY DECEPTION Mamlock is a shrewd advertising agent and is a glib talker. He declared with considerable surprise that in printing the tickets he did not think that any one in | San Francisco would be deceived in the name, alifornia Boys' and Girls’ Ald Society,” and that no one would confound it with the Boys and Girls’ Ald Soclety located in this city. He clalms that he instructed his women canvassers “to be sure and explain to people that this con- cert is for a soclety located in Pasadena, Southern California.” When asked why he did not explain this on the face of the ticket, Mamlock pleaded that “It had never occurred to him.” Miss Belle Smith, Miss Julie Howie and E. Wilcox were closely questioned talk. Their stories were the same in each They claimed that Mamlock had tell every one not to confound this society for the one in San Francisco: that ours is in Pasadena.” All three women, however, were forced to admit that on many occaslons they but had not made any explanation as to where the “California Boys’ and Girls' Aid Soclety’ was located. The women readily admit- | ted that it was possible that purchasers of the tickets believed they were buying ist the society located in San Francisco. Mamlock and the three women are liv- ing in a boarding-house at the corner of LS obtaining money by false pretenses in sell- ing tickets for a “benefit” concert for the “California Boys' and Girls’ Aid So- clety,” a fictitious organization, but ow- ing to the reluctance of purchasers of tickets to prosecute them the police were obliged to let them go free temporarily. If, however, the police can secure a sworn complaint against Mamlock he will be ar- rested and prosecuted and similar action will be taken in regard to others of the 11k. “If 1 can secure sworn complaints,” saild Captain of Detectives Seymour, “I will take the whole crowd into custody. The trouble is that people who have been defrauded do mot like to come forward and admit that they have been duped.” ‘W. W. Doneghy, alias Donnely, and his chief aid, Helen Barnes, are preparing to leave the city for parts unknown. Henry Mamlock is, or pretended to be, eager to refund the money to all persons who bought tickets for a bogus soclety concert and go into a legitimate business. while Mrs. K. C. Gregory, alias Miss C. C. Gra- ham, endeavors to clear her reputation by swearing before a notary that she was never associated or acquainted with Don- eghy, a statement absolutely false. The action of the police in taking into custody Henry Mamlock, Miss Julie Ho- wie and Mrs. C. E. Wilcox, even though they were released almost immediately, | alarmed the swindlers, and San Francisco may soon be rid of the whole erowd who have under the guise of philanthropy filled their pockets with gold galore. ‘With the machinery of the law set in motion the charity workers hastened to make confessions, but all tried to cover | up their own misdoings by a plea of inno- 3 | : 1 i | |1 | | o~ | C.E-WILCOX-- | : : || L3 3 PRINCIPALS AND OTHERS CONNECTED WITH CHARITY | SWINDLING SCHEME. | + <+ a step was necessary in order that a com- plaint might be secured. Miller urged that he did not want to be brought into the affair. | The knowledge that the police were tak- ing an active interest in his affairs, how- ever, frightened Mamlock and made him eager to ta'lk. In a voluble manner he told how he had known Doneghy for four- teen years, and that the latter had al- ways persuaded him to take up the *‘char- ity” concert work. “When I met Doneghy recently,” said Mamlock, “he asked me to go in with him. I did not do so. but started in for myself. I went to Los Angeles and got up two concerts there for the Boys’ and Girls’ Ald Society of Pasadena. Miss Julie Howie, | Mrs. C. E. Wilcox, Miss Belle Smith and Miss Isabelle McDonald all sold tickets for me there. I brought them to San Francisco with me three weeks ago. I have authority from J. C. Salisbury, president of the society, to give concerts for his organization all over the State. | went into it. Post and Leavenworth streets, while Miss McDonald resides on Hyde street. “BUSINESS™ RUINED BY CALL'S EXPOSE After the women had made their state- ments Mamlock said: “I will admit that the expose in The Call has put an end to my business, legit- imate or illegal. I am ready to get out of this kind of work and am sorry I ever I have a family, and I don’t want to get into any trouble. I am will- ing to return all the money to those who bought my tickets and send the three women back to Lheir homes in Los An- geles. I suppose it is correct to call Doneghy’s work by the name of ‘grafting.’ but there is nothing fllegal in it. My girls have not sold many tickets—about fifty- four, that is all. The write-ups in The Call made it @difficult for them to sell many. I am telling the truth when I say that Mr. Salisbury, the president of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society in Los An- geles. gave me his authority to give con- certs for his society in any part of the State. If he telegraphs back that he did not give me authoiity to do so it may be because he does not know that I have started in to work up a concert in San Francisco. I the name ‘Caiifornia Boys' and Girls’ Aid Society” on the tick- ets because he told me that his soclety was a State institution. T did not think it was necessary to add the words ‘of Pasa- dena' to the tickets. Honestly, I never save it a thought. and did net think any one in Frisco would be deceived by the ticket. I saw Mr. Bayley of the Boys’ and Girls’ Ald Soclety out near the park and tried to get up a concert for hum, Continued on Page Two