The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1902, Page 1

= VOLUME XCH=XO. 52, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESD JULY 29 P 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEATH FOREVER STILLS VOICE OF NOTED ORATOR General Barnes, One of California’s Greatfl None est Lawyers and Public Speakers, Succumbs to Cancer of the T h.roat s a cancer nor to be the s tongue tc | Hemorrhages SON BIDS Is GOOD-BY. family was warned that the general's end was near. During the preceding four hemorr- at 6 o’clock last even- severe of all tha the most about 4 o’clock General to rally somewhat a his life was fast ebbing, he | g tha s son, W. 8. Barnes, and warmly grasping his hand, bade him a affectionate farewell. Th gathered | yund his bedside at the end were, b his wife and two sons, Dr. Ros D. F n who had been General Barnes' confidential clerk for many years, Miss Vincent, his stenographer, who | ad also been employed in the general's ce for some time. General Barnes leaves two brothers, John 8. Barnes, a capitalist, who is at| present residing at his summer home at | and James Barnes of Hart- | »rd, Conn., and one sister, Mrs. Henry M. Baker, of New York. The funeral will take place on Thursday, and at the express wish of the deceased's wife, will be of a military nature. Ad- jutant General Stone, on behalf of the Na- | tional Guard, will order out as an escort | the First Regiment of Infantry, the Flrltl x, Mass | Most of/ his youth was spent at Spring FAMOUS ORATOR WHO D BY DEATH. AND Artillery Battalion and Troop A, Cavalry, all of that organiz : George H. Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic, with A. D. Cutler command- ing; the Loyal Legion and numerous fra- ternal socleties of which the general was 2 member will a'so attend. At a ning it had not been decided whether the body would be buried in ion. late hour last e National Cemetery at the | Presidio or cremated. BORN IN NEW YORK. William Henry Linow Barnes was a native of the State of New York, having been born at West Point, where his father occupied a chair in the United Military Academy, February 11, Stales 1836, field, Mass., where he attended school un- til he was ready for college. He chose Yale for his alma mater and was grai- uated with the class of 1855 with high honors, especially in belles lettres anrd history, for which he had an early liking. | On leaving Yale he studied law with the eminent jurist. Reuben ~H. Chapman, | afterward Chief Justice of Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and soon after moved to New York City, where he became ‘assoclated in the prac- tice of his profession with the law firm of O'Conor & Fullerton and with Joseph H. Choate. On the outbreak of the Civil War the | young barrister laid aside his books and briefs and shouldered a musket, enlisting in the famous Seventh Regiment, New York Voluntee: the defense of the national capital. After some months’ service he was promoted sergeant and sent to New York to recruit for. the Seventy-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers, the famous “Ironsides,’ with which he again served in the field. In 1863 General Barnes came out to San Francisco, where he has ever since. re- ged in the practice of law. tence and forensic ability soon ed for hi leading place among the many legal lights at the bar of the State and with it a very lucrative practice. e has been engaged in many of the mest imbortant es that (‘\‘t‘"‘ came before our courts—among which were the celebrated Horace Hawes will case and the JIfll-Sharon suit—and he was, as a rule, on the victory side. General Barnes a present constitution of California. He was one of the fifty-two non-partisan dele- gates chosen to represent the State at large. The delegates assembled in Sac- ramento in December, 1878, and completcd their work in March. 1579. Among bLis assoclates in this notable convention were ex-Senators Hager and Casserly, Joseph Hoge, David 8. Terry, Samuel M. Wilson M. M. Estee, Volney E. Howard, General | John F. Miller, Judge McFarland, Henry Edgerton, Thomas H. Laine, Joseph W. Winans znd many other public men of superior attainments. While his services could command larger fees from wealthy clients, they were often given in their fullest and best measure where not a cent was to com in return, a motable instance of which generosity was in the case of Walter Rosser, defended by General Barnes on the charge of the murder of young Hii- debrand in 1898, quittal of the son the aged father, who had mortgaged his home and little farm Continued on Page Three. ¥ | | | | remnants of her collection of jewels | | | and hurrying with it to | After the trial and ac- | 'STRONG STEALS IT ALL of May Yohe's | Jewelry Found | in Vault. | { Relieved of Half a Million. i :Swears Out Warrant for Arrest of the Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK. July 2l.