The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1902, Page 1

e | | to be taken from | the Li s pr——— JINS § e o Orary.+*+* VOLUME XCII— 163 VENTURAS REOPEN LEGAL STRIFE FOR THEIR CHILD Many Prominent Californians Appear Witnesses in as ES MOINES, némes of Governor A. B. Cummins, President Jordan of Leland Stanford Univer- sity, Justice-elect Angellotti of the California Supreme t and many others of almost equal te appear as witnesses testifying .o the good racter of a father in a sensa- t for the custody of a pretty Nov. 9.—The - nine-year-old miss, whose father is Pro- fessor Louis D. Ventura, an eminent lin- Raf. Cal, and whose auty, is now Mrs. E. retired business man after having achleved e of social prominence in this ago, suddenly startled so- utually seeking a divorce. osed to be supremely hap- 1 abundance of this world's extraordinary feature of the vorce, which was granted to the wife on the ground of cruel and inhuman treat- ment, without contest, was that the cus- f the child was awarded the father. er went to San Francisco and the to Minneapolis, where she soon t other WIFE REOPENS THE CASE. The incident was forgotten locally until e months ago, when press dis- ps announced that Mrs. Conrad had kidnaped her child in San Rafael, eluded ifornia officers cleverly and succeeded aching Minneapolis with the child, om pursuit because r refused to issue papers for her arrest t move occurred two weeks ago, 7 filed application in dification of the nting her custody pported her appl rom Governor Cum Everist Cathell, a cler- in Des Moines, two ex: stices of the Supreme Court and a zen t bankers and club men, certifying to her excellent character her fitness and ability to have the the child ng Minneapolis men a ess men swore to lar statements. VENTURA MAKES ANSWER. r has filed Bis answer, access to it was not had until yester. '€ to an effort to permanently In this answer he alleges unfit to care for the child, reasen that her conduct wasm- proper in the extreme prior to his mar- subsequent thereto. He asserts nt society men A elsewhere, were the gay compan- tches Cs Goverr a- of Minn he me s wife ment to suppress these facts that induced his wife to grant him the custody of the child the time of the divorce and that es with reluctance now, only wants their little girl tells of his occupation in as a teacher of modern s that he has had the child vided her with a good had afforded the unities he received a letter Ventura's sec- ting th he did ee the child and did not his roof. Ventura of makes tk exhibit in the case. SAYS SHE MALIGNED HIM.? Mrs. Conrad and that he p between her hter, and that Mrs. Conrad He charges that she tried to destroy t E. A. Conrad is a resources, and that H. C. Mulford, is moderate home for at Mulford has he is desirous that ve the custody of 0 set out of t ia from C visited that if alifornia she could Conrad n there and mot return to his home. In a second affidavit Ventur: while he and his wife were sojourn- t Neenah, Wis., he intercepted a letter directed to her from Otis Colburn, who was then the editor of a Milwaukee in which Colburn deplored her inarriage to Ventura. Ventura testi- fies that he replied to this letter. In re nse Colburn wrote a letter of apology MAKES MANY ALLEGATIONS. Ve testified that soon after th @ CRISIS DRAWING NEAR IN THE FRENCH STRIKE 9.—The Government ewspaper, PARIS, taking prévautions to handle another out- break on the part of the striking miners 1 the decision reacned last night continue the strike be followed by viclence. Troops were active in the min- ing regions throughout the day, but no serious disorders ported. The authorities believe that the crisis in the strike is near and that the next twenty-four hours will settle the question whether the men hold their de- cision to continue the movement or strag- gle back to the mines. Following the decision of the miners’ congress to continue the strike there were sorderly occurrences in Lens (Pas de Calals) last night. The cavalry charged repeatedly a crowd of 15,000 riotous miners #nd succeeded In preventing them advanc- vg. Considerable minor damage was is ¥one. At Courrieres (Pas de Calais) houses of non-strikers were sacked and a number ©of coal wagons were burned. - whose | He says it was his agree- | ng her in the Do- | visiting | not | rts among his | s the contents | swears | have as yet been re- | &+ ! { Jom1ZLARD AND BRATT 1 the Case. LILLIAN VEN TURA + NOTED LINGUIST AND