The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1903, Page 2

0 —3 1 - | Criminal flttacki‘ Sudden and Furious. | Appalling Scene in Captain’s Office. The Ca Special Dispatch to OLSOM. July % —Bleed- ing as infl ed from wou by the desperadoes made them captives, | with travel, but glad of release outiaw whe worn the band | used them as human hields ag guns of pursuers, a number pr the officials have returned terrifying nst the the guards ar tell thrilling stories of their lan and Sea jock this thing nd some overalls en t consisted hers. Their orl ard Klengendorf is an ne. He was met by a Knives Gleam in the Hands | of Murderers bec »st. They ow out the key, as us and blow the post When they got rmc zed the rifies and re vers Gordon and Convic »ds asked me where the ammunitior was kept, but I said 1 did not know. Then i with h that the ammu- key. I told him that I had d Gordon said to smash the lock- rs open w the butt end of a rifle They and the ammunition was view. Woods asked me what kind of fon was the right sort to use in d in the revolvers, but I told was not posted on that, as I b been de the armory for two Then Woods showed me a box of artridges and asked me Af that was right for the rifie he had. I told him yes, but Convict Falls IDhen Bullets Are Hurtling N they marched us up over the hill by the prison orcharc they threatened to kill all of if any shots were fired by any of the guards. We arrived at Mormon Island btridge, and it was there that three or four shots were fired by a guard, whom I since find was Guard Ryan. The convicts became excited and ‘Redshirt’ Gordon fell to the ground and dropped his rifie. The rest of the convicts hurried us along, and we saw Gordon in the rear of us picking up his rifle and then walking to was “ the woods. That was the last we saw of him. I think he was wounded at that time “They forced us along with them after they had released the Warden and Cap- tain Murphy before we got to the bridge. After passing the bridge they went about one and a half miles along the side of the river to the house of a rancher. I have been told to-day that his name is Foster. “They captured Foster's place and got a number of sacks filled with food, and aiso took a big wagon and four horses from the place. They made Foster drive the horses, and a little farther along the road captured two farm hands, whose names 1 do not know. “Before we got to Foster's place the convicte had made the guards change clothing with them, and at Foster's house the rest of them secured civilian clothes. The party after leaving Foster's place consisted of twelve convicts, seven guards, Foster and the two farm hands. The con- viets made us get in the wagon with them, and when we had gone a little dis- tanee they would make some of the guards get out and walk in the hot sun, and they laughed and jested. realized that we had to humor them, as to provoke them meant death to us. We traveled in this way until 2 o’clock vesterday afternoon, when we reached Pilot Hill. The convicts drove up to the small hotel and surrounded the place. They demanded food for themselves and for the officers and others they had in their power.« The people in the hotel had no alternative but to comply. The con- victs mounted an armed guard around the piace and two of the captives and four of ihe convicts would be sent into the din- ing-room to get something to eat. By this means the whole crowd was furnish. ed with & meal. After every one had eat en the convicts forced us to go to the ause | h 'TExci;ing March - of Savage Cap- e 3 ! = * tors. bis + 1(&7 of the hotel and they sat down in | the shade near a spring. One of them got a box of cigars from the hotel and they smoked and joked. They gave the cap- tives some of the cigars to smoke. Fugitives Sing Joyously and ' Crack Jokes. “THEY constantly made threats that they would kill the first man of the convicts who desert- ed them. The plan was for all'of them to stick together. They told us that in the event of a posse catching up with them that the captured men they had with them would be used to serve as shields. runs from Auburn to Colma arrived at the Pllot Hill Hotel. The convicts asked the driver if he had seen gny armed posses on the way and he told them that he had not. A little while after, a buggy drove up to the hotel with a man and a woman and child In it. It came in the di- rection we had traveled. They asked the man if he had scen any posses in pur- suit and he told them he had not. They did not mclest the stage driver or the ople in the buggy. The convicts were jubilant frame of mind. They sang in and danced and shouted with glee. “ “There is no one In pursuit of us and no one to head us off, We are all right,” they said. Then the convicts told the captured that they intended to force every one along with them until they got to the woods and then they would let us go and stick together. “*We will stick together and die to- gether,” they yelled, ‘and the first man to desert will be killed.” “The convicts then forced us into the wagon and they climbed in and told Fos- ter to drive ahead. He did so and we had gone but thirty yards from the hotel when there was a fusillade of bullets from each side of the road. With curses and yells the convicts grabbed the helpless guards in their midst and held them