The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FFANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1903 (<) CORONER’S JURY FINDS CHIPMAN'S SLAYER COMMITTED MANSLAUGHTER Frank J. Grundman Bows His Head in Grief When He Hears the Story of the Fatal Shooting as Told by Eye-Witnesses. BEATYK GEUHDMAT He tated that the Chipman, be ¢ hother CHIPMAN AT TELEPHONE. s " ,. t n the em- . = : pistol. | rter who rested ting, testified he fome One upstairs man.” The wit-| ped Grundman by the he said, “I am not geing nybody.” He then Mr. Grant helped | ant, a clerk in the empiloy | Pacific Company, corrob- ated Swa WITNESSED SCUFFLE. saw the scuffie | d then saw Chip- | rig { | | t side. Chip- | sor and was | »ssexsion of the pistol. | 1, who took the prisoner, t at Grundman said | er drunk nor crazy.” | told of going to the bullding and witness testi- | ey me, took the p charged | el he had gone down 1o leave the city and not 2 and his family. Chipman, d told him that his pan and he shot him. He e 4 man if be had not shot 24 the mother of his two autopsy physician, DOoNMOHUE Inquisitors Find That C. E. Hayes’ Death Was Accidental R OF SHERIDAN CHIPMAN, —_— WHO WAS CHARGED WITH JURY YESTERDAY, AND SOME EST \TIVE TIMBER FOR THE EAST Contract for Millions of Feet of Redwood to Be Placed. E. A. Maltby, president of the Ontario Power Company of Buffalo, is at the Pal- ace, having come to California to summate a deal that will mean much to is the lumber dealers of the State. He at the head of a project to transmit w ter power from Niagara Falls by means of a big flume for a distance of more than a mile to a proposed plant with which his company intends tc furnish electric power to the city of Buffalo. It is part of the scheme to build this flume of redwood, and the purpose of Majtby's visit to the city was to confer with local redwood lumber dealers to de- termine whether they could fill the con- | tract for the material. The plans for the undertaking call for 15,000,000 feet of lumber, which a number of the local firms, Aafter sevel representative, have agreed to fill through a contract with the Hammond Lumber Company, which will act as the medium between the dealers and Maltby. It is expected that the contracts will be signed to-day. The deal means a movement of 300 carloads of lumber to the East, the | largest individual order that has ever been placed in California. L D o o e e e e e T ) told of the wounds he found on the de- ceased. He examined the clothes worn by Chipman at the time he met his death and stated the powder marks on the clothing made it evident that the pistol was held close to the body. con- | al meetings with the Eastern | HE Coroner’s jury rendered a ver- dict vesterday that Charles E. who was killed by being rown from a buggy in Golden Hayes | met his death through aceldent. The in- Quest yesterday brought out nothing that has not been published in The Call. Mr O’Connell was unable to attend the tial and her deposition was' read. There was nc evidence to show that the deceased had a large sum of money on his person |at the time of the accident. His father testified at the inquest that he had given him a k the previous day, but did not | know whether his son had cashed it, Dr. Bacigalupi testified that in his opin- |ien C. E. Hayes came to his death by a. | cident. He testified that deceased suf- fered a fracture of the skull, which was | evidently produced by a fall. | Police Officer C. B. Kessing sald he knew nothing about the case. He said he and another officer had been sent from the Stanyan-street station after the acci- dent. He sald he found a pool of blood and a_comb, evidently dropped by a wom- lan. He said they searched the brush for \e woman, but could not find her. Dr. C. F. Miller, who is in charge of the Park Emergency Hospital, told of being | called at 1 p. m. to attend Hayes, | whom he found near the entrance to the | Strawberry Hill road. He said Mr. Nel- |son had come to the hospital and the | tmmediately followed him with the am- bulance, ROBBERY NOT EVIDENT. | Dr. Miller stated that the man’s over- | coat was buttoned up and there was | nothing to indicate that any one had gone | through his pockets. From the nature of |the wound he was of the opinion that | deith was caused by accident. He was of the opinion that the deceased was thrown out of a buggy. The doctor stat- |ed that backs, $20 in gold and $125 in silver on his person. J. Foley, an ambulance driv- er, corrohorated the doctor. J. A. Neison, the restaurant keeper, who was out driving in the park with Rdb- ert Winchester, reiterated the statement published in The Call. He testified that he looked back and saw the buggy over- | lana | Gate Park last Tuesday morning, | the deceased had $40 in green- | CLAIM HE STOLE LIGHT GURRENT Ferry Cafe Illuminated at Very Small { Cost. Warrants Out for Arrest of Proprietor and an Electrician. ————— H. A. Wood, representing the Indepen- | dent Electric Light and Power Compan: | swore to a complaint before Police Jud Fritz yesterday for the arrest of Louis | Arzner, proprietor of the Ferry Cafe, 16 | | Market street and Carroll Holmes, an | electrician, on the charge of tapping the | electric light wires of the company with- | | out authority, which is made a felony | | under section 499A of the Penal Code, | I approved February 22, 1901. Thé Independent Company furnishes | electric light to a jewelry store at 20 Mar- | ket street, and it was recently discovered | | that- the service wire of the jewelry store "hgd been tapped outside the meter und‘ | the