MAGAZINE WRITER, HIS FORMER WIFE AND THE DAUGHTER FOR THE CUSTODY OF WHOM THEY HAVE AP- PEALED TO THE IOWA COURTS. % | marriage his wife told him . that John Alexander Arctander, a Minneapolis law- | ¥er, had insured his life for her benefit. Ventura says that he compelled his wife | to return the policy to Arctander. Ventura alleges that while he and his wife were in St. Paul they lived in the Hotel Barteaux, and that while he was absent on business he learned that E. A. Conrad, the woman's present . husband and who had been one of her admirers before her marriage, had called on Mrs. Ventura in her rooms. He says he cen- sured his wife for this. She became an- gry, and taking their child went to the home of a Mrs. Floyd, at 884 Ottawa ave nue, West St. Paul, where she remained for several days. Affiant says that Mrs. Floyd had shield- ed his wife for a number of years, and that it was at her house that she had first met Arctander before his marriage to her. TELLS OF FLIRTATIONS. | | In another affidavit Ventura swears that | Paul, | | Mrs. Ventura, while' living in St. | annoyed him by flirting with other men. He charges that she was such a persist- ent flirt that at times she gave the child narcoties so that it would sleep while he was away from home and she could leave the ropms to carry on her flirtations. In reply to the affidavits of Dr. Cathell. rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Ventura says: “I knew Dr. Cathell was of a convivial disposition and was termed a lady’s man A clash between strikers and gendarmes | and cavalry is reported from Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dome). It was not at- tended by serious results. From some mining centers it is reported | that some of the miners are likely to re- | turn to work to-morrow in spite of the de- | cislon of the congress to the contrary. { Prominent Physician Dies Suddenly. CHICAGO, Nov. 9—Dr. Robert Newton | Tooker, one of the prominent physicians | of Chicago and president of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Asxociation, died suddenly to-day of apoplexy. When a ser- vant found his body lying on the floor in the bathroom the physician’ had appar- ently been dead several hours. Dr. Tooker, who was 61 years of age, was well known as a writer on medical gub- Jects. g P Chinese Rebel Against Taxation. PEKING, Nov. 8.—A rebellion against taxation to meet the indemnity China is to pay to the powers has broken out in the southwestern part of Chill province. Troops have been sent to suppress the dis. orders. and was more worldly than spiritually inclined, and T would not have received him into my household if he had called. 1 advised Mrs. Ventura to attend to her household duties and not follow the crowd to the church of this reverend divine.” CALIFORNIA WITNESSES. Rev. C. Hitchcock, president.of Hitch- cock = Military Academy, San Ra- fael; William H. Atkinson, pastor of the First Coérgregational Church, San Rafael; John T. Egan, rec- tor of St. Raphael's Catholic Church, San _Rafael; S. M. Augustine, San Francisco banker; Hugh C. Gorley, a San Rafael merchant; George J. Buck- nall, a San Francisco doctor; P. A. Mor- bio, a San Francisco lawyer; F. M. dn- gellotti, a Justice-elect of the California Supreme Court; A. W. Foster, president of the California and Northwestern Rail- way; T. J. Crowley, a San Francisco law- ver; David Starr Jnrrl'n. president of Le- land Stanford Jr.’ University, and a num- ber of other residents of San Francisco and San Rafael testify that Ventura Is a man of good moral character and of extraordinary accomplishment. There are affidavits from Llewellyn Christian, senior warden of St. Mark's Church, Minneapolfs, to refute the claim of Mrs. Conrad that she is a regular at- tendant upen that church, and from Fred B. Dodge, a Minneapolis lawyer, who gives it as his opinion that the child has been coached to make declarations in fa- vor of its mother, | \ DAUGHTER OF A FARMER FALLS HEIR TO A FORTUNE HIAWATHA, Kans.,, Nov. 9.