The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCII=-NO, 89, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1903. Pl;l"]’. FIVE CFENTS. PILOT COMMISSIONER R. 5. ALEXANDER RESIGNS HIS OFFICE AND IN LETTER TO GOUVERNOR PARDEE DENOUNCES ASSOCIATES AS PERJURERS, THROIING CONSTERNATION INTO THEIR CAMP PILOT COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER DENOUNCES ASSOCIATES IN RESIGNATION S AN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 26, 1903.—Governor George C. Pardee, Sacramento, Cal.—Dear Sir: I tender you my resignation as Pilot Commis- sioner of San Francisco. Having acknowledged my acceptance under misapprehension pro rata of money paid the Pilot Commissioners, Leale Pratt and myself, as charged, | now, out of self-respect, decline to do business with men who have added perjury to the charge of guilt. Respectfully, DEMOCAITS DECLARE Wi IN CONGRESS Sensat-iorial ' Clash Over Butler's Ousting. Dalzell Out-Czars the Late Speaker Reed in Ruling. Minority Proposes to Fili- buster, and Many Bills Are in Peril g for » r was seized and a yea a nay f which there were eight during the Cap- e of the ur remain Democrats, of under raised a »ugh Republican make up a quo- nd th g Ri on, and NOW THE FILIBUSTER. made t ot COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT LAUDS ACHIEVEMENTS BEY OF THE FAMOUS WESL — = 5 TRGET THE LT & FOUNDER OF WHOSE BI-( IBRAT - XETHODISM, ARY WAS | ERDAY. D YEi e || Thousands Listen to th Forcible Speech by Roosevelt. VIV g 107 T “Delighted to see you™ replied the | | President, who, ad ing the police, ‘let the man p 5 +* ——te o asping Cronin’s hand he led him into . the hall and saw that he had a seat near Two Hundredth Anmver-_ him on the platform. After the meeting the President introduced Cronin to the members of his party and told them the story of his furious night drive along the | Adirondacks roads to catch the train. CHEERS FOR ROOSEVELT. EW YORK, Feb. 2 —President| Cheers and handclapping announced the sary Celebrated in Roosevelt was the chief speaker |arrival of Mr. Roosevelt, who advanced to-night at a great mass-meeting | from the rear platform, accompanied by New York. at ¢ gie Hall, held “to do hon- | Mr. Bowne. When he had reached the or to the character and labors of John | front of the stage the President bowed Wesley, the founder of Methodism, | slightly and then walked over to the seat scholar, missior philanthropist, | reserved for him behind the desk. Chalir- preacher, gentieman { Bowne then announced the hymn, he meeting was held under the aus- pices of the New York Thank Offering | Charles Wesley. Commission, which has charge of the | cal work of the Twentieth Century : 1 of $20,000,000 that has “Blow Ye ‘the Trumpet, Blow,” by Bishop Foss of Phila- Iphia then led the meeting in prayer, ing with the Lord’s prayer, in which a mighty volume of voices joined. Mr. Bowne made a short address. He said that Methodism is constantly grow- k Offerir | t ardson immediate- | the Atlantic seaboard. He then introd e | Eems W cwnt e e Atlantic seaboard. He then introduced > Des nts T | dent R velt a right, and on thei progigent Roosevelt, the dudience rising the end of the ses- | platform were Bishop C. D. Foss, Bishop | ¢, creet him. President Roosevelt spok further business, | Wwalden, Bishop Goodsell, Bishop F. G. d 5 BB g ok a recess W morning. the* Butler case nduct of the proceeding | a shameful | sordid motive | 000 in salary.” includes siative day 4 in order | 18 work of | inst filibuster- prepared n ™ Under operation of these ic measures s believed none of t ppropriation | s or other necessary measures will be dized, but the present situation un® ubtedly sounds the death knell of many minor measures dence ove Morgan Will Not Go to Cuba. PASADENA, Feb. 2%.