The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1901, Page 1

2 VOLUME XC-NO. 21 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901, PRICE FIVE CENTS. JUDGE FRITZ DENOUNCES METHODS . OF PROFESSIONAL CHARITY WORKERS IN DECIDING CONSPIRACY CHARGE Dismisses Accused Persons for Lack of Legal Evidence That Is Mainly Due to the Reluctance of Victims to Come Forward and Assist Police Department in Securing a Conviction — <+ | Barres as fakers and frauds, then took | *There is a suspicion in my mind that | the stana ana swore that a newspaper re- | Doneghy was connected with Mamlock in porter had impersonated a detective of- | the fraud engineered by the latter. The ficer, when as & matter of fact Weinberg | three women—Howle, Smith and Wilcox— - AI3ISTANT - DISTRIC; AT TornEy Harnley Arcuro FoR THE PeopLE - n a charge of conspiracy ey by false pre-| | placed on trial yes-| | before Police | | t District At-]| | e prosecution efendants were alfo rep- tenses were wrivle, sp | A Fritz ning of the trial the prosecu- ed an amended complaint and the sought to ng a_number of | | all of which r the defendants by offe Judge /‘ Helen Barnes and ng one faction Isabelle McDonald, Howie and Mrs. C. E n who sold Mamlock's all pleaded not 3 l tickets etk o JUDGE FRITZ, IN RENDERING HIS DECISION IN TRIAL OF CHAR- ITY WORKERS, DECLARES THEIR METHODS ARE REPREHENSH BLE AND THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE WARNED AGAINST THEM. t witness called was Charles A of the Columbian had purchased concert in aid d Girls' Ald tion of the mind of had sueceeded for the | | B ik S -+ ed the regorter to pose as an officer | may have been the dupes of Mamlock and and search the room of Helen Barnes for | I will give them the benefit of the doubt. evidence, the request of Weinberg being | The evidence s positive that Miss Me. naturally refused. Weinberg, who had admitted on Satur- day that Doneghy w ‘a grafter and a fraud,” and that he was assisted by Helen Barnes in duping the public, tried on the | witness stand to make out that they were | innocent people. lock foisted his| Detective Hamill told of investigating the public, for | the schemes of Mamlock and the Done- of the accused | ghy-Barnes-Deiweiller combination and | | how his investigations showed, that Mam. Testimony of Reporters, {1ock’s concert scheme was an absolute | know fully what is golng on. I have no fraud, and that Doneghy and Mamlock | doubt whatever that the public has been An attempt on the part of on gl g - B vt ,,r -k 461:-,.5 ”z one of the| oo ciosely connected. | deceived in making contributions, believ- i ol Roore te Snake o | Ing that the money was for the entire i in | ublie spirit came r to a complaint told how ng a ticket, aid of the B | Donald did make false pretenses in sell- |ing the ticket to’the’complaining witness. That might be the basis for another , charge. This complaint charges the va- rious defendants with conspiracy to ob- | n money by false pretenses. In dis- ing all the defendants, I wish to state that I do not approve of the methods em- | ployed by Doneghy and his associates, It is a good thing that these cases have been brought, so that the public may ers was m existence of a plot by bogus concert scheme tickets. it tt 2 - “| Assistant District Attorney Hanley ad- ‘:. ness aflrm :\m he had sought to en- | mitted that Mamlock was the prime mov- | Us¢ of the charities mentioned. I trust list the aid of Captain of Detectives Sey- that such methods will be stopped in the mour elicited the reply that the Chief of | future by the publicity s ’ 1 L] s Aisappearaocs freybuted he Thiroanc- e by the publicity given in this case. Detectives had pronounced all the defend- | gtz 3 tostimony which might | The defendants are dismissed.” ants to b it o ok y tion of | e S R O SAONIFS Anll that e | Doneghy and his workers in the| It is probable that the action of The was sorry that the Police Department | “OPRect : B 2t savars AR e, | it i el | Call in showing up the methods of these i o gh ce to con- charity swindlers will at least result in vict them of trava Defendants Are Dismissed, 4puuing the public on its guard and pre- M. B. Welnberg, who last Saturday was | Judge Fritz, in giving his declsion dis- | vent charitably inclined eitizens from be. eager to denounce Doneghy and Helen | missing the,defendants, sald: ing again imposed on by them. RAPACIOUS POWERS OF EUROPE REACH ‘ OUT FOR STILL MORE OF CHINA'S GOLD | er in the fake concert schemes and that | Now Ask_ That Expenses of Military Forces Be Paid in Addition to the Enormous Indemnity. