The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 19, 1902, Page 1

Call, VOLUME XCII-NO. 17 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MESSENGER oHOOTS DOWN TRAIN ROBAER Colorado -Southern Road Scene of Hold-up. One Bandit Is Fired Upon and Body Carried Off. Attempts to Loot the Ex- press Car Frustrated and Desperadoes Flee. TRINIDAD, Col., Nov. 18.—Four masked robbers held up passenger train No. 4 on the Colorado and Southern road, twelve miles south of here to-night. One of the robbers was shot by Express Messenger H. W. Bherwick of Fort Worth, Tex. The robbers flagged the train and as it side of the en- &l gine and covered the crew with revolvers. wed up they ran alon They then compelled the engineer, John to alight and affer placing a sack dynamite under the baggage car and ttaching a fuse to the explosive, they or- This he but for burn. dered Guiifril to ignite the fuse. sttempted to do several times, some reason the fuse would not During this proceeding the robbers kept up a fusil the train for the purpose of intimidating the passengers, they were preparing to rearrange mite and fuse, Messenger Sher- w car, quietly opened a side door in the car far enough t6 admit a gun barrel and fired at the nearest robber. The latter fell in his tracks. His startled companions pick- m up and quickly disappeared in the woods near by. County immediately organized a posse and is now in pursuit of the robbers. FOOTPAD CLAIMS TO BE FORMER SENATOR’S SON Poisoner Spokane Declares His Father Is Millionaire H. W. Corbett. EPOKANE, Nov. 18.—Harry Corbett and federate attempted to hold up a dry ir residence district of Saturday night. They were the police and Corbett made It and while there claimed lionaire H. W. Corbett United States Sena- showed intimate ac- family affairs of ex- “orbett told the Spo- a high liver and his TROOPS OF THE KING HAVE MORE REVEBSES\ British Expedition on the Afghan | Frontier Is Failing of Its Purpose. India, Nov. 18.—The Brit- to put down the uprising tribesmen on the Afghan meeting with determined op- nochy, in command imn, has been mortally w gagement with the in- | surgents and Major Beresford, the next in command, has asked for reinforce- ments | LONDON, Nov. 19.—The news of the tish check in the Waziri country has e alarm here, as it is feared mn is surrounded and that details of ‘the casualties are being withheld. MAGAZINE EXPLOSIFON KIL’LS MANY EGYPTIANS Thirteen Lives Are Lost in Accident Near the Citadel in Cairo. CAIRO, Nov. 18.—Thirteen Egyptians were killed and many injured to-day the as ult o au explosion of nitroglycerin 2 magazine situated near the citadel. B 507G 5 2 5T Stork Nears the Mackay Home. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The stork is hovering over the roof tree of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mackay’s beautiful country home, Harbor Hill, at Roslyn, Long Island, and is expected to alight in February next. Since the death of John W. Mackay, father-in-law of Mrs. Clar- ence Mackay, in London last summer, the latter has remained very quietly at Har- bor' Hill. She is now entertaining Mrs. John W. Mackay there during the ab- sence of Clarence Mackay in California, where he has gone in reference to some matters connected with the settling of his father's estate. Mr. and Mrs. Clar- ence Mackay have one child, a daughter, born about three years ago. e S0 Board Names New “Middies.” ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, Nov., 18.—Acting upon recommendations of the examining board, the Naval Academy to-day decid- ed that sixteen of the forty candidates who took the civil service examination in Washington last week were mentally qualified to enter as midshipmen. Among the number is Stephen Decatur Jr. of Portsmouth, N. H., a great-grandson of the famous American commodore of that name. Among the new midshipmen are Frederick T. Stevenson of San Francisco, Stephen W. Wallace of Salt Lake City, Utah, and N. Leroy Chapin of Pasadena, in IMRS. R. B. MOLINEUX ADMITS THAT SHE DESIRES A DIVORCE Wife of the New Yorker Recently Cleared on Murder Charge Tells of Her Mis= sion to South Dakota. ade of shots in the direction of | ick, after extinguishing the lights in his | None of the passengers | were molested. The Sheriff of Las Animas | lived in Kendrick, Idaho, | now develops that | WIFE OF NEW YORK MAN RECENTLY WHO: HAS TAKEN ‘UP RESIDENCE IN SOUTH DAKOTA FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEGINNING SUIT FOR DIVORCE. ACQUITTED OF MURDER IOUX FALLS, S. Dak., Nov. 8.