The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 65. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1502, PRICE FIVE CENTS. PHILIP WATKINS, EASTERN SOCIETY MAN, IS MUCH SOUGHT BY POLICE OFFICIALS FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC B s UPHOLDS POSITION OF CALL Views of District At- torney of Los Angeles. San FranciscoLogical Place to Try Libel Case. Trial at San Pedro Would Cause Heavy Expense. Rives Believes That Judge Fritz Will Be Sustained. LOB ANGELES, Aug. 3.—“I have al- ways felt that the'Governor’'s case should neisco is the logical place and I feel sure all parties ir trial there, as they cer- San Pedro. Pe would be glad to ility of condpicting the 1t would be very expensive to , I know, but I don’t believe i ng for that when it is a matter of preserving the dignity of the depart- ment.” he foregoing statement was made by trict Attorney James G. Rives in an w home in Dow- interv twelve ength the tc at his mi. ge libel cases. District ified his action by upreme Court did no the vital question of jurisdiction writ asked for by Gov- intimated that beneficlary parties, for the writ TO DROP CASE. s to settle the ques- ick rd be able to h legal justi- wou. € WANT! Rives declares he believes the method taken to estop Judge Fritz was inexpedient and that his appli- cation will be summarily denied. That will end the matter for his office and the case will be tried in San Fran- cisco, where he admits that he thinks it rightfully and logically should. I not allowed personal or parti- to have on my ac- Rives. “In contrz the friend: e first application I steadfastly take this action because I did t proper remedy or that 1 have ling his case, said Mr. r acted to the thereby incurred di f the Governor and a would lie. But the preme Court observed that : beneficiary party and a tion must be by the people. With his intimation I believe I only er Pros Attorney | would selves to pocu and allowing it to han Of course it might be settled in the and it all sction placed upen th decided only The section d in the place of e home of N that w interpreted mean ‘and’ there can be concurrent juris- diction, while if but bne of the places has il complaint was filed. nt passed upon, that the ution be with rea- may “I feel sure that application will be denied on Tuesday and that will end the matter for us. Dismissal of the defendants in the lower court at San Francisco would not preclude prose- cution in the Justice Court down here, though there would be no reason for reopening the case that had once been fully investigated and decided. “] think that the preliminary examina- tion will be held in San Francisco at an carly date, and 1 am considering sending some one tg attend the proceedings. There will doubtless be a full investiga- will end the matter.” HOSTS AT A SABBATH AFTERNOON RECEPTION WPORT, R. L, Aug. 3.—Mr. and Martin, who returned from wedding trip a few days ago, gave s. Peter u reception this afternoon in the Cad- wallader cottage in Bellevue avenue. As the wedding festivities were limited to relatives and intimate friends, the invi- | for this afternoon were oral and for two hours Mrs. Martin was busy re- ceiving her many friends, aided by her mother, Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs. The numerous wedding gifts received by Mrs. Martin were shown. San Francisco, for many rea- | desirous of having the case | It was | CRASHING ENGINES EXPLODE Railroad Wreck Oc- curs in Southern California. Fireman Missing and Four Persons Are Injured. Blazing Oil Destroys Cars and Ware- house. < - | MISSING. [ | T.D. Martin, fireman, prob- ably under vZeckA INJURED. William Whitesides, passen- ger. || = = cerame train engineer. C. H. Andrews, passenger train fireman. Frank Scott, passenger train | | brakeman. | G. A. Westinghouse, bag- | gageman. ! passenger Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.—While run- ning at the rate of thirty miles an hour a 2 Fe passenger train ran through open switch and crashed into an oil train which was delivering tank ears of | oft to the plant of the Coombs Refining | Company en Vernon avenue at the ex- treme southeastern corner of the city at |8 oclock to-night. The two engines were demolished and four oil cars and two coaches were wrecked. The instant the crash came a fuel tank on one of the engines exploded, setting fire to the wreck. This was immediately followed by the explosions of the other engine tanks and one of the tank cars. Botlers blew up, burning ofl was thrown in all directions and the large warehouse | of the refining company caught fire and was destroyed, as were all of the cars in the wreck except one. FIREMAN IS MISSING. D. Martin, fireman on the freight on o | body is under the wreck. | probably never be recovered, for the heat from the burning oil was so great that it bent the heavy rods on both wrecked engines and twisted the steel rails until nearly 