—Search was made ]lalp this afternoon of the safety deposit | box in which all of the jewels and valu- | ables belonging to May Yohe { 1ast April by Putnam Bradiee | box was found to be empty, |two fans and a few trinkets cant value. | The articles stolen are believed to be | worth fully .59, rauch more than that amount having been baid for them. her loss Miss Yohe were placed Strong. The except for of insignifi- When she realized nd fainted, but recovering herself refused as her by fered | those who stood near by. | A little later she went to police headquar- | ters, where she made complaint charging Captain Strong with grand larceny. An order for his arrest was immediately sent !m every pelice station in New York. | Emanuel Friend, counsel for May Yohe, | announced that he would offer a reward of $1000 for | secrets of her life with Captain Strong | | during the last year. | he had She asserted that he had made it necessary on various oc- casi | debts. } LEAVES HER PENNILESS. Miss Yohe expressed intense bitterness | { toward the man who took her from her | husband, and asserted with great vehe- | mence that can arise which wiil reconcile her to him. She said that he found her with an independent no circumstances fortune of not less than half a million dol- | Jars and that he had left her without enough to pay next monh's rent., Fager Miss Yoka Touiki /1 ympathy and sorrow for méther of Captain Strong. Tt was a moment of intense dramatic interest when the search of the safety deposit box was made. Much difficulty had been experienced in gaining permis- slon for an investigation of the hox which had been leased by Captain Strong in the {name of Putnam Bradley. Finally the officials of the Knickerbocker Trust Com- pany decided to permit a search’to be e under certain safeguards. This per- sibn was not obtained until Albert E. | Skattuck, brother-in-law to Captain | Strong, announced that the family would | interpose no | | he heartbroken objection. Ar official of the pany opened the box deposit com- Yohe in London as curiosities, cost- irg her $47. Underneath the fans was a watch, an imitation pearl necklace, plain gold bracelet and plain gold ring. All told these articles were worth not to exceed $30 and of the lot only the ring | had sentimental value to its owner. It was a present to her from Lord Hope ana was inseribed on the inside with the ntiment: “The world is broken, but hcpe is not.”” Commenting on this latter, Aizs Yohe paraphrased it, “The world oken and so am 1" FAMILY WILL NOT PAY. any Miss Yohe took a single glance at the nd cxclaimed, “My God. he has taken eve ruined.” back would have fallen ankel extended a support- weakness was only for a thing. [ am utterly She sank and had not Mr. [ | ing He | arm. trust company she made no show of in- tense emotlon. There was a hurried and whispered eon- mother of Captain Strong. It had been understood that if it was found that only the jewels had been taken which werk known to have been pawned in this city, the relatives would make good the amount of money required to redeem them, but when it became known that he had taken fully $150,000 worth of jewelry, in addition to the stuff pawned, negotiations were | broken off. Frankel informed Friend that not believe that | sent to advance any such sum and that he would certainly advise against their | doing so. | Little time was wasted after the loss was discovered. Miss Yohe went at once to her mother, who required only a glance of I daughter's face to learn that her worst fears had been realized. The older woman began to weep silently and was cheered by her daughter, who supported her with an encircling arm and assured | her that they would get along somehow, | and that they-would not suffer in spite of ! the theft of their fortune, } At the Sturtevant House Miss Yohe be- | he did came almost hysterical. She felt the hu- miliation that had been put upon her even more keenly than she did the loss of her jewels. | SWEARS OUT WARRANT. At police headquarters Miss Yohe swore out a complaint against Strong. Captain Titus at once detailed detectives. He gave instructions for a search of the various re- sorts in the tenderloin which Captain Strong is known to have visited. The fol- lowing general police alarm was