—J. Plerpont Mor- gan, Mrs. Morgan and Miss Morgan have notified the Hotel Raymond that they | will arrive here on Saturday. Théy have chanuged their minds about visiting Cuba. | stonary Society. | escorted by | as follows, and was attentively listened Andre Dr. James R. Day, Bishop C. |, . H. Fowler; the Rev. Dr. E. S. Tipple, ex-| ecutive secretary of the New York Thank Offering Commission; the Rev. Dr. J. W. Johnstone, pastor of the old John-street M. E. Church, and the Rev. Dr. A. D. Leonard, secretary of the Methodist Mis- THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. I am glad to have the chance of addressing | this representative body of the great church which Wesley founded on the occasion of the commemoration of the two hundredth anniver- sary of his birth, America, moreover, has a peculiar proprietary clalm on Wesley's mem- ory, for It is on our continent that the Meth- odist church has received its Ereatest develop- ment. In the days of our colonial life Meth- odism was not on the whole a great factor In the religious and social life of the people. The | Congregationalists were supreme throughout most of New England: the Episcopalians on the seaboard from New York southward; whils the Presbyterlan congregations were most nu- merous along what was then the entire West- ern frontier; and the Quaker, Catholic and Dutch Reformed churches each had develop- ments in special places. The great growth of the Methodist church, like the great growth of the Baptist church, began at about the time of the Revolutionary War. To-day my themg is purely Methodism. Since the days of the Revolution not only has the Methodist church increased greatly in the ol] communities of the thirteen original The hall was crowded to the doors and hundreds were unable to gain admittance. CRONIN GOES IN. President Roosevelt reached the hall, a detachment of mounted police, at §:30. As he alighted from his | carriage he was hailed by a young man, who was struggling in the crowd, and whom the police were trying to force back “I'm Mike Cronin, Mr. President, and I want to hear you speak,” he shouted. President Roosevelt instantly recognized him as the driver who drove him on the last stage of his journey to North Creek to take the train for Buffalo after being notified of the death of President Mc- Kinley. l Continued on Page 2, Column 6. ing, except possihly in the coast cities on | OONFESSES T MURDRR OF FINE WOMEN ‘Albert Knapp Tells of Grewsome List. Hamilton Uxorecide Re- é veals Long Career | of Crime. | | Mysteries That Baffled the Police Cleared Away by His Statement. MRS e | | | HAMILTON. Ohlo, Feb. 2.—Albert W. "l\'n.upp, the Indianapolis man arrested | | | | | | | yesterday, who confessed to the murder | of his third wite, to-day made a full con- Among. them-1s | | that of Ida GebMwd, the West ]ndlan-l | apolis girl who was found murdered in a | stable July 3, 15% l Knapp's confession, which was sworn fossion of five W AMiars. to before Mavor Bosch, is as follows: “On January 21, 188, I killed Emma | Littleman in a lumber yard in Gest street, Cincinnati. On August 1, 1884, [ killed Ma posite the Y. M. C Eckert in Walnut street, op- A., On |} 1 in Cincinnati. August 7, 18, I killed my wife, Jennie Connors Knapp, under the canal bridge | | | in Liberty street, Cincinnati, and threw | | | her into the canal. In Indianapolis, in | | July, 1865, 1 killed Tda Gebhard. On De- | | | cember 1902, T killed my wife, Anna| | | Knapp, at 3 outh Fourth street, in | } | Hamilton, and threw her into the river | | | out by Lindenwald. This is the truth. | “I make this statement by my own free | | will and not by the request of any officer | | or any one else. | “ALBERT KNAPP.” | | *“Sworn to before me this, the 26th day | of February, 1903 i “C. F. BOSCH, Mayor.” ADDS TO DETAILS. Knapp admitted that he had repeatedly assaulted women | | and killed some of thefn. He sald he | met the Littleman child in the lumber vard and choked her to death when she | T an outery | went into a room with the Eckert | girl,” he sald, “and she cried. I strangled her with a towel and hurried from the house. “I was mad at my wife, Jennie Connors, one afternoon and I killed her. We were walking along Liberty street. “I sat her down on the bridge and choked her t death. I deny that T poisoned her. never told any one I did. After she wa: | | ‘ After his confession | o 1 s Bl e sk 2R PREIY, + PILOT COMMISSIONER WHO HAS AND WHO DB HIS ASSOCIATES IN | OFFICE AS PERJURERS — H T Hr.rBra"rber Tells History of Res- | bate. again has thrown consterna- tion among the adherents of his associates in office not less than that which fol- lowed his confession before the Senate committee sitting in this ace he a Imitted that he Pratt and Leale, were guilty as charged by city, in which and his associates, this paper with having bartered dead 1 threw the body into