100 yards of track will have to be relaid. The injured are: H. E. Gardiner, engineer of the pas- senger train; face badly scalded and chest, back and legs burned by being caught in a shower of burning oil which almost completely covered him. B ger train: hands and face burned and back injured by jumping from his cab. Willlam Whitesides, passenger, left arm broken. A. Westinghouse, baggageman, | shoulder dislocated and badly bruised. | [ | G | G and shoulders burned by oil. ert Guthrie, the switch and saved himself by jump- ing and then lying near the side of the track where the force of the explosions passed over him. OVERSIGHT IN .ORDERS. The passeng train was a special and | running light, t is, it only carried four | or five passeng It had been out to bring back from Redondo Beach the Sun- day crowds which went to that resort. The cause of the accident was the fact t the crew of the freight train did not know that a special passenger train as to be sent out. They had left the switch open and on the main line they had cut out a car, so that whether the switch was open or not there would have been a wreck. As soon as the news of the accident was received at the company’s offices two spe- 1 trains were sent to bring the injured | to the city. The men were taken to the Sisters’ Hospital. All of them will prob- ably recover, although Gardiner's condi- tion is considered very serious. The loss to the company consists of the values of two fine locomotives, four oil tank cars, one coach and damage to two other coaches. The 1085 to the refining company | will not excveed $3000. —_— NEWPORT EXPECTS NEWS OF ENGAGEMENT TO-DAY Announcement of the Vanderbilt- Nielson Betrothal Is Awaited. NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 3.—It seems to | be taken for granted by soclety that Miss Kathleen Neilson's engagement to Regi- nald Vanderbilt will be announced to- morrow. All doubt of its existence has | been set aside in the minds of most peg- | ple, who now look upon it as a matter of course. | To-day Miss Neilson, who is at Mar garet, in Catherine street, one of the | fashionable private hotels of Newport, was the reciplent of beautitul floral offer. ings, and it is known that various mem- bers of the Vanderbilt family now here have sent extensive orders for flowers to | be sent to-morrow. ci engine, is missing, and it is believed his | If it is it will | Andrews, fireman of the passen- | Frank Scott, passenger brakeman, face | The engineer of the freight train, Rob- saw the other train enter REBUKES ZEALOTS| Archbishop Ireland’s Wordsof Warning to Catholics. Advises Them to Let Friar Question Alone. Deprecates Attacks on the American Government. ST. PAUL, Aug. 3.—ArcRpishop Ireland, preaching to-day in the Cathedral, said: “The Apostle Paul gives this counsel, not to be more wise than it behooveth to te wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every the measure of faith. In the mind of the Apostle things most excellent, if made use of in undue measure and with- out proper regard to circumstance or time and into things perilous and hurtful. And this undoubtedly what is happening in the case of the flery zeal in defense of Catholic interests which seems to be coveting an/ explosion at the present time among certain classes of American Catholics. The interests of the church, it is said, are made to suffer at the hands of the Government in its newly acquired dependencies and the call to arms is sounded from the rostrums of | Catholic so: and through the col- | umns of Catholic papers, to the perturba- | tion of the whole Catholic body, and, in- | deed, of the whole country. The moment | ‘Be wise, one place, change is | has come to say to Catholics: | be zealous unto sobriety, and according God hath divided to every one to measure faith’—and such counsel I take the liberty to give to my hearers. POPE HAS NOT COMPLAINED. ““Who are they, who complain and pro- test and call upon Catholics to be up and {doing? Are they those who might claif to represent the church in its general or even local interest: Has the sover- eign pontiff spoken? Certainly he 'has | not complained; rather, he has been heard as from in very different tones. Have the | ecclesiastical authorities in the de- pendencies invoked our aid? In no in- stance have they so acted; where they bave been heard from, as in the case of Porto Rico and of Cuba, it was to tell us in plainest words that they had no griev- ance, although from irresponsible sources it had been on several previous occasions dinned into our ears that the church was robbed and persecuted in both those islands. “Whatever complaints have been heard come from individual Catholics or from socleties of Catholics. In either case is there warrant to represent others than the men themselves, or the societies themselves who do speak. “Most cautious at all times must Catho- ics in America be not to stir up