The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1903, Page 29

R s ® Breevstrers0ess 000000009 4 Pages 20 to40 et ete09s00000000002000 . 0+0-0—0+0M0—. Pages 2010 404 .—0—0—00-0—00-0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0-0—0—.-0-0. i : T JAMES J. HILL. PLANS TO INVADE CALIFORNIA BY NORTHERN ROUTE MOTHER OF MRS. BURDICK SERENE UNDER A WITHERING Gives No Indication That She Suspects Any One of Murder. First Day’s Proceed- ings Leave Offi- cials None the Wiser. authc Mrs. Maria F f this g und and baffling She answered ev- estior asis and compos- ~ e d with L a incrim ating w her, not a € which might ald the or ng responsibility for eight minutes Mrs ired woman, clad jected to a relent- storm of querles; was ke review in the minutest d the = idents of the discovery of the ered bot n."lronn daughter’s hus- ’ was compelled to rehearse the quarrels of the Burdick Fougehold, to recall the indiscre ot * ghter and the sins of her son-in- been her life sorrow picture the hotrors of the aber of death, and'to photographs the spot where ve SH: QWS REMARKABLE COOLNESS. d pity for the little | dly through the | almost cried as the slacable and reso- sestions which al- complicity n the it all Mrs. that was remarkable! er hand trembled occasionally, but not r »m her eyes, not a sob | th a est closed the authorities dark as they were der were disclosed in Mrs. Hull and Mar- servant, and from the the ! Murray, avere brought out. But nothing of great was learned, and the chief officials | ly admitted that the first session inquest, from which =0 much was pected, was by Do means a field day. it developed chiefly the fact that there was a desire on the part of the family and the family physiclan, Dr. Marcy, to keep the murder as quiet as possible, and ©-have the case recorded as one of sul- <ide if possible. t of the public a few new points | INTERROGATION AT INQUEST i .Buroick . Marcy was It he house: he and rags from was st ca threw the d to pillow he body t of Burdick; he who greeted Dr. Howland, the deputy medical examiner when he arrived at the house; he whose rival Mrs. Hull eagerly awaited; he who Howland he would like to have Dr th be ¢ e if it could he who interposed himself when- detectives attempted to talk to or the children, and he who when told something had hap- to Burdick, if Mrs. Burdick was ome Hull revorted a suicide ne Mr r the Hull asked pened at h Mr swore positively that when the servant, Margaret Murray, notified her that something was wrong the ser- vant was downstairs and Mrs. Hull was in the bathroom on the second floor. Mrs. | Hull insisted that when she first saw the servant on the morning of the discovery of the tragédy the servant was in the back hallway. The servant swore just as positively that she went to the,second floor when she learned something wa wrong and talked to Mrs. Hull while the latter was in her own room. To this variation of statements the District At- torney, for some reason, attaches a great deal of importance. That the bodv from the spot where the death blows were struck appears from the testimony of Dr. | for — going on there and that Mr. Burdick was dead “I am not sure,”icontinued Dr. How- . “but I think he told me thaj he was not certain whether it was murder or suicide. He asked me to make it out as a case of suicide if possible, as there had been a good deal of gossip in the neign- borhood respecting the relations existing | between Mr. and Mrs. Burdick REJECTS SUICIDE PROPOSAL. The witness said he then examined the body and told Dr. Marcy that it was im- entertain the theory a minute. Asked as to what further conversation he had with Dr. Marcy, the witness said the former told him of the divorce proceedings in the Burdick fam- possible to suicide | fly. the witness said Dr. that he found the drawn, and, tore them Another thing Marcy told him wa window curtains in the “‘den” being unable to raise them, down. “He also told me that a quilt had been | wrapped three times about the head of | the murdered man,” of Burdick was moved | Howland. He said that about a foot above | | the head of Burdick | blood and a spatter | this was found also there was a stain of of brains. Proof of in the fact that the undershirt had been forced up above the walst line. The presence of blood spots on the legs near the calves convinced Dr. Howland that some one with stained ing after he was killed or had seized hold | of them to draw the body down into the | position in which it was found. | MARCY PLEADS FOR SECEECY Dr. Howland, assistant medical ex- aminer, was the first witness to-day. He ! handed to Judge Murphy thé report of the medical examiner on the death of Burdick, which stated the cause of the | death. : “Under the law, we are compelled to ¢hald this inquest,” said Judge Murphy. | “We charge no one with this crime. The purpose of this investigation is to lay thie crime if possible at the door of some one.” Dr. Howland was examined by District Attorney Coatsworth. He sald he had been summoned to the Burdick home by telephone on the morning of February 27. Dr. W. H. Marcy met him at the door and told him “that something had been | hands had either removed Buidick's cloth- | %%, B3¢ Hull main- | sald Dr. Howland, “and that he had found a pool of blood on the floor.” “What was your conclusion as to whether Burdick was killed in the den?” *[ think he was.' “Do you think he was Kkilled on the couch? I think he