The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII=NO. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SYNDICATE “CORNERS” ENTIRE SILVER OUTPUT OF MEXICO AND WILL I)ICTATE PRICES TO NATIONS USING WHITE METAL DOUGHERTY WIN BRTTLE CONFESSES 10 PERJURY WITH TURKS 7O | Six Ottoman Offi- Fireman Agrees to cers Among the =~ Divulge Name Slain. of Guilty. ‘ Sultan Loses Two Hun- Admits That He Swore, dred Soldiers at Falsely Against Wil- Logodasch. liam Blakeley. e Ab’ & Gt Promises to Go on the Stand e 25 Atoul 1o dend 2| 54 Expose Peddler of Formal Ultimatum to Bulgaria. Questions. | LONDON, May 4.— i oo The Rome correspond- | t ent of the Times says eight Italian warships have been dispatched to Salonica—two bat- tleships, two cruisers, two torpedo cruisers and two torpedo boat destroyers. They carry | ;.. 54 s 220 guns, 155 officers A lean brea and 2534 men. ety : B T INSURGENTS Por USES BLAKELEY'S NAME, R 4 " g st gh m th i 8 r Apers. a & S e Dong A v ey iy Doug RS c s sy DOUGHEETY CONFESSES of the three witnesses, the broth ime, assu ring nxiety OF AUSTRIAN SHIPS. diate co 1 confe to keep his w the guil vesterds MISSION sy ord and all | fireman was ab- | and could not be | e men wiom he hzll Magnet, which snd at the treatment ( d tells a strmemom.u a | sction with the case. 1 the Dougherts ay following the examina- came to me and said that & had been called before Fire Chief Sul. | 1 o state from whom he received ihe | = 4 pers containing the examinations. : | nt T | s e told the Chief that it I ven them to him, and assured « | me that the matter would go no further. REFUSES TO TELL TRUTH. “On Wednesday, just before the investi- gation, I went to Dougherty and told him | | that I would not stand by his story. He ol A ald all right. that he would go alicad - n stick it out just the same, for he had gone too far to turn back. C°’f‘3,‘”“,?f“ “LGABIANS Saturday might Frank Sehmitz, Tom e . Corbett, Jo Blakeley, Jim Brown and m, 3 @ | zelf called on Dougherty. I said that he £ events nr " e to tell the truth, but tha: :f ¢ mm em t a} was shielding his brother, who is in = & by hirelings of Fire ment, I would throw 2 committee exceeds g 14 resign. rto perpetrated iy venient ns, which name of t his brother and swore that 1 meect us Sunda id tell every- chmitz heard him say this and ’~ id hu( if he failed to clear up the mat- at it s shicld toward Mobammedan inhabit- | ter he would take the stand against hm\.4 ts of Macedonian villages and ;.-nmpuj “‘I know you don't know anything wreck raiflways with dynamite have ‘ZLh“»H it i Dougherty, ‘and I promise showr tics sent out by | to tell everything." But he failed to keep e committees are capable of proceeding. | his word to-day the face of all these proofs Blakeley's statement was corroborated ousness the disaster as an intolerable surpri: it | by all of the other witnesses to the con- nce at the firchouse. lonica com MOTHERLESS FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD PREFERS DEATH TO HER SURROUNDINGS Fatally Wounds Herself With a Revoiver in the Cellar of a House Where She Had Always Been Treated With Kindness and From Which She Had Fled to Avoid Being Taken Home by Her Father SA SNEEEN | CLEVELAND aMILES AND 1o PLEASED from ba rseif to be unlov home she knew fear « from hedwho im his ad chastised h all a powerfu s strength, pret- 1} ‘ene Otto, a 15-year-old child shc f fatal an early u t1 Cook street, in the ¢ the home of a woman who kind to her In the past. In this poor girl had shivered il ight, exposed.to the fog and wind, fear- & to make her nee know t-she be taken back te her father house and her father's blows When d had coine and the people in the house above were tirring she chose what appeared to her | rnative except a resumption and placing a revolver to sllet into her body. s with her father, Richard Otto; her Richard Jr., and Mr. and Mrs, Cantor, latter of whom is Grove street. Before that | | time the father and Irene lived at 14 Cook street, w nother sister, who since left the father's care. The neig that Irene was a peculiar child ways. She was hoydenish in an | 1d took more pleasure in sually e ged in by boys 1l pastimes engaged in by girls own age had only one steady playmate, a boy 8 vears of age, the son of Mrs. G. edman, who lives at 153 Cook street Stedman had ways been kind and her home wa when the Ottos 1 LACKED COMPANIONSHIP. to Grove street and to the motherless child always welcome to he ved on Cook street. the 1 anionship seemed to affect Irene gr and her sister saild that the family ad great difficulty in keeping her at home. According to the story told by the child, her father had given her a severe beating only a few days before | siie left home, and when she went