The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1901. THEIR NEPHEWS Will Adjust Affairs of Collapsed Tacoma Bank. Depositors Are Clamoring to Enow What Has Become of Their Mone Special Diepatch to The Call. TACOMA, Dec. 11.—There are several indications that George and William K. Vanderbilt will assist in settling the af- fairs of the Metropolitan Bank, which fajhcd three weeks ago vesterday. Chlef among these was the arrival here to-day of Charles McNamee, business manager for George Vanderbilt, who came direct from Biltmore, N. C., at the personal re- quest of Mr. Vanderbiit to investigate the situstion and make a thorough report on the condition of the bank's assets. These are of Jess vaule than was supposed, it be- ing said by men who claim to know that they ere not sufficient to pay more than from 10 to 20 cents'on the dollar. The b: had deposits of nearly $500,000, yet on the evening before it failed the Tacoma clearing-house refused to ad- vance more than a comparatively smaly sum on the showing of assets privately made. NoO statement of the assets has been made public d deep mystery ex- ists s to what became of.the money of the depositors. It is claimed that officers of the bank made large loans to them- selves and that some of the bank's at- taches speculated in mining, grain and other stocks. The bank's most prominent officers are Phillp Caeser, president, and Jacob Van. derbilt, assistant cashler, who are neph- ews of George and William K. Vanderbilt. ettt e B i3 24 Edition. Tirst Across the Continent By NoaE BROOKS. 20 fllustrations by Yohn, Frost, Seton- Thompson, and others. 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Myers, got off the | Sunset Limited, which left California on Saturday morning. At Silberberg Broth- ers” brokerage office he bought $840 worth | of Mexican money and a ticket from this | point to Guadalajara, Mexico. When asked by one of the police officers to | describe Myers, R. Silberberg gave a de- scription which tallied almost exactly | with that sent to the Chief of Police here by the Los Angeles authorities. In his conversation with Mr. Silberberg the stranger said he was going to the west coast of Mexico. He seemed anx- jous to catch the Mexican Central south- bound passenger train, which left El Paso at 10:10 a. m. Police Beset With Theories. LOS ANGELE Dec. 11.—Police ener- gles have been directed in the channel of following up every clew and theory which might throw some light on the where- abouts of Henry J. Fleishman. As far as definite results were obtained, the hunt proved fruitliess. The search has, how- ever, resulted in the elimination of se rentrated police endeavors on two lines. hese are: First—That the fugitive left for Mexico oy way of the Sunset Limited on Satur- day morning. Second—That he did not go by the Sun- =et Limited when he was seen at the Ar- cade depot last Saturday morning, but doubled back into Los Angeles, and either is in hiding here, or has gone out of the city by the northern route, leaving by the Owl train of Saturday evening. The theory that he went by the Sunset Limited is falling into disfavor. The au- thorities have the statements of the traicmen that no man answering Fleish- man’s description was on the train. Add- ed to this the police have information that the fugitive was seen in Pasadena on | Saturday morning, and if this was the | ease he could not have been on the train. Then there is the statement of a real es- tate broker named McCord that-he saw Fleishman in Los Angeles on Saturday. Saw Fleishman on Saturday. 'W. J. Variel, an attorney, says that a man whem he has known casually for | many years told him to-day that he saw Fleishman as late as Saturday afternoon at the Arcade depot, just prior to the de- parture of the Owl. ~If-Mr. Varfel's in- formant is certain of the day on which he saw Fleishman, this would dispose of | the Mexican theory. The Owl is well patronized by residents | of Jos Angeles and _San Francisco, in | both of which cities Flelshman is widely | known to the class of people who travel by that particular train. This has driven | the " authorities back ~to the idea that | Fleishman is still in the city, and their cceptance of this theory has ied to a | vigorous search of the haunts in which he | was known. | There are many circumstances in the | case which