The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII—-NO. 106. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1903. PRICE" FIVE CENTS. IDHITAKER WRIGHT, CHIEF FIGURE IN COLOSSAL SWINDLE, ARRESTED ABOARD ATLANTIC LINER ARRIDVING THUSS KILL CAFE BUEST AT DINNER Wanton Murder by Masked Men in Pueblo. Enter Fashionable Res- taurant and Fire at Patrons. One Victim Meets Instant Death and Another s Dying. T i m number black masks back door of Loes- wore opera-hc while at the iinner ed his & i im’s blood wis e nd the wall of . p t 1ther th and recently where his brother lives about 30 years old and He fired onl there were bullet us far MAS SAYS THAT MRBS. FAIR LIVED AFTER HER HUSBAND New Witness in the Will Contest Ar- rives at New York and Tells His Story. ¥ M wa w ity « er ore or after the acc came here because trying to prove that was the first to die were en- g him in” France it MASKED ROBBERS INVADE HOME OF WEALTHY WIDOW Secure Large Sum of Money and Val- uables She Was Afraid to Trust to Banks. APAKONE Ohio. March nd 15— masked rmed men house of a widow, M helder. r Cridersville, sion. With Mrs. Reischelder granddaughter, Blanche. ge James and his wife es. Mrs. Relschelder afraid trust her The robbers bound d his son and the two the point of a shot- 11 to tell where the id. They secured rth of notes and of jewelry and the money art of them left them remained un- ing themselves to tered t Reis nes nd to be he banks d $7000 wor - REPARES TO SETTLE WITH GERMANY VENEZUELA P Amount of the First Payment Is De- posited in the Treasury at Caracas. The amount of under the as deposited in and will be nan Minister, German; eement w he order of the Pelidr w in | | SENATE WILL RATIFY CANAL TREATY WITHOUT AMENDMENT Supporters of the Panama Route Win Four From Opposition and the Will Receive Almost Solid Vote 8f Républican Majorit Democrats Convention With Colombia v -+ | TWO DEMOCRATIC STAT ARE F il WITH THE REPUBLIC IN TH [ RATIFICATION OF THE CANAL TREATY. | ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, | check by a little nation like Colombia.” N. W., WASHINGTON, Mar Another Senator was asked the ques- 15.—The advocates of the Pa tion: ““What will_the United States do if ama canal route have appar- | it is at war with another power and that ently won over most of the Re- publican Senators and at least four of the Democ in favor of the Panama | eaty Sena who are leading the struggle for Panama claim to-night { they will be able to vote down every | amendment offered by the Democrats and | caty by a good majority. alment is made by the Repub- n leaders of their purpose to jam the ratf e t Tic treaty through. “Ratify the treaty and the guns will take care of sovereignty!” is the ba Senator, who is favoring the giving sovereignty to the asked one of the Panama at the United States proposed to do when got down to the isthmus | and found Colombia insisting on exerct United § Senators w ing sovereignty over the canal. | “Do?" he replied. “Why, we will exer- | cise scvereignty just the same. Do you suppose the United States will be held in @ il EIGET MEN COMBAT ' WITH NAKED SWORDS | Four Receive Wounds in Tournament | Conducted Under Dueling Conditions. March 15.—A novel encounter in | men fought with dueling buttons under the same PARIS which eight swords without | i | conditions as prevail in actual duels, and in which four of the combatants were slightly wounded, took place this after- noon in a private enclosure at Neuilly, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the pres- | ence of 150 persons, among them being Santos Dumont, Maxime Dreyfus, Robert Charvey and other well known Parisian | clubmen. ‘ The police attempted to interfere, but the Commissary of Police was Induced to believe that the affair was an ordi- nary match with buttoned fofls and he de- | hold their column | otherwise mutilated. The fragments we: | sity by the class of 1879, power tries to pass its warships through the canal, the neutrality of which is pledzed by .us, and which under the treaty is to be protected by Colombia?" “We will blow up the enemy’s ships in the canal,” was the reply. The Democrats have been unable to olid. Senators Cock- rell of Missouri, ery of Louisiana and Mallory and Taliaferro of Florida will not give their Democratic associates any promises to stand by them and amend the treaty. These men, it is ex- pected, will vote for the treaty in its present form. It has been arranged that Senator Frye shall close the debate on the Republican side on Tuesday. Senators ~Patterson, Teller, McEnery and Foster threaten to talk the Cuban treaty to death, even after it has been killed by the amendment agreed to by the Committee on Forelgn Relations, o UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GUILTY OF VANDALISM Disfigure One of the Bronze Lions That Guard the Entrance of Nassau Hall. PRINCETON, N. J., March 15.