latent prejudice and smothered animosities of which, as experience teaches, there is no small share here and there in the com- munity and which but little provocation is needed to fan into fire and flame. Bet- ter often it is to endure some suffering than to give a pretext for opposition and social turmoil. Nothing is to be more dreaded in America than hatred and war- ring among citizens in the name of re- ligion, and it behooves all classes of the ropulation to do their utmost to nurture end maintain peace and harmony; it be- hooves Catholics even more than others 10 be models of prudence and good will in this regard. The simplest approach among them to form a political party on the basis of religious interests would be fatal to those interested and fatal to pub- lic peace. It is quite easy for a few to kirdle a fire which will threaten ravage to a while community, and which a whole community will find it an arduous task té extinguish. GOVERNMENT IS JUST. “Nor is public agitation necessary in America to redress grievances if griev- ances do exist, whether such grievances have origin, as is more often the case, from mere inadvertance, or, as it more rarely happens, from malice aforethought on the part of individual officials of the government. I say it advisedly, as I am prepared to stand by what I here say, there is always surcease from grievances, so far as circumstances may allow, if it is sought through quiet and reasonable methods from the high representatives of the government. “Let justice be done to America; in no other country is there a government so fair-minded, so impartial, so willing to treat all classes with absolute justice, as that with which we are blessed in Amer- fca. “And let Catholics be careful lest, by imprudent agitation and repeated mis- trust of the government of America, they instill into the minds of many of their fellow citizens the notion that, as Catho- lics, they are disposed to form themselves into a people apart, ever dissatisfled with America and its institutions, ever ready to complain, ever anxious to find a plea upon which to rest their murmurings. The Catholic body will never prosper in America unless it be thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the country and with a. deep love for its welfare. To be one with the country is the lesson which Pope Leo is ceaselessly teaching Catholics in every ccuntry; it is the lesson which I am con- dontinued on Page Three. PRELATE : Scion of Aristocratic Fa mily of Montclair, New Jersey, Passes Worthless Checks and Makes Runaway Mar- HILIP D. WATKINS, former- ly a society man well-known in a dozen Eastern cities, the son of a millionaire and the relative of several others, is now hiding in the State of California from the officers of the law who want him for many crimes. With him is his wife, who is the daughter of one of the leading men of Omaha, Neb., and who, it is claimed, was duped into marrying him at an hour's notice. ‘Watkins’ career on this coast has been short but very brilllant. In Oakland, Santa Monica, Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco he has contracted heavy bills, thrust himself into the best society and, it is charged, passed worthless checks for large amounts right and left. He has the manners of a French Count, the ap- pearance of a man to whom dollars are like cigarettes, the nerve of a book agent and—his victims allege—no conscience at all. Henry Shonfeld, whose daughter is Watkins' wife, says he will kill the man if he meets him. The Pinkertons and the peace officers throughout the State are on his trail and if' he is caught it probable that society both in particular and in general will be protected from him for a long time to come. J. Wesley Wright, a young commission merchant of this city, who has known Waitkins and his family for fourteen years, was the unfortunate indorser of a check on the Amesbury National Bank of Ameshury, Mass., for $400. A Berkeley student pald $400 on two flctitious checks for the pleasure of knowing Watkins. An Oakland hotelkeeper says Watkins left him so hurriedly as to forget a heavy board bill. Other bonifaces in various parts of the State have also contributed toward the support and pleasure of the young man and his wife on their bridal tour. A description of the man has been read to the different watches of the police in this city and the sharpest kind of a lookout is being kept for him. RELATIONS ARISTOCRATIC. Dr. 8. C. G. Watkins, father of the much-wanted young man, is president of the National Dental Association and vice- president of the International organiza- tion. He resides in Montclair, N. J., and moves in the best of society. Philip Doremus, his grandfather, is president of the Montclair Savings Bank, which is rated at $2,000,00. Bdwin B. Goodell, an uncle, is a prominent corporation lawyer of New York City. From his childhood up young Watkins has been a social