away on Baturday 15t the injunction of her sister she determined never to return, even if shic had to end her life to prevent it Early Saturday afternoon she told her married sister that she wanted to go to the Chutes, having obtained tickets from her schoolteacher. Her sister forbade her to leave the house, and in order to prevent her from dolng so hid her dress. The little girl cried and eventually the sister supplied her clothes to her, but warned her that her father would be un- gry with her if she went out. Irene paid no attention t6 this, but went to the Chutes in company with the two 'itn‘dm'ln children. Instead of returning home went to the Stedman house, on street, and remained there until brother came in search of her, her As soon as she heard her brother's voice she ran out of the back door, climbed the fence and sought refuge in a neighboring house. Here she was welcomed and shel- tered until 10 o'clock, when she an- nounced her intention of returning to Mrs. Stedman’s and passing the night there. Instead of arousing Mrs. Stedman she crawled into an open cellar under the house. Here she lay down on the damp sand and brooded over her unhappy lot. Tha brather failing to find her. the dreading to return | 1 living for the last three | 'Non-Committal as to Third -Term Aspirations. |Ignores Opportunity to Deny That He Will | Enfer Race. | e S dently Delights Sage of Princeton. PRINCET( Preside monst the W conver half satio phrase “You m hat = being in + moidabie: ampaign | WITH A PLEASED SMILE. The sage of Prince | suggestion w him. but he “Oh freetol -in w I attach had seen ceELLar in which WHICH Ty ; Sn oo TlN‘q °cScurme H . v oo | FORTUNATE ( L WHC THE WRATH OF HI WHOSE HOUSE THE TR/ ) FAT AC ALLY R FATHER: DY OCCURR SHOT HERSELF, WOM/ tial cnough to say about m GESTURES DEPRECATINGLY. father came to Mrs. Stedman about 10 o'clock at night a his daughter. He was assured she was JI.nl there, but he doubted it d returned some time later with Policeman Ottesen | of the O'Farrell-street = Again | Mre. Stedman assured them that the girl | | was not there and offered to let po- liceman search the house, but this he did not think necessar. After thei depa it occurred to Mrs. Stedn 1 that the ild might be | hiding somewhere around the house, so| | she went to the rear vard and called her, | asking her 4o come and share her chil- | dren's bed if e did not care to go home. These kindly offers were heard by the | desolate girl shivering in the | but she feared it was a trap to | from her hiding place and deliver | to her enraged father and she dark cellar, lure her her over kept Believing that Irene had found shelter at | sitence. | some neighbor's house, | went back to bed. ing before 5 o'clock to prepare I band’s breakfast. While doing heard the report of a pistol, an Mrs. thing heavy next door. A secon ward she caught the sound of from the cellar. and recognizing voice, she ran out on the street mon assistance. A paper carrier front of the house and to him sk { known that a girl had shot her derneath the house. | 8. H. Hooke, a carpenter living doors below. sensible form of the girl from th, “She was taken Into the house the child had taken poison. to the Park Emergency Dr. J. W. Murphy discovered t had been fatally wounded in the gency Hospital, where she now 1 death momentarily expected. Richard Otto, father of irene, ployed as a machinist for W. T. & Co. He denies that he was eve: hasty search made for the wound, Stedman She arose in the morn- her hus- so she d for a moment thought it was the fall of some- d after- groans Iren to sum- was in he made self un- | From there she went to the house of a few and told him of her fears. He ran to the Stedman house and the paper carrier bearing the almost in- met e cellar. POISON SUSPECTED. and a but it was not found and it was decided that The ambu- Jarice was called for and the patient taken Hospital, where hat she side. He had her removed to’'the Central Emer- les with is em- Garratt T brutal to the child and says he was at all times what a loving father should be. On sat- house | nd demanded | married d | [ cellar. former Mack come renomination of Mr. ( urday morning he claims to have told his | ughter to keep Irene at home, as he wished to take her down town with him when he returned at night to buy her some clothing. When he found her gone on his return he says he first sent his after her Cook and of as the one sensible t do it will oceur places Mr. Cleveland son and son-in-law to ol tiie- put street and when they returned without | nomination, and the P her he went there himself, as he did not | be interested to know ¥ like the of remaining away all night He claims he had no intention of , but ralsed beating