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BU 146 G STREET, N. WASHINGTON, June 20.—Again the Shylock powers have come forward with a demand for more of China’s flesh. Not content with the enormous indem- nity of 450000000 taels which China has promised to pay, it is learned from diplo- metic sources that a nmew proposal has greedy conduct is looked wupon with amazement. Grave doubts are entertained | by the President that China will be able to pay 450,000,000 taels, and if this sum is increased it is certain that the Peking Government will be unable to satisfy the installments of the debt and that fresh Standard from Shanghai announces that trustworthy reports say that General Ting Hsiang.is organizing a large body of vet- eran troops with the intention of raising a rebellion in the northwestern provinces of the Middle Kingdom. “‘A high native authority,” cables the complications will arise after the present negotiations are concluded. A strong ef- fort will be made by the administration to obtain a majority of the powers to oppose the adoption of the proposal. LONDON, June 21.—A dispatch to the Shanghal correspondent of = the Ti, “says Germany proposes that Chinnn;:’; the indemnity in small annual amounts for fourteen years with increased amounts for the remaining twenty-six years, and that Great Britain will probably agree to this proposition.” 2 been submitted to the powers contempiat- ing the addition to this total of “several millions of taels to pay the expenses in- curred by the maintenance of military forces in the Celestial Empire. This MINE SUARD FIRE VOLLEY AT STRIKERS Blood Flows at the Mari- time Works in West Virginia. Two Men Mortally Wounded in an Attack on the Colliery. Tnion Laborers Are Gathering to Avenge the Falling of Their Comrades. MATTEWAN, W. Va., June 20.—The strained relations between the union and non-union miners have resulted in blood- shed. Torday several hundred union min- ers who are on strike marched in a body against the Maritime mines of this place, ‘where non-union men were at work. They tried to effect an entrance, but the oper- ators, with twenty guards armed with Wirchesters, blocked the entrance. The non-union miners were, headed by Superintendent Lambert, and.when the union men persisted in their attempt he gave the command to fire. Fully fift{ shots were fired. Boyd Martin and Riley Johnson were fatally shot and Sam Artrip was dangerously wounded. The union men did not return the fire, but dispersed. AIl the unfon miners throughout Mingo | are collecting to reach here to-morrow. | Serious trouble is_expected when they | agaln try to effect an entrance to the Maritime mines. Sheriff Hatfield js on | the scene with Wifty deputies and says he | proposges to do his du VIGILANCE OF OFFICERS PREVENTS A LYNCHING Angry Mob Sought fo Wr-~k Sum- mary Vengeance en a Fl:ilip- pine Volunteer. ROCK SPRINGS, Wryo.. June 20— George Ecker, a Philippine volunteer, who raised a check several months ago and who shot and killed Deputy Sheriff C. B. Holden and fatally wounded Fred Rear- | don while resisting arrest, was captured and brought to this city to-day and placed in iail. Ecker admits the shooting. He narrowly missed lynching at; thehands of a mob near Thomas Framels' remehi and only the vigilance and determination of the officers in charge of the prisoner pre- vented summary justice being meted out Ecker was taken to Evanston late this afternoon and placed in jail there. o e GEORGIA POLICEMAN DECOYED TO HIS DEATH | Summoned to a Lonely Spot and There Shot by a Negro, Who Afterward Escaped. ATLANTA, Ga., June 2).—Patrolman E. H. Debray was shot and killed in the west end of this city by a negro, who has not been captured. Tt is believed Debray was | decoyed to his death. One man, a negro named Hammond, who sent the policeman to the place where death was dealt him, has been arrested. Hammond told the policeman there was trouble at the end of the car line. De- bray found three negroes there, apparent- ly in a row. One of the negroes resisted | arrest and shot Debray. DRUNKEN CLERK TRIES TO STRIKE CROWN PRINCE | Aims a Blow at a Carriage Window at Which Frederick William Was Seated. BERLIN, June 20.