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

“YOLUME XCHI=-NO. 187. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CROWLEY SCANDAL SHIFTS TO BAR OF POLICE COURT Mrs. Seligman’s Son Arrested on Complaint of Doctor’s Wife for Alleged Disturbance. CUERRILLA WARFARE WILL BE CONBUCTED GHINGT THE TURKS New Plan of Campaign Outlined by Mace- -donian Leaders. - . P whole ha I - railw g stations. - e of Mac r oted more y s s sacrifice on the e poy 1 than by a general s improbable that the un- ce of the Albanians con- s decision, as in the event Allgemeine of the Sultan, resigna- Sixth t Mitrovitza h the wh reious sente cars risonmnt e Speaker Casts Deciding Vote, VICTORIA, B. }., April —The Brit- Soveinment was saved from mih Curtis that “dissolu- the session to-da 17, and the Speak- er’s vote in favor ofithe Government neg- stived the motion. | Mrs she | Several the Spegker casting his vote on | | his attitude. AKLAND, April 15.—In her own home, at her bedside and in th ence of Rev. Ernest E. Ba- pastor of the First Presby n Church, Mrs. Alma A threatened last evening with de violence unless she should the name of Mrs an in relation to the domestic dif- of Mrs. Crowley and her . D. D. Crowles physician ar Such is owley made when 181 m d club man. tion which Mrs. » swore to-day to the accu. C g complaint for the arrest of Harvey Selig- f 19 years of age, a student at the Oakland High School, and son of, the aforesald Mrs. Anna Sellgman. The war- rant of arrest merely recites an alleged urbance of the peace. Mrs. Crowley, Baker and young Seligman furnish incidental detalls to the narrative of v meeting that occurred in Crowley’s boudojr. This fresh chapter to the Crowley con- troversy follows as a 'sequel to the en- counter which took place last Thursday d br. the very a evening, when Mrs. Crowley made an as- sault with a whip upon Dr. Crowley a he was departing from Mrs. Seligman’s residence at 58 Caledonia avenue. It was in the guise of a protector of his mother’s name that young Seligman went 8 o'clock last evening to the Crowles residence at 1164 Alice street and demand- ed to see Mrs. Crewley. At that moment the physician’s wife was in bed, where had been confined for several days. soon as young Seligman was announc- cd she sent for Dr. Baker, as pastor of the church with which she is affiliated. friends of the doctor’s ~ spouse were also at the. residence. MRS. CROWLEY’S STORY. There is little difference in the stories d of the encounter, except that young ligman does not make ‘his remarks » threatening as Mrs. Crowley and tor. young man stood towering over we,” said Mrs. Crowley to-night,” “and houted that he would resort to personal | viclence unless I should stop maligning his mother. He repeated the remark sev- eral times and was very threatening in It was because of his dec- that he would do me violence that I felt compelled to appeal to the iuw for protection. tions Continued on Page 2, Column 2. | | | | | on the race problem of the South. ter Anna | hus- | the prominent | | | | | | | i | | SOUTH RESPONES T0 MA. CLEVELARD'S | BID FOR 175 FAVOR Editors Laud His Utter- " anceson the Negro Problem. Special Diepatch to The Call NEW YORK, April 15.—Southern news- papers commenting in a v | manner former Pr in this city are upon land's address eveni E tors in the South express the belief that | Cleveland’s utterances will tend to a bet. nding by the North of the ude of the South toward the ne- | last unde real atti Speaking of Grover Cleveland's speech | on the negro question, Clark Howell, ed- ftor of the Atlanta Constitution, said to- It was an excellent speech and the best ITesentation of the negro question that I have read in some time. If the North- | ern people will take the advice Mr. Cleve- land that will do m to solve the negro problem than anything else that might done in a hundred years. Mr, Cleveland has proved | himself both a friend of the negro and a | friend of the South.” ives and act upon it, | be | | The following is from the Richmond Times’ dispatch: *First of all, Mr. Cleve- land has discovered, as many others of his class have discovered, that the term | ‘prejudice’ does not apply to the white man of the South in his feeling toward the negro. It is raclal instinct, and that fnstinct is the same wherever w are found. It is more ‘imperious,’ as Mr. Cleveland says, In the South than in the | North. We of the South have been more | particular on this score, because we have | had to be. We must draw the line sharp- ly. We must insist and do insist upon complete separation, for anything short of that threatens the integrity of our race.” The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark says: “Former President Cleveland's. country- men know him well enough to expect nothing but a statesmanlike utterance from him on any subject he undertakes | to discuss. His