show that Fleishman had no evident intention of getting out until Sat- urday morning, and then made his final | decision only after he had discovered on Saturday that Amalgamated Copper had dropped below the figure at which he could carry the stock. Hard Pressed for Money. There are many who believe, from the fact that he offered the stock of the Los Angeles Times as collateral for a lean no later than Friday, that he was hard pressed for money, in spite of the fact that he had previously stolen large sums from the bank. Charles Seyler Sr. has been elected | cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants’ Bank to succeed Fleishman. The appoint- { ment came to Seyler as a surprise. He will assume the duties of the position im- mediately. He has been summoned to agp- pear before the board to-morrow and to go over some matters with Mr. Hellman relative to the bank s soon d all con- | nection with his present position—that of | local freight and ticket agent for the Southern Pacific Rallway Company—and devote his entire attention to the duties of his new place. Mr. Soyler has been a resident of Los Angeles sixteen years. Previous to his coming hither he was traveling auditor for the Southern Pacific, with headquarters in San Francisco. He ADVERTISEMENTS. = - 5 ) == —x) = ~ § | Marriage is very largely an accident. In few cases do men or women set up a standard of manly or womanly excellence ‘and choose by it. In most cases le o- &eep | become en; as the result of pinquity rather than because of any ‘rooted preference. ns that the wl?ePe enters upon the obligations of maternity just as thoughtlessly as she entered on the marriage relation, becapse mno one has warned her of the dangers she faces. of knowledge of themselves. It is to this large body of women that Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription comes as & ]pneela boon, because it ‘cures womanly ills. | “Favorite Prescription” establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals ymation and ulceration and cures 'female weakness. 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DATAGING TO HUSBAND Santa Clara County’s Sheriff Knowledge of the Murder oner Intimates That a Love Affair Led to the Tragedy o i Arrests Woman Suspected of of Joseph Griffiths and Pris- | { | AN JOSE, Dec. 11.—Mrs. Margaret Allen, who, with her husband, Charles Allen, is suspected of complicity in the murder of Joseph Grifiths in Grass Vallex, was arrested in the Western Hotel at noon to-day by Sheriff Langford. As was ex- pecleg the arrest of the woman bids fair to speedily clear the mystery that cloaks the killing of Griffiths. While she denied knowledge of the tragedy her first state- ment supplied a clew that offers a motive for the removal of Griffiths. Mrs. Allen declared that she had left home because her husband was enamored of Rosie Hayes, 2 woman who conducts a resort near Grass Valley. Incidentally she de- clared that Grifiiths was her husband’s rival for the affections of Rosie Hayes. This rivalry may have led to the crime which was uncovered several days ago When the body of Griffiths was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft at the rear of Charles Allen’s dwelling. Mrs. Allen is a plain looking woma! about 32 years and very shabbily dr E She came 1o this city yesterday afternoon from Oakland and registered as Mrs. Smith. When arrested she was preparing to take a position at housework in a Len- zen avenue residence. At first she deniea that she was Mrs. Allen, but subsequent- ly_admitted her identity. “Mrs. Allen denies all knowledge of the murder of Griffiths, and says_she knows her husband is not guilty. Because of the jealousy and cruel treatment of her husband and the attentions he paid _to Rosie 'Hayes, she says, she' ran away from home about four weeks ago. That night and the next day she walked to Marysvilie. She remained there three weeks. There she met Richard Bennetts. She borrowed some money from him- and the two came to Oakland. She then left him. When told she was charged with hav- ing guilty knowledge of the murder she broke down and began crving, “The last time I saw Griffiths,” said Mrs. of Allen, “ a few days before he disap- peared. My husband and I were in_the arden pulling up some weeds when Grif- fiths came along. My husband spoke to him and asked him where