—Mrs. Roland - B. Molineux today gave out in her own handwriting the following statement: t is .true that I am in Sioux Falis for the purpose of instituting ‘ri;\'m'u proceedings. I have no plans ex- | cept t I shall be a resident here for | the next six months.” Senator Kittredge, her attorney, has ed her not to talk further to news- representatives. V YORK, Molineux and his f: | ence with their ov. 18.—Roland B. her were in confer- counsel, George Gordon | Battle, to- At the close of the talk Battle made the following statement: either General Molineux nor his son | ! terrible arraignment of the nor any other member of the family will | make any statement in regard to the re. port in the press that Mrs. Roland B. Molineux has gone to Sioux Falls with | the purpose of instituting an action for | @ivorce against her huéband. “They regard it as private matter con- | cerning which no public utterance should | be made. General Molineux desires to say further that all the members of his | family have at all times treated Mrs, Roland B. Molineux with the utmost | kindness and consideration. This is his last word on the subject.” | Battle said that he had not been re | tatned to defend the divorce suit. | . | BELIEVES HUSBAND GUILTY. | Mrs. Molineux Endured Horrors Dur- ing Trial for His Sake. YORK, Nov. 18.—The Herald will | NEW | print a story intimating that Mrs. Roland B. Molineux, wife of the man recently acquitted of poisoning Mrs, Katherine Adams, became convinced of her hus- band’s guilt during Molineux's first trial. L e | FIGHTS ARE FREQUENT | IN THE NORTH OF SIAM | Troops and Insurgents Contrive to | Enliven Affairs Because of Alleged Exactions. SAIGON, French Cochin China, Nov. 18.—An insurrection has broken out in Northern Siam owing to the alleged ex- actions of the Government agents. There have been several encounters between troops and insurgents. A number of im- portant chiefs and many of the inhabl- | tants of the disturbed district have sought refuge in French territory. THIEVES FIND RICEES IN UNDERGROUND VAULTS Bank in Lisbon Is Entered and Thou- sands of Dollars Are Missing. LISBON, Nov. 18.—Thieves have broken into the underground strong rooms of the banking firm of Pelurinho and have stol- en a sum of $165,000. One of theiclerks of the bank has been arrested in connection with the robbery . % She sat by his side when the jury was being selected and again when the .law- vers were making their closing argu- ments. She did not flinch even when As- sistant District Attorney Osborne turned toward her with extended hand and ex- claimed, “There sits the motive.” In all the accumulation of horrors that followed she kept her post in the court- room. After the sentence she went to live at Ossining with General Molineux and his e, to be near the condemned man'’s cell, suffering agonies of doubt and humiliation. There were minor disagree- ments in the household, though her rela- tions with General Molineux were always cordial. In her long lonesome vigils the prosecutor kept passing through. her mind, gnd she connected Osborne’s links with circum- stances which had come within her own knowledge. Awful thoughts took posses- ! sion of her, till at last she could no long- | er conceal them. She went to the prison to have an interview with Molineux, and a dramatic encounter followed. She knew that he saw that she believed him guilty. He spoke harshly and she retaliated, giv- ing full vent to her pent-up feelings. She then read in his eye that which made her tremble. She knew that he felt that all his sufferings were due to her, and that he never would forgive her if she de- serted him. Her life in the Molineux household be- came intolerable, but she submitted to the “martyrdom” on account of her re- gard for General Molineux, who knew his son’s chances for acquittal would be jeop- ardized if her estrangement from Roland Molineux became known. But no sooner was the accused man ac- quitted than she hastened to apply for a orce in South Dakota. osfoel e % 0 o ) TRAINING SHIP CRE\/ FIGHTS AT MADEIRA London Newspaper Reports That Uncle Sam’s Sailors Had a Boisterous Time. LONDON, Nov. 19.