sent out from police headquarters to-night: “Leck ‘out for and arrest Putnam \Former Lady Hope Is! ance that was prof- | “ the arrest of Captain Strong. | | Tn an interview Miss Yohe revealed the | lived off her bounty ever since ! | she left her husband, Tord Hope, and that | for her to muke good his gambling | In her | e 1o express broughf into | view two fans which were purchased by | Guantity of jewelers’ cotton, then a cheap | a| raoment, then she recovered herself, and | as long as she was in the office’ of the | sultation between Friend, as counsel for | Miss Yohe, and Frankel, counsel of the | the family would con- | EVAN J. COLEMAN KILLS | HIMSELF AT HIS HOME Loss of Transfer Contract With Southern Pacific Company Affects His Mind and He Swallows Draught of Carbolic Acid | | | | | o+ PROMINENT CLUBMAN AND CAPITALIST WHO COMMIT- TED SUICIDE YESTERDAY. i A | | | : x i ‘. | | | | i | | i | | | T | cific Transfer Company, | social faverite, man of great | personal magnetism and princely in manner to all-who | had dealings with him, died last evening | from the effects of carbolic acid swai- t lowed by him. For some days Mr. Coleman had been suffering from a mental depression that | caused his brother and only living rela- tive in this city, Barry Coleman, to call in | Chester Moore, a medical student. i Mr. Coleman had been deeply affected by his loss of the Pacific Transfer Com- | pany’s contract with the Southern Paeific | Railread after Paving been connected | | with that eoncern for so many years. He | | brooded over the breaking off of ‘a léng | connection Wwith a raflroad which he had | believed must be for all time. Tn his | brooding over the change of affairs he grew morose and imaginative and ulti- mately his melancholia took the form of hallucinations until he became, without the slightest reason, certain that his sight was leaving him and he was doomed to a | life of blindness. His brother knew differently, but in the hope of dispelling the thought he had him taken to an oculist, who assured Mr. | Coleman that his sight was not in the | least impaired. He, howaver, was not | | convinced. | TRIES TO DIVERT MIND. Everything was done to | | | | cause him to | @ it Bradlee Strong, who is charged with | grand larceny. Strong is about 27 years old, 5 feet 9 inches in height, weighs about 183 pounds; is of dark complexion, | ! has dark wavy hair: is clean shaven; has military bearing, and has an aif of im- rortance in his walk.” Titus said to-night that ne be- n Captain lieved hé would have little difficuity arresting Attorney visability of publishing some of the ¢ ] | | 1 Friend is considering the ad-! I respondence that passed between rnpmnl | | | ! i ¥ i Strong and May Yohe when she was stiil | Lady Hope. ‘She told Captain Strong in her letters that it was her desire to make Lord Hope a good wife. In the end sie \vielded to the persuasions of Captain | Strong. who. time and again, assured her | that he would commit suicide If she did | not give nerseli to him. These letters. Friend said, are now in | the possession of Miss Yohe, and she will | make them public if any attempt is m to place upon her the blame for the ailiance. i Pawn ticke's calling for $100.000 worth | of the missing gems have been re- covered. } the motorman turned on :he pow 1 Lelieve that he was in as good health | as he cver was, and his attendant took him on the cars for daily outings with instructions to make the unfortunate | man’s life as cheerful as possible so that | he might forget his imaginary sufferings. | Yesterday ‘morning Moore accompanied’| Mr. Coleman on,a car ride, and again In | the afternoon, returning to the house, 1490 Sacramento street, at 6:30 o’clock. | Deceased went straight to his room, and Barry Colemfan called Moore to his room } and asked how his brother had been dur- | ing the outing. being anxious to now | whether there was any fmprovement his condition. About five minutes later Moore went to the deceased’s room but found that he was mot there and went | back to Barry Coleman. They thought nothing about Evan absenting himself from “his room, since it was his habit to wander from one room to another, but when a quarter of an hour or thereabouts had gone by without any sign of him | they made a search of the house. DEAD IN BASEMENT. in In the basement the demented man's lifeless body was. found lying near a table on which 'stood a hottle, which from the odor they determined had urn- mistakably | contained carbolic acld. | Dr. David Barger of Bush street, who had attended the deceased for ten years, was instantly summoned but his services were not needed. Deceased. was born October 3, 1841, near Cincinnati and at an early age was faken RUSSELL SAGE BARELY ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY Noted Millionaire Is Dragged by a Broadway Car and Rolls on His Back. NEW YORK, July 21.