he was going. Griffiths said ke had been on a spree.” Mrs. Allen said she had left her husband once before because of the attentions he paid the Hayes woman. At one time she had been a friend of Rosie Hayes. Her husband and Griffiths frequently met at the woman’'s home, and she had been warned that the men would have trouble, Mrs. Allen's sister, Mrs. Kitto, had told her that the two would fight and she would “lose her husband.” Mrs. Allen declares her belief that the Indians killed Griffiths, because of the breaking up of the home of Toley Durgie, their chief, by Griffiths. After Griffiths’ disappearance Mrs. Allen says she had heard that Griffiths, with two Indians, had been seen together near Grass Valley. Allen’s Boys Make Confession. Sheriff Getchell of Nevada County, who arrived here this evening to take Mrs. Allen back to Grass Valley, has given the first intimation regarding the evidence in his possession. He says the mystery has been in the employ of the railway company for more than thirty years. Fleishman’s Female Companion. BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 1.—The identity of the handsome woman in black who was in company with H. J. Fleishman, the defaulting cashier of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Los _Angeles, during his visit to this city on November & last has been esiablished. She proves to" be Mrs. Marie V. Cunningham, a “beauty doctor” of Los Angeles—the woman whom the Los Angeles authori- ties have questioned as to her knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing man. The couple kept close company during thier stay in this city and Mrs. Cunning- bam was introduced to some of Fleish- man’s friends. Those in Bakersfield who were well ac- quainted with Fleishman and who were slow to believe that he was guilty of a defalcation have now arrived at the con- clusion that the situation is as bad as it has been painted. The visit of® Fleishman and his female companion to this city is now freely discussed. However, the idea is not entertained that Mrs., Cunningham was in any way responsible'for the cash- jer's criminal act. Instead, it is said she would have advised against any such pro- cedure, and, besides, it is said she had no claim on'Fleishman further than that of one friend upon another. Downfall Not Due to Women. A merchant of this city, who was reared with Fleishman and is in a position to know something concerning his tempera- ment, says that in his opinion no woman had anything to do with the crime com- mitted by the cashier. “Wall street led him to the act,” he saild. ‘“Wall-street speculation alone is re- sponsible for his undoing. Fleishman was a man who was fond of woman's com- pany, but he was not a man who would aliow himself to become entangled in an affair with a woman which would eause him to steal the amount of money he is accused of taking. “The fact that Mrs. Cunningham was in company with Flelshman in this city at the time he was called here as a wit- ness in the Forsythe forgery case has no significance, so far as the theft is .con- cerned, Mrs. Cunningham had no power over him which would place him in any financial difficulty. His trouble was brought about through his speculations.” At the close of the Forsythe case, on the afternoon when Fleishman was here, he and Mrs. Cunningham and a gentle- man of this city were seen driving. When Fleishman departed for Los Angeles the woman also left, saying that she was go- ing to San Francisco. BALKS AT MARRIAGE, THEN DESERTS HUSBAND Girl Who Reluctantly Becomes a Bride Flees From Her Home the Next Day. TACOMA, Dec, 1lL.—Although married on November 29, John Aust of Boysfort has been unable to enjoy his wife’s socl- ety for more .than a few hours. His bride was Miss Olene Oveson. They had been | | I i ks | i WOMAN WHO MAY TELL HOW | | JOSEPH GRIFFITHS MET HIS | | DEATH. | | * | has been solved, and Griffiths’ murderers | will be punished. Two sons of Charles | Allen, aged 12 and 14 vears, have given | evidence, it Is said, that may convict | their father and the Indian, Tolfe Durgie, | of the crime. i Sheriff Getchell has been busy hunting | the suspects since the finding of the body of Griffiths, and the Grand Jury has been | busy gathering evidence. This shows, 50 | the Sheriff claims, that Charles Allen and the Indian Kkilled 'Griffiths and