—One of the big bronze lions which guard the en- trance of historic Nassau Hall was so badly disfigured last night by a crowd of voung alumni and upper classmen that it cannot be safely repaired. The contingent of students and. gradu- ates gathered on the steps at a late hour to sing their class songs and engage in a Iittle celebratién. During the jollification one of the big lions was beheaded an) gathered up by the university protector this morning. The lions were presented to the univer- of which Presi- dent Wilson is a membe: | was found which rendered - TURF FRAUDS ARE HIBED IN WHITE HOUSE President AsksVet- eran Official to Resign. |Advice Given Arnold and Ryan Leads to Trouble. Atto Department in Dis- grace. _— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, March 15.—Driven to the wall by the courts, which indicted their officers, and by the Postoffice De- partment, which stopped their mail, two of the largest turf investment associations of the *get-rich-quick’’ kind in the United States have entered into a campaign of revenge against certain present and for- mer officials of the Postoffice Department, to whom they attribute their downfall, Campbell, the well-known criminal lawyer of Cincinnati, now representing the notorious Arnold and Ryan Turf in- vestment associations of St. Louis and Newport, Ky., respectively, called upon President R velt yesterday, and, for probably the first time, a turf scandal was. aired in the White House. It is un- derstood that Campbeil told the President that the Arnold and Ryan turf concerns had retained as their attorney Harrison J. Barrett, formerly assistant to the As- sistant Attorney General for the Post- sfice Department, James Tyner, upon Barrett's representatign that his knowl- edge and acquaintanieshs and influence in the Postoffice Department would en- able him to advise them how to eonduct their business without being molested by the legal authorities. Barrett is a nephew of Tyner's wife. TYNER LOSES HIS POST. Within a few hours of the time when Campbell saw’the President the latter had decided to ask for the resignation of Ty- ner, who is 77 years old, and who entered the postoffice service two days after am Lincoln was first inaugurated, Tyner wrote a letter to the Arnold con- cern in St. Louis stating that its business had been imvestigated and that nothing the concern liable to prosecution. The turf company in whose case Tyner wrote this opinion was one of those which had retained Bar- rett, who is related to Tyner by marriage. But the turf concern depending upen | this opinion did not avoid @rouble. Despite the fact that the postoffice officials had not deemed the evidence against them severe enough to warrant the stoppage of their mail, the courts in St. Louls indicted the promoters of several of these con- cerns. Then the postoffice authorities stopped their mail. REVENGE OF PROMOTERS. When tke courts hit the get-rich-quick schemes so hard, it is understood, there occurred a rupture between these con- cerns and Barrett, the promoters of the turf associations declaring that it was upon his opinion that their operations could not be criminally prosecuted that they continued those operations. It ap- pears that the turf associations then re- solved to strike at Barrett, if necessary, through his relative, Mr. Tyner, but the official reason given for Tyner's retire- ment is his incapacity through ill health and not guilt of any irregular officlal action. GOULD MAY EXTEND LINE TO LOS ANGELES Engineers-Are About to Start Survey From Marysvale . Terminus of the Rio Grande Western. SALT LAKE, Utah, March 15.