—While the Crown | Prince Frederick Willlam was on his way from Mincer to Bonne a drunken indi- vidual aproached his carriage at Bochum, | Westphalia, yesterday, and aimed a blow with a stick at the window at which the Crown Prince was seated. The . in- dividual, ho described himself as a | clerk, was arrested. He said he merely desired to see the Crown Prince more clearly. — - MODOC JURY INDICTS MEN FOR A LYNCHING Three Residents of TLookout Are Charged With Having Been Implicated. ALTURAS, June 20.—The Grand Jury, which has been Investigating the lynch- ing of Calvin Hall, his three sons and Daniel Yantis, startled the community yesterday by announcing the indictment of Robert E. Leventer, Isom Eades and James W. Brown. These men are charged with having been implicated in the hang- ing of Martin Wilson, the young son of Hall. FEACis Bl X MILITARY COURT OF HONOR DEGRADES AN AUTHOR Very Heavily Punished for Throw- ing Ridicule Upon the Practice of Dueling. 74 LONDON, June 20.—The Vienna corre- spondent of the Daily Mail says that Arthur Schnitzler, the playwright and novelist, has been expelled from the ranks of reservist officers in the Austrian army and infamously degraded by a military court of honor for publishing a novel in which he throws ridicule upon the prac- tice of dueling. SEEKS MONEY BALM FROM DUKE OF MANCHESTER LONDON, June 20.—The Exchange Tele. graph Company says the legal prelimin- aries in the suit of Portia Knight, the American actress, against the Duke of Manchester for breach of promise, have been completed and the case has been set for hearing. Colonel Knight is here to ~vonort his daushter’s interests. ; HERBERT, THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC’S NEW OPERATING OFFICIAL, SEES THE CITY UNDER GUIDANCE OF FITZHUGH President Hays Is Expected to Arrive From Chicago To-Day and Rumors of Many Changes in Both the Operating and Audit- Corporation Are ing Departments of the Great Rife J. M. HERBERT, NOW IN THIS CITY, WHO HAS RESIGNED HIS POSITION AS SUPERINTENDENT OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN RAILROAD SYSTEM TO ACCEPT THE POSITION NOW HELD BY J. A. FILLMORE WITH THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY. M. HERBERT, whose arrival in the city to assume an fmpor- tant position with the Southern o Pacific Company was exclusive- Iy announced in The Call. spent a husy day yesterday viewing the city under the guidance of H. E. Fitzhugh. When Mr. Herbert will enter upon his du- tles as manager of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific is not known. Mr. Herbert is 37 years of age, but looks much older. He has a quiet demeanor and would pass in.a crowd unnoticed. He was apparently willing to talk to a re- porter yesterday, but Fitzhugh, who was present, and knows how much President Hays dislikes to see his employes quoted in the press. gave him a cautionary signal and the railroad man ftom St. Louis took the hint and returned brief and non-com- roittal answers to questions. “How long do you expect to remain out here?’ Mr. Herbert was asked. “I may remain in California several months,” he answered. “You have come to San Francisco to ac- cept a position with the Southern Pacific, heve you not?" “I cannot talk on this matter now,” he replied. “I may work for the Southern Pacific. ‘You should understand my position and realize that I am mot at liberty to enter into any dis- cussion bf the subject just at present.” Tater in the afterncon Mr. Herbert. be- came more communicative. Heé said that he had resigned his position as superin- tendent of the Iron Mountain road and that at present he was emploved by no raflroad. He knew Hays and had worked for him on the Wabash road. Hays Is Expected To-Day. President Hays will arrive from Chicago to-day, and his return is awaited with feverish anxiety in the big yellow - build- ing. A rumor is current in local railroad circles that the entire operative depart- ment in this city will be overhauled. Kruttschnitt as general manager is sup- posed,to be safe in his position, but with this exception it is said that the. entire staff will go. This includes Manager Fill- more, his assistant, N. H. Foster, and Master of Transportation Richardson. Nothing definite can, however, be learned and will not be positively known until Drasidant Hawva faanse hia