—Russell Sage| narrowly escaped serious injury m-d.-i while attempting to board a Broadway | car. Happening so soon after his recent illness. his friends feared that the shoclk might have a lasting effect, but Mr. Sage | attended a directors’ meeting and appear- ed at his office later, showing no signs of | his mishap. Mr. Sage was on his way from his office to the Western Union bullding about 1 o'clock when the accident occurred. Accompanied by his secretary, Mr., Henges, he reached the cormer of Broadway and Cedar street as a north- bound car stopped to take on passengers. Mr. Sage was near the rear end of the car and had just mounted the step when The ar started so suddenly that Mr. Sage was hurled to the .ground. He clung to the hand rail and was dragged about ten feet before ‘he let go and rolled over on his { he spoke of the change to Leuisville, where he studied for some little while and was then sent to the Uni- veisity of Penasylvania’ -He vead law under Benjamin Gerrard. In 1864 he went to Europe but returned and finished a law course at Harvard, after which he went to Paris, where he married Miss Lucy Gwin, daughter of Senator Gwin, and came back to America with his bride in the year 1869 and cast his fortume in San Francisco. Then it was that he joined Dr. Gwin in.the management of the Gwin mine and held the posiiion of manager for several years. On his resigning ' the management of the mine he and J. Henley Smith became proprietors of the Pacific Transfer Com~ pany, with which he was connected until May 1 last. Mrs. Coleman died several months ago. and deceased felt his loss keenly. He was a brother of the late Captain Thomas C. Coleman of Louisville, who died In De. | cember, 1901, and who was for many years connected with the steamboat traffic, be- ing assoclated with the New Orleans and Cincinnatl packet lines. DEATH CAUSES SORROW. Evan J. Coleman was a well-known member of the Pacific and Bohemian clubs and a frequent visitor to Monterey during the summer season. The news of his death caused the most profound sor- row in club circles, and -many of ths prominent business men of the city has- tened to the Sacramento-street residence to offer the bereaved brother consolation | in the sorrow that has come to him. Barry Coleman was deeply affected as that had ~ome so suddenly over his brother. He said: 1 attributed his mental trouble entirely to the loss of the contract with the Southern Paecifie Company He seemed never to have overcome the change, and from day to day he became more and more despondent until T found It nec- essary to retain an aitendant. who was in- structed never to leave him. We missed him for a while from his room, of which we thought nothing. as he was in the habit of going from one room to the other, but when he was not to be seen for fifteen minutes or so I had a search made for htm. I have no idea where He gut the carbollc acid. He must have purchased ft some time and secreted it in the basement. He had an idea mot only that his sight was leaving him, but also that he was golng deat. Of course there were no grounds for sueh con- clusions, but he would have It so. and himself sald that it was all owing to a diseased brain. The loss of that contract, his association witie a company for o many years and the bresie ing of the association has had all to do with it. back. Passengers screamed and the car was stopped. B iR ies e Dutch Troops Surprised by Enemy. BRUSSELS, July 2L—A telegram from Acheen, Sumatra, reports that the Dutch columns operating there were surprissd by the enemy. with the result that Lieu- tenant Bruyn and eleven soldiers were killed and two officers wounded. . The enemy, the dispatch says, had twenty- four killed. e S St Heavy Emigration From Ireland. LONDON, July 2L.—The final survey of the Irish census returns has been present- ed to Parliament. Tt shows that during a half century more than 3,000,000 persons have emigrated from Ireland and that $) per cent of these emigrants have gone to the United States. Pope to Make a Protest. LONDON, July 22.—Cabling from Rome, the correspondent of the Daily Chronicie says he learns that it is the Pope's in- tention to protest, probably by an emcy- clical, against the French Government's campaign against religious associations,