—Engin- eers in the employ of the Gould lines, it is said on good authority to-day, will shortly start from Marysvale, the ter- minus of the Rio Grande Western in this State, to survey a line southwest from that point. While no official information is given as to the destination, it is stated here that there can be but one outcome, a line to Los Angeles. The Rio Grande already has a preliminary survey from Marysvale to Los Angeles and San Diego. Near Muddy Pass, in Lincoln County, Nev., this survey crosses the line which has been surveyed by the Santa Fe from Manvel, Cal., to the north. The Santa Fe has been doing some building in this di- rection and the two lines would meet it continued. —_— MOUNTAINOUS SEAS SWEEP DECKS OF AN OCEAN LINER HALIFAX, N. 8, March 15.—The Brit- ish steamer Unalonda arrived from Liv- erpool to-day. The steamer was in a hur- ey for the Postoffice | Xpected to | o rted. The organizers of the encounter | declare that the object was to demon- | strate the harmlessness of duels as lhe)‘[ Tuesday »f Government troops was sent Island March 13 m Margarita b bt ack the rebels at Carapano, which qur. | 8T¢ Senerally fought. i g the blockade was taken by ti M e e | \fier three hours' fEhting the Gowerr. | German Crown Prince Is Ill in Egypt. | nent forces reoccupied the town, cap. | CAIRO, March 15.—The German Crown | p Prince, who s, on a tour of Egypt, wa uring the guns and Mausers and taking three prisoners, thirty-nine of were wounded. _ taken suddenly ill yesterday. His condi- tion i reported to be serious, but not ricane for nineteen days, during nine of which she covered only 300 miles. She was driven back one day sixty-eight miles and snother day seventy-four miles. Moun- Fatal Quarrel Over a Plow. BILLINGS, Mont, March 15 —During a quarrel between Bryan Hart and James Ryan, brothers-in-law and nelghboring | tainous seas swept her decks from stem racchers near here, last night, Hart was | to stern, smashing boats, bridges and badly cut with a knife in the hands of | steering gear. The carpenter was Ryan, who also smashed a whisky jug over Hart's head, fracturing his skull. | Hart will probably die. The quarrel arose over a plow and took place at Ry-_n's] house. e i - crushed to death in the after-house and the coxswain had his arm broken. Four of the crew were badly hurt. Constant use of oil kept the steamer from being en- &ulfed bx the seas AT NEW YORK Leaves Europe With Woman Companion Under As- sumed Name and Journey Ends in a Trip in the tions, was arrested to-day on the arrival of the French line steamer La Lorraine from Havre. The arrcst was made by two central office detectives, at the request of the London police. Wright was taken to police headquar- ters and later to the Tombs Police Court, where he was arraigned before a magis trate and turned over to the United States authorities. He was then taken to the Ludlow-street Jail. With Wright on the steamer was a tall, good-looking young woman, who said she was the niece of the prisoner. Her name on the passenger list was Miss F. Browne. ‘Wright, when told that he was under arrest, showed no evidence of excitement and said he was a friend of King Edward. His principal concern was to avoid pub- licity and he asked that his arrest be kept from the newspapers, UNDER ASSUMED NAMES. ‘Wright and his companion were entered on the original passenger list as M. An- droni and Mile. Androni. That Wright did not expect to be ar- rested is shown by the fact that after the steamship left Havre he told the purser that a mistake had been made in making out the tickets in the name of Androni. His name, accordmgly, was changed and appeared on the additional list as “Mr. J. ‘W. Wright,” and that of the woman as “Miss F. Browne."” Wright is thus described in the cable message from the London police: “Absconder charged on warrant with fraud to a large amount, Whitaker ‘Wright, manager of London and Globe Finance Corporation of this city. Aged 50 years; height, five feet ten or eleven inches; complexion, florid; hair and mus- tache, dark; large head; small eyes; re- ceding forehead; weight, about 252 pounds; wears gold-rimmed glasses with gold chain attached; speaks with a slight American accent. Please arrest if possible and wire Commissioner of Police, Lon- don.” The description given out by the Lon- don police did not fit the man as to de- tafls. It was a good general description, however. ‘ MAKES PLEA FOR SECRECY. ‘Wright and the.young woman occupied one of the finest deck suites on the steamship. Wright was sitting at a desk in hig cabin when found by the detectives. When address®d by name he at once ad- mitted his identity, and on being told that he was under arrest at the request of the Londori police, said: “That was a business transaction. I