affinial ainaia or I may not Hays is a most reticent man and makes no one his confidant. H. E. Fitzhugh, who was the first railroad official. he brought to the coast and who Is now. in the ep- ploy of the company, came here without any flourish of trumpets. He stole ‘inta town quietly and to this day no official arnouncement has been made of his ap- pointment @s an official of the company. Whether he will be assistant to the presi- dent or take upon himself the arduous duties of an operative official is conjec- ture. The latter seems the most probable in view of the fact that he has been de- voting so much' time to learning the exact condition of the road. The auditing department is also very shaky. The head men of this branch of the Southern Pacific are supposed to have incurred . the displeasure of President Hays. George T. Klink, auditor of dis- bursercents. and C. J. Wilder and E. E. Holden are all supposed to have been tak- ing things very easy, and those who pro- fess to know circulated the report yester- { day that there would be a general clean- out in the auditing department in the near future. Picking Up Information. It is sald that Hays has also Nad a watch put on all the.division superintend- ents, and that those who have been de- talled for this duty are not traveling on passes, but are paying their fares to avoid detection. They are supposed to be on all parts of the Southern Pacific system and are sending in reports and at the same time familiarizing themselves with the road previous to taking up other du- tles. . Great excitement prevailed yesterday in all departments of the Southern Pacific. Bells rang, office boys were dispatched with messages and the different cliques held councils of war and laid plans to strengthen their positions. Stubbs was the most sought after man, and after lunch he ‘was met by Herrin and Chief Ergineer Hood and asked by them to give the latest news about Harriman. Stubbs is. a very influential man in the railroad world and the local general officers of the company will greatly regret his departure, ‘With Stubbs in Chicago, the man who will in a measure fill his place in this city is Passenger Traffic Manager E. O. Mec- Cormick. Hawa wham ta < expected to say much. He never does that, and when members of the press ask him embarrassing questions he returns evasive answers or gracefully replies with a suggestion that this or that is not of interest to the general publle. Although Mr. Herbert gave out that he would be in San Francisco but a compar- atively short time, possibly a few months at the most, he engaged permanent quar- ters at the Palace Hotel yesterday after+ noon. SRS FOLLOWS THE UNION PACIFIC. Northern Pacific .Group to Have & Trafic Manager. NEW YORK, June 20.—One of the first steps in carrying out the harmonization scheme for railroads of the Western sys- tems was taken by the Union Pacifc fam- ly of railroads in the appointment of J. C. Stubbs, formerly vice president of the Southern Pacific, to a position new in the history of American railroad systems, to which has been given the name of director general of the traffic department. Follow- ing this announcement comes news that another family of railroads, the Northern Pacific group. which is to be operated in harmony with the Union Pacific, is pre- paring a plan similar to that which the latter has adopted. Darius Miller, now second vice presi- dent of the Great Northern Railroad, has been mentioned as the probable occupant of the position. In this capacity he will represent the Great Northern, the North- ern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. The Union Pacific group, which will come under the immediate ai- rection of Mr. Stubbs, consists of the Union Paciflc, the Southern Pacific, the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Rail- road and Navigation Company. The link which connects these two immense groups is the Northern Pacific, in which both are interested. Commercial Travelers Elect Officers. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 20.—The International Federation of Commercial Travelers elected the following officers to- day: President, Edward Trevett of Utica; vice president, R. A. Cavanaugh of Chi- cagb; secretary and treasurer, Arthur L. Sheetz of Omaha; executive committee— F. E. Haley of Des Moines, L. A. La- beaune of sg Louis and C. C. Danlels of