—The Daily Mail re- ports that during the recent visit of the United States training ship Hartford to Madeira a hundred of the crew were al- lowed to go on shore for five hours, and some of them became intoxicated and in- dulged in riotous behavior. They inter- fered with a passing wagon drawn by bullocks and assaulted a well known local gentleman with sticks, severely maltreat- ing him. This incident led to bottles being thrown at the sailors from the windows of a ho- tel and some among them sustained cuts. Later the populace assumed a hostile at- titude toward the American seamen and several fled into a church to escape from the angry mob. The Hartford fired half a dozen blank shots, and subsequently the captain came ashore and decided - to stop all further leave while in port. | | leged details of anarchist machinery, are | | exposea GONFESaES PLOT3 TO KILL ROOSEVELT Woman Discloses Three Attempts of Anarchists. Chosen Assassins Die| Rather Than Slay President. Mrs. Lena Doxheimer, Con- verted to Christianity, Tells Strange Story. BN TS teh to The Calk Special Di NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Three plots to assassinate President Roosevelt, with al- in the confession of a woman | who has been converted to Christianity | at the behest of her husband, and now de- clares that she moves in constant fear of her life and needs detectives to guard her whenever she ventures from her home. This woman is Mrs. Lena Doxheimer. She lives in Hoboken. Her confession was made before the Mothers’ Club of the First Methodist Church in Hoboken and its publication ‘was authorized to- night. The woman said she became imbued with anarchistic notions in Germany and | later by Emma Goldman's teachings in | this country, but afterward she was con- | verted to Christianity. | Even after her conversion, Mrs. Dox- heimer says she was kept informed of the doings “the world of anarchy through her former associates, whom she had not dared to tell about her conver- sion and of her abandonment of their faith. It was in this way, she says, that she learned of plots to assassinate the President. The first of theése, she says, was perhaps a year ago. DRAWING OF LOTS. There was a,drawing of lots among memhers, ! Sgronp'’” to select one_for ufg‘ ork and Mrs. Doxheimer de= clares the fatal lot fell upon a young Frenchman named Moler. He lftved in | England and arrived in this country upon | . his mission about Christmas time. Mrs. | Doxheimer says she was one of those to ! meet him at the pier. After that she had! long talks with him and says she tried to dissaude him from carrying out the mandate of assassination. According to her story, he at first was | indignant and threatened to denounce her to the order, but ended by listening to her appeals. He ended, she says, by declaring that his life was aiready forfeited, that if he killed the President he would be exe- cuted, and if he weakened other members | of the order would order his death. He went back to Paris, she says, and there, in one of the boulevards, was day a certain cab accident in which the voung man lost his life. It was the young man with the mission, whose name was Moler. Her next news, Mrs. Doxheimer ss was that lots had been shaken again and hands again thrust into the black box. This time the news told of a man named Mueller or Miller, who liyed in Avenue B, Manhattan. It was at 143, 145 or 147, she isn't certain which, who drew the fatal |lot. A few days passed and she says | she heard this man had been found dead. The Coroner said poison, self-administer- ed. | one WOMAN IS CHOSEN. Again the lottery. her story runs, and this time a weman was chosen. Her name was Schroeder. She lived in Harlem and the records tell of her end by carbolic acid. Then Mrs. Doxheimer’s former associ- ates became wary at her lack of activity | and she learned no more. The group, to | which Mrs. Doxheimer belonged, she says, met in Titania Hall, on Sixteenth street, Manhattan. She says that there are about 100 meeting places of an- archists in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, several in Jersey City, several in Pater- son and some in Hoboken. From reports received, she says, anarchy flourishes most in the West.' After suspicion fell upon her, Mrs. Dox- heimer says, she was shadowed by men and women whom she knew'to be affili- ated with the society. Although not threatened, she was marked and watched. Realizing her danger, she says, she remains at home and declares that when she goes out detectives guard her way. Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service was asked about Mrs. Doxheimer’s statement in Washington to-night. He said he had no information of any plot against the President and had never heard of the weman. SERENE AND HAPPY IS BELGIUM’'S KING Small Matter of Attempt at Assas- sination Doesn’t Disturb Er- ° ratic Leopold. BRUSSELS, Nov. 18—King Leopold is absolutely unaffected by his narrow escape from assassination. All rumors concerning his abdication are ridiculous and unfounded. The King is stronger and more energetic than ever. Two hours after Saturday’s assault he was engaged in consultation with his architects over his plans for the beautifying of Brussels and Ostend. His Majesty has just bought a large block of newly built houses in this city, | man, who was UNKNOWN ASSASSIN DEALS L DEATH TO ONE SOLDIER AND SEVERELY WOUNDS ANOTHER Corporal Edmund Perrin and Private David M. Milan Are Stricken Down Near Entrance to Presidio, Within Short Distance of a Sentry, and Perrin Dies of His Injuries. E3 ORPORAL EDMUND PER- RIN of the Eighteenth Regi- ment, Light Artillery, was murdered at the entrance’to the Presidio Reservation last Monday night. David M. Mi- lan, a private in the same regiment, was badly injured and hovers between life and death at the Presidio Geheral Hospital. Both men were beaten with'a club. Milan is unconscious. The crime is shrouded in deepest mys- No motive for the murder is know ithorities are at a loss for a clew by which the murderer may be run to earth. With Milan and Perrin at the time of the murder was Alfred Rae, a private in the same regiment. His story casts a strange aspect on the affair, as he de- clares the murder was committed by one unknown to him. RAE'S STORY PLAUSIBLE. How one man could overcome three able-bodied soldiers and tihen make good his escape is hard to conceive and the authorities are not satisfied with’ Rae's story, but nevertheless the man's state- ment is made in a straightforward way and appears very plausibie. The murder occurred about 10:40 o’clock.’ The spot where the unfortunate man met. his death is about fifty yards from one of the outposts,.where a sentry was on guard, but still the watchman saw noth- ing of the struggle. “Perrin, Milan and myself had been out for a night's pleasure and were slightly under the influence of liquor when we started for the reservation,” said Rae. “We were late in arriving and wanted to get in unknown to the sentry. “When we had passed the sentry on watch, whom we could see from the Unjon-street car, we alighted, with the intention of cutting through the parade grounds to our barracks, which are sit- uated about half a mile from the main entrance to the Presidio. ASSASSIN ATTACKS PARTY. ‘At the point of the car line where we alighted there is a large pile of shingles. ‘We started to walk around the corner of the pile when suddenly a dark form sprang up from behind it and with an ozth a man, leaped forward. He carried a heavy club and in a twinkling dealt Perrin a terrific blow over the head. Perrin fell forward and the assassin im- ‘mediately made a pass at me. I suc- ceeded in dodging the blow and ran around to the other side of the shingle pile. I turned around just in time to see the murderer deal Milan a heavy blow on the head and then turn and run in the direction of Union street. “I immediately hastened to the a¥sist- ance of my fallen comrades and then gave the alarm. I met a soldier who was on his way to mail a letter and the lat- ter immediately hurried to the hospital te inform the attendants of the trouble.”” TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. A litter was immediately pressed into service and the two wounded men were carried to the general hospital, about 200 yards from the spot. where the assault occurred. \ They were immediately put on the operating table and Doctors Shortridge which he intends to pull down as it ruins the appearance of the capital. He is strongly opposed to ‘‘sky-scraper” archi- tecture. - THREE SOLDIERS WHO WERE ATTACKED BY A MURDEROUS THUG JUST INSIDE THE PRESIDIO GATE, ONE BEING KILLED AND AN- | OTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED, AND SCENE OF THE ASSAULT. | 2 over the head from a blunt instrument 2nd that both were unconsecious and ter- | ribly injured. The doctors -at first thought that Per- rin had been killed outright, but it was found