understood that the matter was all set- .tled in Parliament. This is a surprise to me. I am willing to go with you. All I want is to zet away from here with as little noise as possible. Don’t let the newspapers know anything about this.” They went on deck with the woman, and told her of Wright's arrest. With an officer on either side of him he was | was not called upon to say anything, and in a few minutes he was formally turned | over to the custody of the Marshals, who took him to the Ludlow-street Jail. WRIGHT'S FAIR COMPANION. Miss Browne, who was left on the pier, remained ‘looking after the baggage. She is rather tall and slender, dressed in dark blue and wearing a broad-brim, low crowned hat, draped with a flim; blue veil. ment beyond that she had come over to visit friends. After her baggage had been examined she left in a cab, instructing the driver to go to an uptown hotel. Nothing was known on La Lorraine as to the identity of the pair. They made no friends and Wright appeared in pub- lic but little. La Lorraine left Havre about 5 p. m. .on March 7. Wright and his companion came to Havre on the train to that afternoon. They went at once their rooms. During the trip across Miss Browne did not leave her room, until the vessel was ene day from port, when she | appeared on deck. Wright spent most of | his time in bis suite. LIVES IN REGAL STYLE. The financial crash of the companies floated by Whitaker Wright came in De cember, 1900. There were eleven of these, including the parent company, entitled the London and Globe Finance Corpora- tion, with a total capitalization of $60,- 67a,000. Wright was the managing di- rector. Few millionaires lived in the same princely style as did Wright. In Fark Lane, Londan, he had a.minlature palace, in the drawing-room of which was a copy of the famous cabinet du rei of Louis XV. It took three years to complete this and it cost many thousands of pounds. At Godalming he owned a country seat, in beautifying which 600 workmen were | engaged. It contains costly fountains and statuary brought from Italy. ‘Wright's stables alone cost a small for- tune. They have upholstered oak and leather settees and polished gun metal fittings, while valuable paintings and bas- reliefs adorn the stalls. His private yacht was fitted up with similar luxuriousness, and at one time he was credited with the patent of a yacht to race Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. VICTIMS OF THE CRASH. One of the victims of the crash was the late Marquis of Dufferin, previously Gov. ernor General of Canada and British Em- bassador to Paris. He consented to be y Tight | She declined to make any state- | L - | FORMER MANAGER FOR THE LONDON AND GLOBE FINANCE COR- | PORATION, THE COLLAPSE OF WHICH CAUSED THE LOSS OF | | MILLIONS OF POUNDS TO CREDULOUS INVESTORS. { g —p EW YORK, March 15.—J. Whit- | escorted down the gangw Wright was aker Wright, the London pro-|taken to court, where the detectives ex- moter, who is accused of being | plained the arrest in a few words. Two concerned in the colossal frauds | United States Marshals appeared with a in connection with the organi- | warrant for Wright's arrest, charging him zation of various financial corpo with being a fugitive from justice. Wright | | court” | rant for W Company of Sleuths to Gotham’s Ludlow Street Jail Declares He i Is Guiltless | .z_y Whitaker Wr{vfi!. EW YORK, March 15.—I cannot express my amaze- | ment at my arrest. It is an outrage and those who are responsible for it will be made to suffer to the full extent of the law. The entire charge sgamnst me s | technical, and in this country mno one would ever think of making it. Why, Mr. Morgan evem might be subject to annoyance every day | such as this, if your laws were as strict as ours in England. If I had believed it possible that such a charve would be made I would not, of course, have left home, but after having devoted the | last two years to assisting the of- ficial liguidators of the Globe Company, and the Crown officers having made the statement in Par- liament that it was not possible to Press any charge against me, I felt free to take a two months’ trip to | British Columbia to inspect cer- | tain mining properties there, to visit California, where I have some interests and to return home by way of Australia, where I have in- terests of various kinds. It is now more than two years since the Globe Company failed. There was