was on the couch.” “When he was killed was he lying on the couch in the position in which you found the body? “Judging from the location of the wounds he must have been lying in some other position at the time he was struck.” Dr. Howland said that he found a tuft on the couch. He was of the opinfon that it was longer than Burdick’'s hair. Dr. Howland said that from the condi- tion of the body he was of the opinion that Burdick was killed about 2 o’clock. This is regarded as imporrant, as it would tend to nullify the statements made to the® District Attorney by Officers Meyer and Reid regarding the “lone woman.” Detecttve Holmlund described the scenes in the “den,” and related the conversa- tion he heard with one of the maids. The witness also had a talk with Dr. Marcy. The doctor, he said, gave him the impres- sion that he wanted the tragedy kep: se- cret. MRS. HULL IS CALLED. Mrs. Hull, mother of Mrs. Burdick, was the next witness. She said that her daughter was at Atlantic City on the night of the murder. Mrs, Burdick was last at home on December 3 of last year, and left on that date for Niagara Falls, KING L0SES I GROOKED CARD GAME French Marquise Is Charged With C heatmg Laughs at Prlnce of Wales’ Threat of Exposure, e |London Journal Gives De- tails of a Suppressed Scandal. —iear Spe The Call Dispatch to LONDON, March 14.—Reynolds paper publishes King Edward 1 | lost. b In | | | MURDERED MAN, TAN HIS CHILDREN WHO PROVED IN- R ARREST. | | have been frequent visitors at the house | 1 of a certain French Marquise, where some distinguished personages play cards. The King and the Prince 'he Prince lost $35,000 in one night. He discovered eventually ng cheated, and in loud voice de- the Marquise another wo- man. He threatened to make out them in decent society. The women did net deny the fact that he had been cheat- ed, and defied the Prince to do his worst. The paper publishes this story in con- nection with the announcement .that the Prince, who is the recipient of $100,000 vearly in addition to $30,000 from the Duchy of Cornwall revenues, is unable to live on that amount. The King, accordingly, of rced an ment for an additional allowance of | $100,000 yearly for the Prince. @ ittt @ | from where she went to New York. After the murder the witness telegraphed her daughter: “Come home, Mr. Burlick is dead.” Mrs. Hull said that Burdick came into the dining-room on Thursday evening (the night of the murder). He had a bottle in his hand. She did not know what it con- tained, nor did she see it again. She thought it strange that it had disappear- ed. Burdick and his daughter Marion were in her room at 7:30 o'clock. They talked about the message from Mrs. Burdick. She did not see Burdick again that night, but heard him talking with his eldest daughter, whom he. dismissed early and retired. She did not leave her room again that night after putting the children to bed. She got up next morning at her usual hour—7:30 o'clock—without being called. The Murray girl called to her that the front door and the kitchen window were open and that she had called to Mr. Bur- dick and got no answer. OPENS THE DEATH CHAMBER. When Mrs. Hull went to the den, she said, she opened the door a little way and called “Ed, Bd, Ed.” She saw something on the couch. It was dark in there. She w the Murray girl in the hall and said: Maggie, I fear that something hap- pened. T do not dare go in there. Do you? What shall we do?” Then she said they would better send for Dr. Marcy. “Why did vou not go to the den that morning?” “I was too nervous.” What did you think?” “I did not know what had happened. T thought perhaps it was Ed on the couch.” “But you had seen him sleeping there- before. Why were you afraid to see him sleeping?’” “If he had been sleeping my screams would have awakened him. I was afraid to find him dead in there. Of course I did not know it.” “Then you did scream “Yes, as loudly as I could. 1 did not News- | a story to the effect that | 1 the Prince of Wales | Wales invariably | that he was | sts of | will ask Parlla- | KEENE POOL COUNTS 1053 N MILLION Decline in Shares . Already Proves Disastrous. Should Harriman Triumph. Holdings of Speculators Are | Greater Than Was Be- lieved. Special Dispateh to The Call. NEW YORK, March 4.—James Keene's famous pool in Southern Pacific | stands a loser of $3,200,00, according to | the price of the stock to-da | 1t hds been generally believed that there were but 280,000 shares of stock in the pool, but a prominent member de- clared that to the amount apportioned to him the pool holds to-day according within a few thousand shares of the full | 100,000 for which it was organized. It would need about 100,000 proxies added to this to control, with the Union Pacific | stock out. The stock cost more than $70 a share, | and it is now $8 below that figure. I | pointed out that unless E. H. Harriman weakens” and allows a dividend that will make the stock sell higher, or unicss the courts enjoin him from voting the cific and thereby permit the pool to ob- | tain control of the road, the pool mem- bers will lose at least this $ a share. The Harriman interests said to-day that the $90,000,000 of stock owned by the Un- | fon Pacific was held in the names of nu- merous individuals, and that it could be voted even in the face of an injunction. @ il e @ arouse him and I was frightened.” “You had no reason for expecting to find him dead in there?” “No, except