current conveved to the rear pgrtion | | of the cafe. A check meter was pht on | | and it is alleged that twenty kilowatts | per day were stolen, being of the value | 'of at least $I. Arzner was taking his | | electric light from the San Francisco Gas | | and Electric Company, and it was discov- | i ered that there was a corresponding drop | | | | | in the bills paid by Arzner to that com- pany after the wires of the Independent Company were tapped. | ployes of the Independent Company | went to the Ferry Cafe on March 24. | One remained in the cafe on watch while ! | another cut off the current under the | Immediately the electric | lights " in rear portion of the cafe, | thirty-one in number, went out, con- | | clusively establishing the fact that these 'hglns were Leing supplied from the i jewelry store. the tapped wires of the Independent Com- pany. | One of the employes was instructed to the cafe for further de- very soon he observe: cofl” of wire over his shoulder enter the cafe. The man who | was Holmes, the electrician, was dis- 1"”""”“] with his overalls on surrounded with fuses, pieces of wire and all the other evidences of having been at work feconnecting the wires of the Independent Company. Just at this moment some | one cut the house wire so as to prevent | any further experiments being made. | This is the second case of the kind, tne | | first having been that of Ignatz Beck, a | druggist, at 1348 Ellis street, who by a | system of tapping the wires, burned a large number of lights which were not | registered at the meter. He was tried | convicted before Judge Fritz. remain around velopments and a man with a | Mrs. Rhodes’ Last Wagnerian Le | ture This Afternoon. Mrs. Charles W. Rhodes will last illustrated sterecopticon her on give lecture Wagner and Bayreuth this_afternoon | 3 o'clock at the Alhambra Theater. It both instructive and should on no ac Insolvent Farmer. A. Rogers, a farmer residing in El D rado County, filed a petition in insolvenc yesterday in the United States District | Court. He owes $3420 and has uo assets. @ e el @ turi and the horse run away. He held the horse while Winchester got out of the vehicle to go to the assistance of the man | and woman. He states that the woman came to him and asked him to take her | out to Dickey's, but he refused. He told | | her to wait by her friend while he went | for assistance; that upon his return with | the ambulance the woman had disappear- | ed. Rozert Winchester, his friend, who ! was with him at the time of the accident | corroborated him. He admitted bott | teams were going at a rapid pace through | the park. | Thomas R. Hayes, father of the deceas- | ed, stated that he not know how { much money his son had on his person at the time of the accident. He testified that he gave him a check for $%0 and $115 in gold the previous day, but was not | | certain whether the check had been placed | lin k. He said he advised his son never | | to Ty large sume of money on his per- { son. MRS. O'CONNELL'S STORY. Mrs. Grace O'Connell, who was Hayes' companion on the morning of the fatal ride, was unable to appear, owing to ill- | ness. Her deposition, which was publish- | e in The Call yesterday, was read to the jury. In her deposition Mrs. O'Connell tell of her ride with Hayes. She states thac | the accident happened about 12 o'clock. | She was of the opinion that the hor: driven by Nelson made the animal Hay was driving nervous and they were thrown out. Mrs. O'Connell states she | was dazed and after she told the men to go for assistance she started for the | | men" DIMMICK TRIAL NEAR THE GLOSE Defense Will Conclude Rebuttal Monday SCOTT’S EMULSION. Morning. Mysterious Women Are Not| Asked to Appear as W itnesses. The third trial of Walter N. Dimmick | is rapidly approaching an end. The prose- | cution announced yesterday afternoon | that the evidence so f as the pecpl.'s side of the case is concerned is all in, and George D. Collins, the defsndant's attorney, stated that it would require hut half am hour on Monday morning in which to complete his rebuttal. The attornevs will probably be given two days in which to present their arguments to the jury and the case will in all probability be sob- mitted Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. When Attorney Peter F. Dunne. for the prosecution, Informed the court ihat his | side of the case was completed there was a look of disappointment visible on many faces in the courtroom. Day after day the court had been crowded with spec- tators who came in the hopes of haar- ing the testimony of the “mysterious whom the prosecution claimed to | be holding in reserve. | These women, it was reported, would give testimony of a sensational charac-| ter. It was said that they would tell of the fast pace which was traveled by Dimmick, how he la hed money ona late suppers, and it was even claimed that they would tell how they extracted tw ty-dollar gold pieces from a dress suit ase owned by the defendant. ‘WhHen the ing Dimmick & summoned to the stand for cross-examination. He was ask- ed in partjcular about a side door to the Mint opening out on Mint avenue, and as to whether or not he had ever used it He declared that on one occasion he had gone out through it in order to test some heavy casti S. He sald positively that was the only occasion that he had ever used the Mint-avenue door. When Atior- ney Dunne read some of his testimony at a previous trial to the effect that he had used this door ‘“occasionally” Dim- mick wi mewhat confused. The prosecution attempted to introdice in evidence