that Mrs, | Allen was ‘a witness of the murder. | On the day of the disappearance of | Griffiths, April 15 last, the latter called at the home of the Allens in the after- noon, but left after a short stay. He re- turned, however, between 4 and 5 o’clock ! in the evening with a jug of whisky. Just what occurred is not known, but a night of revelry was passed by Allen, Griffiths, | the Indian, who had come in later, and | Mrs, Allen. It is supposed the party be- | came intoxicated and a fight ensued, | probably because of the jealousy of Al len, In the combat Griffiths was killed, and Alien and the Indian carried (he | body to the old shaft, which is about forty | feet back of the Allen house. This is the | theory Sheriff Getchell evolves from the | evidence in his possession. Bennetts’ Share in Case. The twe Allen boys have been before the Grandl Jury and they have broken down, told the storf of the night's de- bauch, and given evidence against Allen, Durgié and their mother. They have been ordered into the custody of the court, o be_held as witnesses. Sherift Getchell says Mrs. Allen is a crafty woman. He declares that she left Grass Valley and went to Marysville with Bennetts in a wagon and then to Oak- land, and that Bennetts intended to join her fiere. The Sheriff will take both back to Grass Valley to-morrow. lovers for months, but were separated re- cently when the young woman went to Napavine, ten miles away, to become a companion in the family of a married friend. She set Thanksgiving for their wedding day, and Aust made elaborate preparations for the event. He procurecd a marriage license showing him to be 22 and the girl 19 years old. The girl's step- | father accompanied him and they had the written consent of her mother. Wher Aust drove to Napavine for his bride she suddenly balked and declined to accompany him back to Chehalis to be married. The next day friends of both went down to Napavine and Olene con- sented to have the ceremony performed. Aust then drove to Napavine for a sec- ond time and she returned with him. { " Arriving at Chehalis the girl again de- clined to be married. The next day she changed her mind and the couple were married by Rev. Mr. Monfort of the Presbyterian church. She answered the marriage questions clearly and firmly. On the day following Mrs. Aust declared that she preferred living in Napavine and returned there with John Curtice, with whose family she had been living. She told her husband she would get her cloth- ing at Curtice’s and return to him. Tkis she has not done. Yesterday Aust went to Napavine and served formal notice on the Curtices to cease illegally de;amlng his_wife. LAWSON MAKES CHANGES IN TRINITY COUNTY General angn‘—E. A. Keller and His Staff Are Asked to Step Out. REDDING, Dec. 11.—The hard “bear- ing” of Amalgamated Copper stock, with the reported heavy losses of Thomas W. Lawson, may have had something to do with the retirement in this countv of General Manager H. A. Keller and the officials of his staff on the Trinity Copper Company, a Boston corporation at the head of which is Lawson, and which is installing an immense copper mining and smelting plant in this county. Perhaps the state of Amalgamated Copper had nothing to do with the sweeping changes of the Trinity Company olflcrnls, but %fi. tain it is that the announcement to-day of the retirement of Keller and his staff has created more local interest tnan any mining news in this district since the sale of the Bully Hill mine to Captain De Lamar. No cause is given for Kellerjs dismissal and no successor has yet been appointed. It Is sald .the development of tge com- pany's mings was not satlsfactory to the irectors. One of the directors, Louls Auerbach, arrived here on Monday from the main office in Boston. To-day he announced that the retirement of Keller and his assoclates had been asked for. ————— Subscribe for The Daily Call for a period of six months and you will be entitled to receive a copy of Cram’s Superior Atlas of the Wozld, edition ot 1901, at the premium rate of $1 50. I 3 | ful_watch for the Matteawan. MATTEAWAN GOES DOWN -~ WITH CREW Indians Find Wreckage of Big Collier Near Flattery. Little Hope for the Thirty- One Men Who Sailed on the Vessel. L T Name of the Craft Appears on Flot- sam Washed Up On the Beach After the Re- cent Storm. SEATTLE, Dec.'11.