that he did not respond to my screams.” She did not use the telephone in the | neuse to call Dr. Marcy, because it was | close to the children’s room and she did rot want them to hear her. When Dr. Marcy arrived she told him she was | afraid something had happened | Previous to Dr. Marcy’s arrival Mrs Hull said, she had just stepped over the threshold and looked in. | At this point Mr. Coatsworth handed Mrs. Hull the photograph of the “den,” with the body of the murdered man lying on the couch. Mrs. Hull took the pho- tegraph and looked at it intently and calmly. Then she discussed the picture pointed out famillar objects in the I:w,ow,ow of stock held by the Unton Pa- | { | anc den. Mr. Coatsworth’s examination was con- | ducted all through with the evident pur- pose of breaking down the witness. He | kept the photograph before her for many minutes, Mr. Coatsworth then showed the witness ing had been removed from the body. showed the body of the murdered man on the couch with the battered and bloody Pead. Mrs. Hull took the photograph from Mr. Coatsworth and looked at it. Her hands trembled a trifle. “Is that the way the ‘den’ looked after Dr. Marcy got there?’ asked Mr. Coats- ‘worth. “I never saw the room after he got there,” replied Mrs. Hull, looking the Dis- trict Attorney squarely in the eye. HAS ACCUSED NO ONE. Continuing, the witness said she had never asked and had never been told of the details of the tragedy. She denied ‘having sald that she thought she kncw some one who might have done it. She had had no conversation on the subject except with the officials. The witness sald she and Burdick had never quar- reled. In response to a question from Attorney Hubbell, Mrs. Hull said Burdick had al- ways treated her kindly and with great consideration, and waddressed her as “mother."” “Isn’'t it a fact that you stayed in that house after your daughter left only on account of love for the children?” “Yes, and for Mr. Burdick's sake.” Maggie Murray, the cook at the Bur- dick house, was the next witness. Sue contradicted Mrs. Hull's story of what transpired on the morning of the murder. She said she went to Mrs. Hull's bed- room and told her about the door and window being open. She swore positively that she did not call to Mrs. Hull from the first floor. She further contradicted Mrs. Hull, who had testified that she did not look over the balustrade. She said she, and not Mrs. Hull, suggested that Dr. Marcy be called. She knew of no one who held any animosity toward Bur- dick. Recovery Is Impossible 2 a photograph of the den after the cover- | It | PRESIDENT 3 ITINERARY 13 COMPLETED S S ‘Changes in Plans . for Western Tour. Start From Washington Will Be Made on April 1. San Francisco to Be Twice Visited by the Chief . : Executive. T e 1 Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTO March 14.—Details of the trip of Pre Pacific Coast, ately ate, Loeb. dent Roosevelt to the which will begin !mmr-dl- have been completed by Secretary i after the adjournment of the Sen- | Contrary to the long stories which have appeared from time to time describing how the President would hunt in the wil- derness of the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Roosevelt will do no hunting whatever. If the Senate should leave \\'a-)hlngmn on or about next Saturday the President” special will pull out for the .\'unhwesz on April 1. The first ten days will be spent in a speechmaking tour, which will begin at Chicago. portance will be at Milwaukee. This was to have been the last place the President would visit on his trip last autumn if the tour had not comie to an untimely end at*Indianapolis. The party will traverse W of Towa, Minnesota, North and South Da- | kota, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. IN YELLOWSTONE PARK. At Cinnabar the train will be sidetrack- ed and the President and Secretary of War Root, leaving all other members of the party behind, will enter Yellowstone Park under an escort of cavalry officers having charge of the park. Two weeks will be spent in the park by Mr. Roose- velt and Mr. Root, who are seeking ab- solute rest. There will be no hunting, be- cause the law prohibits the carrying of arms by sportsmen in the national park. 1t is hardly likely that the President will even get any trout fishing, as the season will not be far enough advanced for that. | Leaving Yellowstone and bearding the | train once more about April 20, the speech- making journey will be resumed and the | President will traverse Nebraska and | Missouri, Illinois arts of Kansas, Indiana, arriving at St. Louis just before | April | pate in the dedication of the world's fair buildings, and on the night of April 30 he will leave over the Atchison road through Kansas to Colorado. After see- ing considerable of that State, go over the Southern Pacific through New Mexico and Arizona. The President will start through fornia from the south. He will two or three days in Yosemite Park, visit San Francisco, Sacramento and other cit- | ies and take a run into Nevada and Utah. | BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO. | Returning to San Francisco, he will pro- ‘ceed north through Oregon and Wash- ington, stopping to attend the exposition in Portland, which celebrates the Lewis and Clarke expedition. The President will then cross the Rock- ies by another route and, coming east, will traverse the territory that he will not touch on his way West. The entire trip will consume more than two months, and on his return the Presi- dent will come direct to Washington, where he will remaln for a few days, and | Cali- | | ] of the summ HARRISON VICTORIOUS IN CHICAGO PRIMARIES CHICAGO, March 4.