the canal. “lda Gebhard I killed, but my memory is not clear as to what I did. I can’t tell what made me kill these peopie. I could not help it. Simply a desire to kill. Iam sorry for my crimes, but now I hope they will be easy with me.” | After the confessions a formal charge | of murder in the first degree was filed. LAWYER INTERFERES. | Attorney C. E. Tenney of Cincinnati was allowed to see Knapp and told him to | make no further statements Knapp was | surprised that his people had secured a | lawyer for him. Knapp talks much of the Pearl Bryan murder and is afraid of | being lynehed. Despite assurances of no incidents marked the progress. yestérday of the scandal in the Pilot Com- discontented in an association with bribe-takers, who added per- jury to their other offenses, re- signed, and State Senator Emmons, who misrepresents Kern, Kings and Tulare counties, intimated that The Call is fearful of a phase of the inquirybecause it Knapp is now suspected of having | stranglea three women at Evansville, Ind., and of having killed women else- where. He was in the Cincinnati House of Refuge when 17 years old, and otner criminal records are being discovered al- most hourly. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 26.—Albert Knapp formerly llved here. He was sent to the penitentiary for one year in 1584 for burglary. His first wife was Miss | Emma Stubbs, a 17-year-old girl, whom he married about 1883. After living with him for a few months she left him and se- cured a divorce. 5 ASHES FROM COLIMA FALL ON GUADALAJARA GUADALAJARA. Mexico, Feb. 25.—No direct information has been recelved from points adjacent to Mount Colima since early this morning, but it is belleved that the volcano is still in active eruption, as ashes have been falling all day in the territory south of here. The volcano gave a magnificent display last night. The re- ports of loss of life have not been con- firmed. the proprietor of this paper. Upon this development of the case The Call has something to say. The Call invites a full investi- gation, regardless of John D. Spreckels or any one else, and as long as Senator E.J. Emmons keeps sober—wwhich is a rare oc- currence—this paper will aid him in bringing forth all the evidence The Tugboat Companies witl Give Information. mission which The Call has laid | aanger of lynching, he Is frightened ana | bare for legislative inquiry. Pilot e to b P S8 = i3 = doss mot Muntilo 00 ke, v ehel Commissigner a5, Alexander, County Jail. Sy may not, he alleges, be pleasant to | for gold positions in the public had service over which the law igiven them jurisdiction. | And the resignation of Pilot | Commissioner Alexander was not ‘thc only important development WO deeply significant| he wants regarding the pilotage | of yesterday in the scandal that involved the Pilot Commis- of San Francisco. 1ILOT COMMISSIONER R. S. ALEXANDER, out- raged by the cold-blooded | which his | iciatcs in office, C. H. S. Pratt and i\\'illiam G. Leale, have main—i | tained, under oath, in the face of | overwhelming proof and in thej | has | |sion. One of the methods pur- sued by the San Francisco bar pi- lots to prevent the filing by ship owners of protests against their rules was brought to the atten- tion of the Senate Committee on | manner in asso- | Commerce and Navigation, sit- ting at Sacramento, through the testimony of Captain T. H. Bar- face of his confession, that they innocent of the charges of ber, port agent for the San Fran- {are cisco bar pilots. Captain Barber | bribery laid against them by The| | Call, has been compelled, out of respect for himself, to decline to| testified that when tughoats of the Merchants and Spreckels tow- boat companies are called upon longer associate with them and|i, ¢o ships out to sea, the pilots | has filed his resignationas a mem- | ber of the Pilot Commission with Governor Pardee. “I now out of seli-respect de- allow the ship owners a rebate of fifty per cent of the pilotage fees, which per cent is returned to the | ship owners through the towboat cline to do business with tWo| companies. He left the inference, men who have added perjury to| th-e §harge of guilt,” Pilot Cnm»ipam s missioner Alexander strongly | —— —— asserts in his resignation, andi Continued on Page 2, Column & however, that all of the money to the towboat com-