—It is reported from Neah Bay that wreckage with the name “Matteawan” on pieces of it has washed ashore fourteen miles scuth of Cape Flattery. The find was made about a | week ago by natives. News from the north that wreckage from the collier Matteawan has been picked up near Cape Flattery confirms the fear that the vessel has gone down with all on-board? gZl'he big steamship left Nanaimo ten da: ago, and was not spoken thereafter. " Since that time there have been terrific gales along the norti- coast, and, as the Matteawan was heavily laden, her absence soon aroused the keenest anxiety in shipping circles. This fear kept constantly increasing, and that little hope of the vessel's safety was entertained was shown by the rates of- fered for reinsurance. On Tuesday there were no quotations. | Yesterday morning 20 per cent was of- fered. Later in the day the rate went up in bounds until, at tHe ciose of busi- ness hours, 35 per cent-was the prevailing rate, with few willing to run the risk | evers at that tempting figure. James Jerome. the agent, was frequent- ly asked yesterday by relatives of such members of the crew as reside here for information about the vessel, but he had not received any advices. The Mat- teawan carried a crew of thirty-one men, but as the captain signed the majority Jerome has no record of their names. H> said: All 1 know about the crew is that Captain Crosscup, who resides in Oakland, is in com- mand. The first officer's name is Hastings, and he comes from Tacoma; Wilson is the sec- ond officer_and, I think, is a resident of this clty; the chief engineer is also named Wilson, and’ I think he resides in Oakland. I have | given special instructions to the captains of our four ships that are now at sea to keep a care- The Progreso and the Washtepaw are northward bound, and the South Portland and the Edith are coming this way. Besides all other steam vessels will keep a lookout for the delayed)vessel. The weather has been bad off the Oregan coast, and | it is probable that her machinery has broken down, We do not fear for her ultimate safety. The Matteawan was a steel screw steamer of 3301 tons net, and was bullt in 1893 at Newcastle, England, by J. Readhead & Sons. She was formerly called the Asturian Prince. The Mattea- wan was 336 feet long, 42 feet in beam and 18 feet 3 inches deep. Her cargo consist- ed of 4800 tons of coal. FINDS BARK AT ANCHOR. Tug Tyee Tows French Craft Pinmore Into Harbor. PORT ANGELES, Wash., Dec. 11.—The tug Tyee passed up the straits this after- noon_having in tow the bark Pinmore. The bark was found anchored off Grays Harbor In eighteen fathoms of water. ENDS HIS LIFE IN CATHEDRAL Resident of Truckee Kills Himself in Sacramento. Alpert Belaine Selects House of Worship as Scene of His Suicide, b Special Dispatch to The Call SACRAMENTO, Dec. 1L—The great Catholic Cathedral tower had scarcely ceased reverberating the Angelus this morning when in the north portico of the building a man was found lying in a pool of blood, with a bullet hole through his head and a tightly clenched revolver in his hand. He was breathing faintly and a few hours after his removal to the Re- ceiving Hospital he died without having returned to consciousness. Documents on his person indicated that his name was Albert Belaire and his home Truckee. In one of his pockets were found a number of leaflets explanatory of the teachings of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, Belaire was about 45 years of age and of fine physique. He was a Knight of Pythlas and the local lodges have taken charge of his body. A singular feature of the case is that the revolver, when released from his grasp, showed that one cartridge had been discharged and that the hammer had then passed three cartridges without making an indenture upon any cf them. It has | been learned also that nobody heard a pistol shot near the cathedral this morn- ing, while one was heard there about 11 o’clock last night. It is thought to be probable that Belaire entered the rotunda at that hour and shot himself and that his almost lifeless body lay there undis- covered until this morning. TRUCKEE, Dec. 1l.