the judgments in two prior convictions. Judge de Haven decided that neither was admissible. After some lit- tle argument and a warm exchange of words between Attorneys Dunne and Col- lins the two judgments ggainst Dimmick | were allowed to go in with the consent of the defendant’s attorney. In order to prove Dimmick’s reputation bad the prosecution offered the testimony | and New Orleans THE EVENING OF LIFE Declining years—the time when one is on the other side of the hill, call for constant care in the matter of nutrition. Life then depends so much on the body’s power to repair loss and waste. This power grows less and less. The ability to shake off local disorders and to draw heavily on the body's reserve force are ‘flvi]eges that youth alone can claim. With age comes slow movement, slower operation of the whole body’s forces. live in the past. Ordinary food no longer nourishes. Trifles become ‘burdens and we Poor teeth, perhaps, and improper mastication give the stomach work that it is not supposed to do—the digestion is taxed and even injured when it should be troubled least. Many elderly persons get strength and nourishment from Scott's Emulsion It slips into the blood so quickly that the stomach is not aware of its presence. Not only does Scott’s Emulsion furnish nourishment itself, but it helps to digest other food. It aids in the proper distribution of food benefits—simplifies the stomach’s work. Moreover, the lime and soda contained in Scott’s Emulsion in the form of hypophosphites nourish the bones and reduce the acid in the blood which feeds rheumatism. We'll send you a sample free upon request. of John D. McKey, Perkins, W G. Manuel, John B arl and Jacob Bloomline, all reputable business men. They, however, had formed an adverse opinion of Dimmick principally because of some personal business transaction. The following other witnesses were also e amined: P. T. Donnolly, C. H. Moore, P. Hawe, captain of the watch at the Mint; D. Edward Collins, dward Clark, F. H. Stockweather, Captain Fi patrick, W. K. Cole, Thomas B. O'Neil, C. 8. Arms, Adrian Ryan, Charles E. Par- cell, H. P. Bush, Benjamin Day and George Roberts, director of the Mint. iy i Through San Joaquin Valley's Blos- soming Orchards. Crescent City Express, Southern Pacl the ferry at 8:00 a. m, for Parlor car, r large double windows, making it tion car. - Miles of beauty at clining chairs, obae SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., New York. Grand Jury Indicts White. « Th d Jury returned a rday true arging W' H. White, the ab: ding the Board of Public Works, embezzlement. The indictment. as placed on the cret file in J 3 ¥'s court, charges White with approp g $9000 of the city’s money tc own use. Ball was fixed at $3000 bench warrant was ordered is: t of White, whose where is unknows. e Cook Assaulited by Two Men. Walter H. Moor cook, wids badly beaten by two men who met him in front of his residenc at 13 at 9 Minna street yes- yelock. Moore's as the work had be ¥ red man applied yunty Hospital for treat- eason could be advanced for Sluys is a pai ration. demand both one of his be | Cliff House for assistance. Following is an extract from her deposition: and it seemed to me Of course 1 not know ey were strangers to me, ;:‘lyths)' had driven off. So I started back to | the Clift House for assistance. I was so dazed | and confused by the terrible accident that the ' | events at this time are not very clear to my | mind. I realized my position alone there in th road with an injured man, and I wanted imme- Qlate assistance. 1 recall reaching the CIIff | House, and I saw the waiter and the hostler, | | and 1 asked the waiter to telephone for my brother-in-law and tell him to come out. I next aked him to ring up the Emergency Hospital | and see if they had left with the ambulance to | get Mr. Hayes, and they reported that he was | there in a very critical condition. I waited there for my brother-in-law, who arrived about 3 o'clock and brought me home. WILL OF LATE C. E. HAYES. Victim of Midnight Ride Leaves En- | tire Estate to Father. The will of Charles . Hayes, who while | riding in the park with Mrs. James ' 0'Connell early last Tuesday morning was thrown from his rig and killed, was filed for probate yvesterday. It disposes of an estate consisting of real estate in Fresno and San Francisco counties and stock in local concerns estimated to be worth be- tween $50,000 and $75,000. The sole legatee of the unfortunate pro- | moter, under the will, which is holo- graphic and bears date of September 2, 1895, is Thomas R. Hayes, father of the deceased. The latter petitioned for let- ters of administration upon his son's es- tate, stating in his petition that he and | his wife, Mary Hayes, are the only sur- viving relatives of the deceased. E——— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. VACCINATION AND DANDRUFF. | There Is as Sure Prevention of Bald- ness as There Is of Smallpox. It is now accepted that vaccination ren- ders the vaccinated person exempt from | smallpox; or at worst, he never has any- thing but the lightest kind of a case. ! Now as sure a preventive and cure for . dandruff, which causes falling hair and baldness, has been discovered—Newbro's Herpicige. 1t_kills thc dandruff germ. | C. H. Reed, Victor, Idaho, says: ‘‘My- self and wife have been troubled with dandruff_and falling hair for several years. We tried remedies without effect until we used Newbro's Herpicide, two bottles of which cured us.” undreds of similar eignonlnh. 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