her and was not angry at her in | ting gesture. | the least. He and his family were bitter | € e i | against Mrs. Stedman, claiming that she | r. ( ““““‘";'_\ Bad that | exercised a bad influence over the s g 2 - e little girl and that it was her fault that bl ement in Prir ' ¥ the girl could not be kept at home. 5 = 3 Mrs. Stedman, on the contrary, con- |Some it is ;’C‘Jn“dilr“dm::fl;ofi_: e aiie . tends that all the kindness she had shown | €are to sur Ak WAl ot 24 i : life for a return into the whirl of po the child in the past was simply out of tics, even should the call come for you to do so.” Again Mr. Cleveland waved his hand deprecatingly and replied: «“It is true that I am very happy here.” REFRAINS FROM A DENIAL. He did not add, however, that a new summons to duty would find him unwill- ing to heed the call. 1t would have been easy for him to say that he was out of public life forever, but he neither said it nor hinted it. It was an interview significant rather from what Mr. Cleveland refrained from sa: ing than for what he actually said. I tried to induce him to speak of Mr. Bry- an’s efforts to continue to direct the party tenderness for a poor, abused, motherless child. She says thal on Saturday night she repeatedly urged Irene to go home and her husband even offered to go there with her, but she refused. Mrs. Stedman said she had no suspicion that the child had sought refuge in the cellar and the first intimation she had of her presence there was when she heard the report of the revolver. The neighbors on Cook street all speak in the highest terms of Mrs. Stedman and say her attentions to the child were prompted only by kind- ness, but they are not so well disposed to- ward the father. Irene had often com- plained to them that her father beat her brutally at times and among the chiidren she frequently expressed the intention of making away with herself. PREPARES FOR DEATH. When Irene left her father's home Sat- urday she took with her a revolver which belonged to him. He discovered its loss that night when he started to go in search of her. She carried the weapon in the bosom of her dress and showed it to was trenching upon topics which he did | not think it would be wise or timely to discuss now. Captain E. W. Brady. WASHINGTON, May 3.—Captain E. W. Prady. for many years a well-known newspaper correspondent in Washington, several people on Cook street, including | dfed to-day of Bright's disease, aged o4 Mrs. Stedman. She said it was not load- | years. ed and she was carrying it only to fright- A it en the children with. When she took the revolver she took also one cartridge and with this she loaded the revolver some time during the night she passed in the When she heard Mrs. Stedman moving about in the house she realized that in a few hours she would be taken back to her home and rather than face that ordeal she concluded to kill herself. Although the family was notified ear| in the morning that Irene had shot he; self, none of them- visited her at the ho: pital until late in the nd nor of them appeared particularly affected i the tragedy further than to all blame in the matter. At the hospital vesterday the child was conscious only at time and during the lucid intervals she told of leaving “ome against her sister's injunction and fear- ing to return lest she would receive a beating. She sald she lay in ‘the cellar all night trying to sleep, but it was too cold there and she never closed her eves. ternoon deny \Growth of His Boom Evi-|: policies, but he again warned me that I | Trust H olds Wealth of Mines. ‘Guggenheims . Control the . Market. Mexican Gov-= . ernment ; Aids. the white meta @ exchange rates Mexico > Mexican Gover ning of the tr g of set aside NO NEED FOR ALLIANCE siive oducts ar, of wh ces came 0 nheims. MEXICA‘X GOVERNMENT AIDS. - | commenced making a | Mexico a me ago on the assisting the ited States Commission. In this work Government went out serve the Guggenhe market price of their smelters | stores of silver are Wher | the Guggenheims census was completed a 80 the Guggen position to raise the price 'hey had a certaingd that 0,000,300 silver dollars in Mexi sut $4 4 per capit uch an an of sil t | of their control being barely Mexie needs of a circulat all that was necessary f heims to do w rease tI the sil produced b | thelr cor the metal would tablished s 2 | NATIONS PAY THE PRICE ~The Guggen f=ed - and the Un i N are s ! | decic ver it depreci be ¢ ived, si the T s up . | metal for two | demand woul Leute. | the firm has su Colo rado that itscan influence the silve | ket in the United State st a | United Metal Selling Compa 1 o4 | the coppe | At ast is a reali - | Unitea Stat . dearer mo - the Philippi A \heima will suoply ik