—Albert Belaire, who committed suicide in Sacramento, h: lived in Truckee for twenty years, an during most of that period has been head sawyer at Schaffer’s sawmill. He had always borne an excellent reputation and was a member in good standing of Sum- mit Lodge No. 54, Knights of thias. @ ciilimiiuinilmininfoduinieinininil @ Both anchors were out and held firmly. She had one sail set. There was not a living soul aboard. Two boats were gone, having been used by the crew in leaving the ship. Her load of ballast was shifted until she lay nearly on her beam ends. The Tyee did not stop here with her, but the tug Ploneer called in to wire to the Puget Sound Towboat Company for instructions as to where to take her, and she was towed on up the Sound. The Pinmore is the bark that was aban- doned by her crew off Grays Harbor, seven seamen perishing through the cap- sizing of a small boat in which they at- tempted to reach shore. ABERDEEN, Wash.,, Dec. 11.—The of- ficers and surviving members of the crew of the bark Pinmore, which went ashore north of here on_ Wednesday, left for Portland to-day. The men lost everything they had except the clothes they wore, and suffered greatly from exposure and | want of food. The schooner Maid of Orleans, from this port to San Francisco, lost her deckload of lumber in the recent storm, and several of her crew narrowly escaped being washed_overboard. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11.—The schooner W. S. Phelps, understood to be on her way | to the Galapagos Islands on a trip of ex- ploration, came in this afternoon from sea in distress, having sprung a leak, which | the crew was not able to locate and stop | from the inside of the hull. She drnpged anchor some distance down the bay, but will come up to be beached near the San- ta Fe wharf to-morrow. Raining in San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11.—Rain began fall- ing at 10:3) o'clock to-night. The pros- | pects are for an all-night storm. i | Francisco. well made E turn your risk. HBine asking. 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Real Estate owned by Company. 563,700 00 on Bonds and Mortgages. 280,157 64 Cash Market ue of all Stocks and Bomds owned by Company. 2,262,825 00 Amount of Joans secured by pledge of Bonds, Stocks, and other mar- Kketable securities as collateral 181,100 00 Cash in Company's Officy Cash in Banks. Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans....... 7% 30 Interest due and accrued on Bonds and Mortgages 6,913 34 Premiums in due Course of Collec- mpan| Insurance on losses already paid.. . 8,102 08 Advances on unsettled Marine Losses 5,078 35 Bllls Receivable 500 Total Assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid........... $32,008 30 Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense . .. 187593 Losses resisted, inciuding expenses. 5325 00 Groes premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $1,153,362 38. reinsurance 50 per cent. 578,681 4 Gross premfums on Fire Risks run- ning more than one year, $1,463,- 609 40; reinsurance pro rat 744,333 50 Gross premiums on Marine and I land Navigation Risks, reinsurance 100 per cent .. mIsa Gross premiums on Ma; me Risks, $137,814 95; reinsurance 50 per cent 68,907 47 Spectal depos 4,759 53 to become due. Marine bills payable. Total Liabilities .. INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fires ..»;fl-m.fl! 6 mmums Net cash actually received for i remiums Recelvad for interest on Bonds and - e s o Recelved for interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans, and from all other sources. Recetved for Rents. Total Income . EXPENDITURES. Paid for Salaries, Fees, and other tharges for officers, clerks. ete.... Paid for State, National and Loeal 257,301 48 23,017 74 taxes ... ey VY All other payments and expenditures 191,008 91 Total EXpenditures ..............i8,099,200 16 Losses incurred during the year...... 31191457 64 Risks and Premiums.|Fire Risks. | Premiums. Net amount of Risks) written during the r X yea $192,755,941 | $2,316,507 28 Net am expired during thel year .. 167,293,911 | 1,982,621 43 Net amount in force December 31, 1600....| 217,250,306 | 3,616,932 23 Risks and Premiums.| Mar. Risks.| Premiums. Net_amount of Risks ] sonsens2 | s9e2,050 30 et expired durls the) ’2! o .| 108,524,793 | 831,061 38 December 31, 1900....| 4580,435 | 161,180 43 WM. J. DUTTON, Prest. LOUIS WEINMANN, Secy. .ub-u'lbod’ and mflmn to before me, this isth of January, e ANDREW J. CLUNIE, Weekly Call, $1 per Year