a public inquiry more than a year ago, after which it was declared that my hands were clean of any crime or intent to do wrong. and that noghing but errors of | judgment could be advanced | against either mywelf or other di- rectors of the company. The men associated with me were above suspicion. Among the direc- tors, besides myself, were the late Lord Dufferin, formerly Governor General of Canada; Lord Loch, for- meriy High Commissioner in South Africa; Lord Edward Pelham Clin- ton, General Somerset Caldthorpe and Robert E. Leman. They lost a great deal of money, as we all did, but this is one of the risks one has | to take in such business affairs. p— sured for his connection with the Wright companies, but in a frank speech to the stockholders of the London and Globe Corporation he declared his position and won the sympathy of the.country. His wealth, at one time large, was belleved to have been swallowed up in these com- panies. AMERICANS LOSE MONEY. Much American money was lost in the tallure of the Wright companies. There was a great outcry against the attitude of the authorities In ngt prosecuting Whit- aker Wright and hiff fellow directors of the London and Globe Company, and in January last a petition was circulated on the London Stock Exchange, signed by many influential men, demanding the prosecution of Wright, as it was consid- ered that the credit of the city and of the Lendon Stock Exchange demanded a thorough investigation. A fund of 325,000 was raised to Initiate the proceedings against Wright. Arnold White, the author, at a meeting said the reason the prosecution was not urdertaken by the Government was that the directors of the London and Globe were sheltering themseives behind men: bers of the royal family. He added that he understood that a royal Duke had in- vested his money in the concern, and he believed that “certain hangers-on were using the name of the King and others for the purpose of hiding their own deed: Other speakers at this meeting declaved that the stockholders of the London ard Globe Company were victims of “terrible, heartless and gigantic swindlers.”™ TARDY JUSTICE MOVES. On March 19 action was taken against Wright. Justice Buckeley, in the chan- cery division of the High Court of Jus- tice, made an order directing the receive as liquidator of the London and Globa Finance Corporation, Limited, to prose- cute on a criminal charge Whitaker Wright and utilize the assets of the L don and Globe to pay the costs of tae prosecution. The following day a war- ght's arrest was issued. When the police officer went to his home he was informed that Wright had gone to the Continent on account of his heaith. The same afternoon the Irish National- ist, Swift McNelill, asked the Home Sec- retary in the House of Commons what steps were being taken to prevent Wright escaping from justice, and later the Home Secretary announced that the Govern- ment intended to bring Wright to justice. TRACED BY HIS BANK NOTES. How Detectives Learned the Where- abouts of the Fugitive. LONDON, March 15.—Only yesterday the London police officials cabled to the New York police that Whitaker Wright and a woman supposed to be his niece had sailed on La Lorraine under the name of Androni. Wright's wife and fam- ily are still in England, and, so far as the police have ascertained, none of relatives have left the country. Whitaker Wright left London about Feruary 21 and went direct to Paris, where he remained four days before pro- ceeding to Havre to embark on La Lor- raine. Wright was traced to Paris by the bank notes which he cashed there, at the office of the French steamship line and - chairman of the London and Globe Com- pany and bad 25,000 shares in the different companies. ‘With Lord Dufferin on the board of di- rectors were Lieutenant General Gough- Calthrap, who was colonel of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, and Edward Willilam Pelham-Clinton, master of the inte Queen’s household and son of the fifth Duke of Newcastle. When the crash came Lord Dufferin was severely cen- elsewhere. When he left his country seat at Godalming he traveled by way of Southampton and Havre to Paris taking pains /to conceal his movements by the direction of his lugsage and by other means. This procedure apparently was successful, for it was only yesterday that the, detectives got a clew to his move- ments through the bank notes he had Cmtinued e Fags % > ovm to |,