lion. He is splendidly educated and has always been in the habit of spending enormous sums of money in the pursuit of pleasure. Two years ago he left home and went to Boston, Mass. In January of last year he took a place as errand boy in a is riage With a Beautiful Young Woman of Omaha *- & —— -'l" J! N NY CITIES, THE | WILY MANIPULATOR OF FRAUDULENT CHECKS WHO IS WANTED BY POLICE IN MA d YOU]‘;G SOCIETY WOMAN WHO WAS INDUCED TO MAKE RUNAWAY MARRIAGE ON SHORT ACQUAINT- ANCE, AND A LOCAL COMMISSION MERCHANT WHO WAS CAUGHT FOR 2400. i £ = - &= Chauncy-street brokerage house in lieu of something better. A few months later he resigned from the position after borrow- ing a sum of money from the manager and then went to work in the Amesbury File Works. Early this year he returned to the brokerage house, saying that he had been a partner in the file manufactur- ing business and that his associates had swindled him out of all he had. On the strength of this story and others of ‘mpending wealth, he secured more money and on April 17 disappeared. It was then learned by the broker for whom | he had worked that several people in the concern had been victimized by his smooth pretenses. It is surmised that he thus secured enough money to pay for his ‘Western trip. ‘Watkins was manager of the Amesbury File Works for four months through the interest taken in him by Clifford A. Moore of Lowell, the owner; but he was never a member of the firm. He claimed to be a Yale graduate and is said to have caused quite a flutter in Amesbury soclety while he lasted. He showed a particular fondness for young and beautiful ladles and was much sought after. His engage- ment to Ethel Boardman, daughter of a millionaire tugboat owner and a social star, was finally announced. VILLAINY IS DISCOVERED. _ Mr. Moore visited his file works one day and found his employes very short on their salaries. Watkins was allowed to escape without punishment. He left a large number of people in mourning for money he had borrowed from them, it is rified at this news and the Pinkerton de- tective agency on this cocst was imme- While at Amesbury he was called the | diately notified to institute a search for “original shirt waist man” and showed |the couple. The young wife's father re- remarkable skill at golf and football |ceived the folllowing letter 1 few days Chief Osgood of the Amesbury police | ago: “Why do you not answer my letters? force told a Call correspondent last night | I have not heard a word from you." He that Watkins was wanted for many | had been sending (elegrams to his fraudulent check transactions in that | daughter every day, but none were ever town. The various amounts were said to | delivered to” her. Om the following day aggregate about $2000. ‘Mr. Shonfeld received another letter, Where Watkins passed his time from | Which read as follows: “Send me 320. April 17 until the first of June is unknown | You are lucky to get off so easily.” The except to probable victims he left in his | Parents of Mrs. Watkins are positive that wake-on the way from Boston to Omaha. | both communications were dictated by At the latter city he presented himself to,} their daughter’s wily husband. leading citizens as a multi-millionaire en-| On Tuesday of last week Mr. Shonfeld gaged in the pursuit of buying fruit on a | received the following letter from a prom- large scale for export. He claimed to be | inent Boston banker: “For God's sake getting §250 a month salary. After bor- | 2nd as you love her recover your daugh- rowing more money he took a train for | ter from that man Philip Watkins. [ the West. / know something of his record, and you cannot act too soon.” Miss *Maud | Shonfeld, §daughter = of | “Svitn this Jectr Wiln Saciosss & Oitiptia Henry Shonfeld, one of Omaha's wealth- | 4o 2 Boston paper, which gave an ac- iest and most respected citizens, happened count of the marriage. to be traveling westward in the same conch. Atter & fow hours scquaintance | | PROMINENT IN SOCIETY. with Watkins the girl consented to be his wife and they were married. She had | Omaha soclety for a number of years. She started with the intention of visiting her |is said to be not at all the Kkind sister, Mrs. A. L. Ball, of Ogden, Utah,|of girl from whom such an escapade but has thus far failed to reach there. | might have been expected. She was mod= Several days elapsed before word was re- | est, well bred and extremely good look- ceived from the unfortunate young lady | ing. Her father states that she has had and then it was only a brief note to the | offers of marriage from several of tha sister telling of the escapade and saying | best young men of her city. She had that the two were on their way to San | told him of these of her own accord, and Francisco. _ The relatives of Watking’ wife were hor- L Continued on Page Two. said. His engagement to Miss Boardman was canceled and he left for other flelds.