remarks in New York at | a meeting in the Interest of the Tuskegee Institute show the size of the man. He spoke as & friend of the negro, but he made it very clear at the same time that he spoke aiso as a friend of the Southern white man, whose feelings with regard to the race question he respected and ap- preciated, and whose paramount rights he recognized.” The Mobile (Ala.) Register says: “Mr. Cleveland’s address upon the negro problem, while it cannot offend the most sensitive man of the North, voices pre- cisely, yet fully, the Southern view. The calmness of his judgment 1s founded upon a patient study of the facts. He has been honest with facts. Mr. Cleveland strikes the very note, and, coming from a North- ern man, it has a welcome sound NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 15. — The State Senate to-night, after a spirited de- bate, adopted resolutions endorsing the speech on the negro question delivered by former President Cleveland at Nw York last night. The resolution declares that the ‘Stgtements and utterances of former Presidént Cleveland upon thé race ques- tion are true, and that if followed by the nation the question will be settled in ac- cordance with truth and justice., Wild Riot Follows Avengers Set Fire to ! hot fled are hidden in places where they night in th: | fugitive | knife at his throat. negro was brought to Joplin and placed in MO HANES NEGRO D USES TOREH a Lynching in Missouri. the Dwellings of Blacks, Joplin's Entire Colored Pop-| ulation Is Driven From the City. — JOPLIN, Mo., April 15.—For hours to- | night Joplin was in the hands of a mob | and maddened men and boys gave full| rein to their hatred of the negro race. | Following the lynching of Thomas Gil- | vard, a colored tramp, 20 vears of age,| fter he had confessed the murder of Po- liceman Leslie, hundreds of rioters at-| tacked the negro districts of the city, | burning dwellings and driving the inmates | bevond the city limits. A frenzy had seized upon the populace and attempts of | cool-headed men to stem the tide of fury were wasted. can be found in Joplin. Those that h ve | + | cannot be discovered by the white rioters. | A mob took Gilyard from the city jail to-night and hanged him to a telegraph | pole at the cotner of Second and Wall | streets, two blocks from the jail. The negro had confessed the murder of Po-| ho was shot dead last Kansas City Southern Rail- vard while endeavoring to arrest several negroes suspected of theft. MURDER OF POLICEMAN. Leslie had orderd séveral negroes who had taken refuge in a boxcar to surrender, and when they refused he fired several shots at the car. During the shooting a | negro slipped from the car, and, stealing up behind the policeman, shot him through the head. | At 3 o’clock this afternoon Lee Fullerton, aged 21, located the fugitive in a slaugh- l‘ ter-hotse. Jusg easw-4* Joplin.. Fhe negro | was armed with a rifle and defied arrest. | Fullerton slipped into the structure unob- | rved and crept up behind the negro. | ddenly he sprang at the unsuspecting and before resistance could be | made he had Gilyard on his back, with a The negro then sur- rendered his rifle, and, pointing the weapon at him, Fullerton marched him out of the building. With the assistance of another man the | licemany L se News of the capture spread rapidl Jail. and the jail hundreds of men. “Lynch him!” PLEADS WITH THE LYNCHERS. City Attorney Decker mounted the ja:l’ steps and made a strong plea in behalf of | law and order. This served to temporari- | Iy stay the mob, but did not appease it, nd a short time after Decker's speech the mob started in to batter in the side of the jail. Every effort was made to| rrevent an entrance, puc without avail, «rd within fifteen minutes the infuriated men had gained entrance to the jail and secured the trembling negro. As the culprit was dragged forth, City | Attorney Decker agsain interfered and | urged\that the negro be given a ‘trial. | For a half hour he spoke and the mob | listened to him attentively, with the negro in its custody. At one time it seemed | that the City Attorney would win, as members of .the mob began dispersing, but | suddenly & rush was made for the spot | where the prisoner was being held and | he was dragged two blocks from the jail. MEN TRY TO SAVE NEGRO. | A rope was fastehed around his neck, and after the rope had been thrown over | the crossarm of a telegraph pole a score of men attempted to pull the negro from the ground. As many more seized him and pulled to prevent him being hanged. For some moments it was a veritable tug- of-war, but reinforcements on the fres end of the rope proved the stronger, and the negro, despite his protestations of in- nocence, was finally swung into the air and strangled to death, while shouts of satisfaction went up from the mob. The lynching of the negro served to oaly | temporarily satisfy the indignation of the | mob, and later hundreds of men again ascembled and rioted through the negro | section of the city, burning houses and stoning negroes and finally driving every | negro from the confines of Joplin. The police were powerless. RIQTERS USE THE TORCH. The first act of the mob after hanging the negro was to demand the release from jail’ of a local character known as “Hickory Bill,”” who was under arrest on the charge of assaulting 2 negro. In the hope that this would appease the mob the prisoner was set' free. But the rioters did not disperse. Instead a rush was made through' Main street and every ne- gro was frightened off the street and fled to the northern part of the city, where | the colored population resides. In this way the negroes were drivem from al! parts of the city to the negro section. Then the mob charged down upon the section. Stones were thrown, doors and windows of negroes’ houses were broken in and finally several houses were fired. The fire department responded, but many of the houses were burned to the ground. The mob made endeavors to prevent the department extinguishing the flames, and was partially successful. All the officers of the city, township and county were called out, but the mob speedily surrounded n_\: There were cries ur) | | te to-nignt not a negro. | SHREWD ADUENTURESS TAKEN AFTER BATTLE WITH POLICE Mrs. Adelaide Lloyd Smith, Wanted for Illegal Oil sTransactions, Placed in Prison. | SUBMARINE: BOAT WILL G0 IN QUEST OF THE NORTH POLE Wireless Telegraphy to Convey Tidings of Expedition. Spectal Cable to The Call and New Tork Herzld. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company BERLIN, April 15.—A daring naval ex- pedition is being organized by two Ger- man explorers, who are determined to reach the North Pole. All conventional methods of transportation have been abandoned. A specially constructed submarine boat is expected to overcome the difficulties hitherto encountered. Wireless telegraphy also is to be em- ployed. The leaders of the expedition are Herr de Scholl of Munich and Dr. Anschuetz Kuempfe. The latter has received suf- fielent financial support for the construc- tion of a novel submarine boat, which will penetrate beneath icebergs to the far North. To aid the expedition Herr Scholl has organized a separate expedi- tion to erect a wirecless telegraph station and observatory between the seventy- eighth and eightieth degrees of latitude. This station will communicate with the Anschuetz submarine boat, which likewise will be equipped with ‘wireless telegraph apparatus. . The big electrical firm of Siemens & Halske of this city, operating the Braun wireless system, is backing Herr Scholl and is preparing special instruments for the wireless telegraph stations, which will make meteorological, magnetic, oceanographic and other scientific inves- tigations. The results will be conveyed by means of wireless telegraphy to the civi- lized world. @it @ rioting. Mayor Trigg ran from corner to corner, and, mounting boxes, made earnest appeals to the mob to cease. but beyond cheering the Mayor vociferously the mob swept on and the depredations continued. The saloons were hurriedly closed by the Mayor. After the hundreds of frenzied men composing the mob had vented their wrath in the north end of the eity, they rushed to the southern end where lived a number of negroes. Their houses were vacant and not a negro could be found. Three more housese were fired and two were consumed. All efforts to reason with the rioters were futile, as apparently a frenzy had seized upon them. The streets were thronged and at 11:15 o'clock the entire | swept them aside and proceeded with the | city was in an uproar. So far as known -+ — RS. ADELAIDE LLOYD SMITH, for whom the police of a dozen citles have been searching and whose career as an adventuress has not been eclipsed in many moons, according to the statements of detectives, has been run to earth at last. Handsomely attired and resplendent with jewels, she was captured after an exciting chase last evening and landed in the City Prison. To Detective Tom Gibson of the local department is due the credit for the capture. Offfcer George Douglass assisted him in the ar- rest. The woman, wanted for a long list of crimes, recognized the detective before he identified her. The meeting occurred on Market street and Mrs. Smith tried to elude the officer by jumping on a passing car. Gibson saw the move and followed her, boarding quickly and taking a seat alongside of her. Both were strangers to ch other and it became a game of wit. le woman realized that denials were uscless and when Gibson read one of t warrants, charging her with the embez- zlement of thousands of dollars, she ad- mitted her identity and in sflence planned an escap SEEKS CROWD'S SYMPATHY. The car had reached Kearny - street, when