—A letter written to a local paper announces that an old man who recently died in Seattle left an estate worth $1,000,000 to Lizzie Boyce of this county because she had shown him kindness when he. was in sore need years ago. The letter was written to the paper in the hope of finding the young woman. . Lizzie Boyce is the 24-year-old daughter of Elijah Boyce, a farmer, who lives near Hiawatha. Miss Boyce took the news of her inheritance calmly, stating that she would believe it when she saw the money. She remembers the old man, or the one she presumes is referred to, very well. “About seven" years ago, early in the fall,” said‘she, “an old man and womsn traveling in a wagon stopped near our house. I went out to see them and found the old man moaning by the side of his wagon. He was sick, and I doctored him as best I could. He thanked me pro- fusely on starting and took my name, saying I should hear from him' some day."” a | York making a canvass. SPEAERSH FGHT OPENS THRIFF Wi Result Will Show Strength of the Factions. President Will Take No Hand in the Contest, Littlefield Regarded as an Anti-Administration Leader. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. ‘W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.<Under cov- er of the contest for the speakership of the Fifty-elghth Congress, the great struggle over the trusts and the tariff that threatens the autonomy of the Re- publican party is now under way. Whether legislation shall be passed curbing the trusts and providing for the publicity of great corporations, and whether an amendment to the constitu- tion centralizing Fedetal power over State corporations shallbe started on 1its long and difficult career, may depend upon the outcome of the contest now un- der way between six or seven ambitious Representatives. £o, too, may the question as to whether the tariff shall be ‘disturbed and modl- fied to meet the demands made by both the East and the West depend upon the outcome of this Speakership fight. If one of a certain class of candidates should win it undoubtedly would be regarded as a triumph for the Americn Protective Tariff League and for the “let-well- enough-alone” embodied in Senator Han- na’s advice to “stand pat.” POLICY OF THE PRESIDENT. There are some who would make it ap- pear that this contest for the speaker- ship invelves nothing else than the am- bition of a half-dozen men, more or less, to' 1l Speaker Hendersor’s shoes. Bul 1hs “oktést 15 brogeerarid: deper—than that, since it is perfectly well known that it will be the policy of the admin- istration to meet the trust question with legislation; to give Cuba reciprocity, and, possibly, also, to remedy some of the defects of the present tariff, where schedules are prohibitive instead of pro- tective. No “stand pat” candidate could afford to favor any of these things. President Roosevelt is not taking any part in the fight for Speaker. He will tell all of the candidates that they are equally his friends. All of the candi- dates in turn are declaring they are Roosevelt men and a point that proba- bly will have weight as a determining factor in the struggle will be: Which of these candidates for Speaker will be of the most help to the administration in putting the party into shape for the great Presidential battle of 19047 VIEWS OF THE ASPIRANTS. The candidates for Speaker, so far as the tariff issue is cvoncerned, embody all of the different classes of protectionists. Representative Joseph W. Babcock of ‘Wisconsin undoubtedly stands as the most rational of all exponents of a pro- tective tariff. to continued Republican success that the party should get away from certain schedules that are now prohibitive and modify duties so as to reduce the price of the articles to the consumer. Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania represents the ultra sky-.igh protection- ists. It is also believed that if Dalzell should be elected Speaker the President's policy of legislation in regard to the trusts would receive a setback, as Dal- zell'’s candidacy typifies the trusts as well as the prohibitive tariff. Representative Cannon of Illlnois= who is still the leading candidate for Speaker, to a certain’ extent, also represents the “stand-pat’’ policy. But he comes from a district overwhelmingly in favor of the President, and if he did not sustain Roosevelt in everything the President wanted it is doubtful if he could be elected. LITTLEFIELD'S CHEANCES. Representative Payne of New York is not regarded as a strong candidate for Speakbr. He insisted on entering the race, however, which probably will pre- vent Representative Sherman of New It is believed Sherman will at the proper time throw his influence to Representative Cannon. Representative Littlefield of Maine is regarded as the anti-administration leader in the House on the subject of Cuban reciprocity. He has strong views on the trust question, and, if he