—In the Demo- cratic primaries which were heid to-day Mayor Carter H. Harrison, who is a can- didate for renomination. secured practi- cally all the delegates to the city con- vention and will without doubt be the candidate of his party. The Aldermanic contest in the Twenty the day. This is the same ward in which the Mayor and Robert E. Burke, the prominent Democratic leader reside. The Palmer and Burke supp.rted John C. Dalton. A Both factions worked hard, but Palmer won by a decisive majority, car- rying the eleven primary districts in which Burke resides. The Mayortly con- vention wiil be held next Monday. ncznonu.w LEADER DE!'IANT OF TURKEY VIENNA, March 1i—In a letter to the Zeit, Boris Sarafoff, the Macedonian leader, condemns any recommendation to suspend agitation in that country and give the reforms a trial. European inter- vention in the East, he says, will result only in massacres. Macedonians will not be safe until European troops occupy the country and guarantee peace. Then Macedonians will lay down their arms willingly, otherwise they will fight Turkey | alone. and | then gb to Oyster Bay for the remainder | first Ward excited the chief interest of | Mayor desired the nomination of Honore | | Securities Company, The first stop of im- | sconsin_ part | | =i | Mr. NAGNATE 10 FIGHT SANTA FF ‘Road Will Touch at Contested Points. Southern Pacitie Is Also Involved in Batile. Surveyors Complete Work and Prepare Maps of Proposed Line. —_— J. HiN, Jam president of the Northern is planning to invade California by way of the north with lines of the Great Northern Railway. This statement is made on the authority of a man close to the railroad magnate and is substantiated by facts which will be furnished to-morrow upon the arrival here of two gentlemen who have been in- strumental in the preliminary work nec- essary to permit President Hill to realize a lo fostered ambition for terminal fa- cilities in San Francisco. It has been leatned that two surveys have been made afbng the California and Oregon coast between Portland and Sa Franelsco and that those interested in these surveys have already submitted to Hill two routes by which he ¢ San Francisco. One surveying party worked northward from Marin County and the other southward from Portland, Or. Both routes surveyed are shorter than the Shasta route of the thern Pacific Company, one by 120 miles and the other by at least 140 miles. Besides this advantage over the South- ern Pacific Company's northern lime, it is claimed that the routes selected by the surveyors guarantees the comstruc- reach | tion of a railroad along a grade of about Here the President will partici- | he will | spend | 2 per cent, as against 4 per cent and more which is experienced along the Southern Pacific line. C00S BAY INCLUDED. The further information has been ob- tained that in routing the new line the surveyors were instructed to include Coos Bay among the towns to be touched, or some other city on Coos Bay, Crescent City and Eureka, in California, but it is possible that the latter two points may now be lgnored, for since the surveyors completed their work the Santa Fe has suddenly acquired the roadls arounds Cres- cent City and Eureka and announced its Intention of immediately extending these small properties southward to San Fran- cisco. Among those familiar with President Hill's purposes it is the belief that the Santa Fe's determination to get a foot- hold along the California coast was prompted and greatly hastened by an in- timation that President Hill was prepar- ing to cut through the same territory. Fourteen months ago, according to the statemegyt made yesterday by a man who is interested in the proposed new line, President Hill made his first move toward getting Into California territory. As might be expected, he was careful to keep in the background. Representatives, not ordi nary railroad employes, but wealthy men from the Northwest and even from New York, were sent to California and began buying up timber lands within a territory designated by Mr. Hill and his railroad Fadvisers. WORK UNDER COVER. Under the guise of seeking good invest- ments in California these men of wealth bought everything they could lay their hands on within the limits prescribed by Mr. Hill It is well known in the extreme north- ern counties that some lands were bought at puices which were far in excess of a reasonable figure. Most of these purchases were made by direction of four men, two of whom will be in the city to-morrow and one of whom has in his office all the maps relating to the two surveys made along the coast of California. These agents worked for Mr. Hill under arrangements similar to those existing between the Santa Fe and the parties who were engaged by that company to secura the Eel River, the California Northern and its extension, namely, that they wera guarantéed a fair percentage of profit above the amount they paid for the lands and the roads, and were also given the privilege of retaining - such portions of the timber lands as were not needed by the company for a right of way. In addi- tion to these arrangements they have en- " Continued on Page 30, Column %