the officer beckoned his prisoner to follow him. She smiled graciously as she from her seat and stepped to the Then her cunning exerted itself. With a bound she was beyond her custo- dian’s re: and rushed wildly in the di rection of the sidewalk. Gibson started in pursuit and succeeded in catching her arm. arose street. shortly before 7 the streets were thronged with people. A large crowd, at- tracted by the incident, gathered. The woman battled with Gibson and he used his strength in subduing her. Mrs. Smith then resorted to a clever se to effect her escape. Single-handed, she knew that she was powerless and she counted on the assistance of the crowd. A word of appeal to the throng brought a wave of indignation against t this | happened ock and while e man who S I ST R WOMAN WANTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT OF A FORTUNE ON STOCK DEALS, WHO ELUDED POLICE AND PINKERTON SLEUTHS FOR | MONTHS AND WAS CAPTURED BY DETECTIVE TOM GIBSON. . M WIS 175 READ VRGEINE UPON ) MENBER Body Found in Barrel That of a Supposed Informer. e NEW YORK, ‘April '15.—Eight Italians, | who the police assert are members of both the Mafia and of a big counterfeiting gang, were arrested to-night by detec- tives of the central office staff. They are belleved to have been implicated in the murder of the man whose unidentified body was found crowded into a barrel yesterday morning at Eleventh street, near Avenue D. Inspector McClusky sa that for months he had been working in conjunction with the United States secret service in keeping the members of this gang under strict surveillance. Three of the secret service men declare that on Monday night last they saw the murdered | man in company with three of the sus- pects in a butcher shop in Stanton street. Inspector Schmittberger said to-might that the murdered man's identity would scon be disclosed, and that he has in- formation which caused him to be almost certain that the man was decoyed here from out of town to be put out of the way, as it was believed he Intended to | betrgy the secrets of the Mafia. [ L] at that hour no fatalities had occurred, although ‘many persons had received minor injuries. CARTHAGE, Mo., April 15.—Thomas Gilyard, the negro lynched in Joplin to- night, had confessed that he murdered Leslie and he was crippled by a bullet fired by Leslie in last night's fight. Early to-day - Sheriff Owen hurried off to the county jail Dan Bullard, a negro who was with Gilyard just before the police- man was killed. To-night Bullard was hurried away from Carthage for fear of an attack on the county jail | Sought to detain her. “Help me, help me: for God's sake!" $he crted. “This man will kill me.” Fortunately Gibson was quicker than the spectators, for he showed his star and shouted that the woman was his prisoner. It was dificult | to make many of the witnesses, who were | about to Interfere, understand and pass | unheeded the woman's prayer. She had | everything i her favor. She is above the ordinary in appearance and the | wealth of diamonds sparkled fascinatingly | and made an appeal of their own.” Many | afterward confessed to the detective that they thought an attempt was being made to rob the woman and that they were about to seize him. Had they done so the prisoner, so long at large, might probably still be a fugitive. | FIGHTS THE DETECTIVE. Mrs. Smith tried to enter a saloon. Then | she rushed into a shoe store, all the time appealing to the crowd to come to her | rescue. It was not until Officer George | Douglass came along that the detective felt secure and the fair prisoner gave up | hope of freedom and was half dragged, | half carried to the Hall of Justice. Mrs. Smith is wanted in this city and | the Northern States for egbezzlement and | obtaining money wnder false pretenses. | She is the same woman who figured years | ago as a singer, recently was used as a | decoy to coax a fortune from Mrs. Oliver | N. Moxey, the aged bride, and later launched a gigantic scheme, which is said by the police to be fraudulent, to plant oysters in Willapa Harbor. Besides these are her oil ventures, by which, it is al- leged, “she has swindled people out of thousands of dollars and amassed a for- tune. She is truly a woman of adventure and the police expect a deluge of com- plaints when the news of her arrest is | spread broadcast. There are already halt a dozen warrants in existence and the po- lice have advised many other complain- ants to refrain from giving the case pub- licity by asking for warrants until the ar- rest was made. Some time ago Mrs. Smith began to sell stock of the Gray Gander Oil Company in Tacoma, Seattle and other northern cities. She represented that she had an option on 30,000 shares of such stock, and, it is sald, collected nearly $50,000 from credu- lous buyers, all’of whom are now clamor- Continued on Page 2, Column 6.