that his heart was still beating, | though he was very weak. Milan was also severely injured, but not as badly | as Perrin. | The doctors worked unceasingly over the injured men, but at £:30 o'clock ¥ terday morning Perrin passed away with- out regaining consciousness. Milan re- gained his senses for a few minutes later | In the day, but before a statement could be got from him by the authorities he again relapsed into a comatose condition. He remained unconscious .all day and is in a very weak condition. At a late hour last night he was resting eas- | ily and the doctors say that he has a fighting chance for his life, though com- plications are likely t% set in at any mo- ment which may result in his death. An examination of Perrin's wounds showed that his skull was crushed in a frightful manner. His face was also badly bruised, indicating that the mur- derer had dealt the unfortunate corporal a second blow in order to make his foul deed doubly certain. Milan’s skull is also fractured, though slightly. He also received a blow in the | face frofn some blunt instrument, but his | face is not so badly cut up as Perrin's | was, showing that the blows he received were less effective than those dealt his unfortunate companion. | POLICE CANNOT INTERFERE. | As the murder occurred on a Govern- | ment reservation, neither the coroner nor the police have jurisdiction over the case, which will be handled by the military | authorities. Secret Service men are al- ready seeking a clew, but they are ex- | tremely reticent regarding whatever prog- ress they have made. | Corporal Franeis Daly of Company K, Seventh Infantry, was on sentry duty at | the time of the murder, but he saw noth- ing and did not khow what happened un- | til he was later informed by seme of the | soldiers. The conductor and gripman of | the car were also ignorant of anything wrong until after the prostrate forms of | the men had been removed by the hospital | attendants. One theory advanced is that the men had been quarreling among themselves | committed and that it was one of their own number | she had forsaken him. the car. But why he should attack Milan and Rae is hard to say, unless he wanted to kill all the witnesses to his flendish crime. WELL SPOKEN OF. Perrin was a native of Missouri and 25 He enlisted in the Eighteenth Regiment at St. Louis on August 10, 1901, and had been at the Presidio for several years old. | months - past. Milan comes from Monroe, Iowa, afid is 2 years of hge. He entered the army at Pueblo, Colorado, on August 16, 1901, and came to the Presidio at the same time as Perrin. Rae comes from Kansas and enlisted at the Presidio some time in July, 1%1. So far as is known neither Perrin nor Milan has relatives here and nothing is known of their past history. They always had the reputation ‘of being good, faithful sol- diers and are well spoken of by ‘their superior officers. The military authorities hope to ’- cate the murderers in a day or two and are working steadily to nuravel the mys- tery. Perrin’s body lies at the Presidio morgue and an inquest will probably be held on the remains to-day. SON OF A RAILROAD OFFICIAL ENDS LIFE Illness and Parents’ Opposition to His Marriage the Probable Cause. PHOENIX, Ariz, Nov. 18.—Egbert T. Clarke, son of Francis B. Clarke, trafic manager of the Great Northern Railway, suicide here to-day. Clarke came to Phoenix three years ago from his home in St. Paul, suffering from con- sumption. He was recently marrled to Ruth Barger, a young lady of a promi- nent Chicago family. His parents op- posed the marriage, owing to his delicate Lealth. This led to family difficulties. Clarke's condition grew worse; he be- came despondent and this morning he shot himself in the sanitarium where he was taking treatment. Clarke's father, who lives in St.' Paul, and his ‘mother, who is traveling in Italy with' her two daughters, were noti- fied, He had not heard from his mother since his marriage and grieved because He left two and Edgar of the general hospital were | who dea® the blows. Another is that a notes, one to his wife and one to his summoned to attend them. A hasty ex- amination of the wounds showed that each man had received a terrific blow certain teamster, who had a grudge ‘against Perrin, lay in wait for him and struck him down when he alighted from father, saying that he had wronged bot! was tired of life and had decided to i