had the President behind him, could go into the House and make a winning fight. CHICAGO TEACHERS VOTE TO JOIN LABOR’S RANKS Decide to Apply for Admission to the Lake City’s Central Federation. CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—The Chicago Teach- ers’ Federation voted to-day to enter the ranks of union labor and will ask for admission to the Chicago Federation of Labor. The decision was reached after a four hours' session in the Art Institute. Labor men say. that the teachers will be welcomed into the central labor body. At the start there was some difference of opinion relative to the desirability of 80 radical a move, but when Miss Jane Addams of Hull House expressed her be- lef in the wisdom of the plan most of the doubters were convinced and vote in faver of a petition for admission to the federation was nearly unanimous. He belieVes it is essential | PRICE FIVE CENTS. . RIFLE IN HANDS OF BOY "DEALS DEATH TO A GIRL Miss - Eleanor Kelly Accidentally While Riding With Friends. Killed + ITTLE did pretty Eleanor Kelly know yesterday-morning when she left - her father's <home, light-hearjed and gay, to spend the Sabbath with companions, that before nightfall her life- less form Would lie on a slab at the City Morgue. Miss Kelly was shot to death by a stray bullet from a Winchester car- ried by an unknown small boy who sto>d on the mountain side trying to pick off a farmer’s pigeons. The bullet pierced the cover of the vehicle in which the girl rode and entered her head about an inch above the tip of the left ear, passing through to the brain, where'it rested in its fatal flight. The girl fell forward.into the lap of her sister Katie, whe sat be- side her, blood oozing.from the wound. She remained unconscious until she died, just before dusk in the City and County Hospital. Theilo Lendewig Jr., a bright little chap of 10 years, who was out, in the'roadway “trying to lassoo papa's fence,’. was the only witness to the shogting and his statement to the police routed the theory at first advdnced ‘that- there were cir- cumstances of mystery surrounding the unfortunate affair. It was sald a go-cart, in which two men were riding, followed in the rear of the vehicle occupied by the girl who met her death, and.that they took flight as soon as the shot was fired. | Investigation of this rumor soon proved! its falsity. | Miss Kelly, who had just passed her| eighteenth year, was the daughter of James Kelly, a foreman working for Con- tractor Hogan. She lived with her sister Katie and her parents in a neat little dwelling at 1729 Eighteenth avenue, South. According to: prearrangement, Robert Kehoe, a young man whom. the Kelly girls had known a long while, drove up to their home shortly before 10 o'clock yeésterday morning 'with Miss Flora Cummings, one of their chums, and after the lunch baskets had been loaded in the girls took seats back of Kehoe and Miss Cummings and the little party of merrymakers started down the road in pleasurable anticipation of a happy hol- iday. FALLS INTO SISTER'S LAP. A little way fram the Kelly home the party met Thomas. Bryant and Richard Mooney, two friends, seated in a go-cart. The six persons started down Rallroad avenue, their, destination being a farm- house -on the San Bruno road, where a clambake had been arranged. Mooney and Bryant, in their cart, led the way, Kehoe and the three girls following in the two-seated vehicle. Down the avenue they' jogged until they came to within a stone's throw of ‘the San Bruno Toad, ‘where they saw little Theilo playing in front of his father’'s house. BOY FIRES AT PIGEONS. Three boys, each about 14 or 15 years of age, two in knickerbockers and the other in long trousers, were coming down the mountain side. All had guns. As the vehicle rattled along it scared a flock of pigeons from Lendewig’s roof and they flew up. According to Theilo, one of the boys ralsed his gun and fired. Instantly ELEAMNOR. KELL > THEILO. LENDE /&, Se. o+ | i YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT TO DEATH YESTERDAY, PRESUM- ABLY BY A LAD WHO WAS HYNTING PIGEONS, HER SISTER AND THE MAN WHO EXPLAINS HOW TRAGEDY OCCURRED. Miss Kelly fell over. At first her com- panions thought she had fainted, although Katie said she heard a sharp noise like the clap of a hand. Theilo says the boys turned and ran as soon as the bugsy stopped. Not knowing yet that Miss Kelly had been ‘shot and thinking she had only fainted, Kehoe whipped up his horses and drove at full speed toward Green's Five- Mile House, at the fork of the San Bruno road. There the young woman was lifted from the vehicle and carried to a shed adjoining. the saloon. Kehoe ran inside and brought out a glass of ice water, which he dashed into the prostrate girl's face, hoping to revive her. Then Katie and Miss Cummings brouglt more water. ‘When they returned Katie placed her hand under her sister’s head to raise it. She was horrified at the sight of blood flowing from the wound in the head. They quickly carried the unconsclous girl to Riley’'s Bungalow saloon, only a few paces away, and called Dr. Todd, who came over from Fourteenth and Railroad avenues. . Making a hasty examination, he found that the young woman had been shot and directed that she be taken to the hospltaj." At the hospital Drs. Blake and Mec- Elroy found that the bullet had entered the brain and that the chances of the vic- tim's recovery were remote. After giving their statements the young woman's com- panions departed and the police were im- mediately notified. Detectives €ody, Braig, Ryan and Graham and one or two officers from the Mission station were de- tailed on the case. They visited the peo- ple in the neighborhood of the shooting and, after getting their testimony, con- cluded it was a case of accidental shoot- ing. & QUICKLY RUN AWAY. Kehoe and Mooney were taken to Cap- tain’ of Detectives Martin's office, and later were released on their own recogniz- ance, the authorities being convinced that there was nothing to warrant the belief that- the shooting was premeditated. A search was begun for the small boys, the detectives working on the description given them by the little fellow who saw the sad affair. “I would know the boys if I ever saw them again,” said Thielo. “They have been: around here shooting papa’'s pigeons several times before. I saw them on the mountain this morning, just as the rigs ‘were coming along, and when the pigeons flew up one of the boys shot twice, I think. Anyhow, I'm sure he shot once. I looked in the direction of the shot and — saw smoke. Then the buggy stopped and I heard one of the boys say, ‘Come on, let’s run,” and they started off as fast as they could go. I didn't see which way they went after they turned around the hill. T didn’t know any one had been'shot until papa told me when he came home, about an hour afterward.” Thielo Lendewig Sr. says he was stand- ing In the doorway of Riley’s Bungalow saloon and saw the vehicle containing Miss Kelly coming up the road. He heard the shot fired and ‘'saw some boys on the mountainside, neag the roadway. He thought the shooting was accidental. “These hoodlums from town have been shooting my pigeons right along.,” said he, *“and I guess that in trying to kill themy they killed this poor girl.” Prdprietor Green of the Five-Mile House believes the shooting was aecci- dental from what he heard. Mrs. Green, who was in the saloon when Kehoe and the girls came in for water, sald they told stories about the affair which didn't quite jibe. “At first the man said the woman had beer’drinking and had faint- ed, sald she, “and then the girls after- ward said she had been shot.” This, however, is explained by Katie's statement that she did not know her sis- ter had been hurt until after she had come out of the saloon and had tried to raise her head. The parents of the unfortunate young woman are greatly distressed over the shooting, as is Miss Katie. She told, be- tween sobs, how she had heard the noise, as of a clap of hands, and of her sister falling over into her lap, and of the ef- forts to resuscitate her. TROLLEY CAR ACCIDENT NEARLY CAUSES LYNCHING B Policemen Are Compelled to Draw Revolvers to Protect Motor- man and Conductor. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9.—A crowd tosnight attempted to lynch the motorman and conductor of a trolley car that had struck a wagon containing twelve persons at Jefferson avenue and Howard street, in- juring eight. One, a girl, was injured in- ternally and was taken to a hespital. The others received severe bruises, but were able t6 go to their homes. A ecrowd soon collected around the wagon and some one shouted, “Lynch the car crew.” Instantly a rush was made for the conductor and motorman. Several policemen rushed to the rescue and by threats to shoot kept the crowd back until a patrol wagon could be called. The car men were then taken to the po- lice station to save thelr lives.