In front of them as shields. ““Woods grabbed hold of me and cursing at me said: ‘Jack, I have danced to your mueic long enough; now you dance to mine. You get in front of me, — — vou, and I will fire over your shoulder.” T got in front of him and there was a_ sec- We au‘“"d volley of bullets from the sides of the road and the convicts sent a shower of bullets in reply. I suddenly dropped my hat and as the bullets distracted Woods" attention I told him to wait a minute. Then I suddenly jumped over the side of the wagon into the road. “As 1 did so Convict Seavis, whom we call ‘Smoky,’ yelled out to me with a fierce command for me to come to him. He had a rific leveled at me and he was trying to eject an empty cartridge from it and put in a fresh one. I saw. that he was not used to the rifie and that it had jammed it and 1 ran to the rear as fast s I could. Convict Miller cursed at me nd ordered me to stop, but I kept on going. and then Miller fired three shots at me, but he missed me. N i “At 5 o'clock last night the stage lhal) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1903 PENITENTIARY OFFICIALS WHO WERE CAPTURED 1 1 | OFFICERS OF THE FOLSOM PRISON WHO PLAYED CONSPICUOUS ROLES IN THE SENSATIONAL BREAK l FOR LIBERTY MADE BY THIRTEEN CONVICTS AND A MAP INDICATING THE COURSE TAKEN BY THE FUGITIVES WHO MAY SOON BE SLAIN IN BATTLE. Freedom Inspires the . Bloodthirsty Offenders. to 4+ “As 1 passed by the end of the wagon the convicts jumped out and fired at the posse hidden on the sides of the road. Then they jumped in the wagon and at that second the posse shot the horses dead. One of the farm hands who had jumped from the wagon caught up with me and said to be that we should go into the hotel, but I took no notice and I kept on running, as I knew my life was at Big Coal Field Discovered. VANCOUVER, B. C., July 28.—A large area of coal estimated to contain 250,000,000 tons has been located #h the Peace River | country, Some of the seams are said to be nine feet thick. The coal is reported to be of good quality. The scene of the discovery is near Hudson Hope, not far from the entrance to the Peace River pass. —_——————— ‘Wants $25,000 Burial Vault. NEW YORK, July 28.—The will of Mrs, Alice Skae, a California widow, who com- mitted suicide July 6 at a hotel in this city, has been filed for probate. Mrs. Skae directed that the burial vault at ©Oakland, Cal,, in which her hushand and two children are entombed, be taken down by her executor and a4 new one erected at a cost of $25000. She leaves the residue of her estate in trust for her daughter, i who 1s to receive the income for life. Dance .and Song on the Road. stake. Then the sound of firing became fainter and then it stopped after a while. “1 went down the road for about a mile and met Guard F. A. Lochart, who was in a wagon. He took me up and I went on with him to the hotel at Pllot Hiil. Then he went on to the wagon the con- victs had abandoned. I saw Murphy’s body. He was shot through the heart and one side of the top of his head was Baseball Trouble Settled. SALT LAKE, July 28.—The trouble be- tween six players of the Salt Lake team and J. M. Reynolds, president of the club, ‘hiis been amicably settled and the revolting players left for Seattle to-night. President Reynolds says the players will reach Seattle in time to play on Friday. Two games will be played Sunday. Jack Grimm, over whose release the trouble arose, will be retained by the club. He will remain in this city to superintend the remodeling of the present grounds. ————————— VANCOUVER, B. C., July 28.—The Southern Central Pacific Rallway was in- corporated to-day. It will construct a line af rajlway easterly hy way of Kootenay Pass, gouth of the Crow's Nest Pass, ‘to some point on the Old Man River district of Alberta, thence northeasterly through Saskatchewan to a hundred miles north of Fort Churchill. R blown away. ““We left the wagon and body and went back to the hotel and the men of the va- rious posses commenced to come in. It was an exciting night and I shall never forget it. At daylight the posses scat- tered and set out to surround the con- | the recently dismissed superintendent of | the city dellvery service, for the last week | his expense accounts. Hedges has asked | and knocked him down. +* + RETURN, WWOUNDED AND DIS1RAUGHT, TO FOLSOM HonAsar mvors SACEANES ry | | | | | | LAST WEEK'S SALARY OF HEDGES IS HELD | Postoffice Department Sure of Small Remuneration From Ousted Official. WASHINGTON, July 28.—Fourth Assist- ant Postmaster General Bristow has held up the undrawn salary of Charles Hedges, of his service pending the settlement of | for leave of absence for sixteen days, to begin on the day of his removal, but Bris- tow has never contemplated granting the leave. The inspectors have been investigating a number of local matters in this city in | which it is alleged George W. Beavers, the former chief of the division of sala- ries and allowances, was concerned. The Grand Jury which has been consid- ering postal cases has not yet reported, and no specific date for bringing in in- dictments has yet been fixed, although it is fully expected that they will be re- ported some time this week. ————— POLICE OF WHEELING PREVENT A LYNCHING Citizens Attempt to Avenge an In-| | sult to a Respectable | ‘Woman. ‘WHEELING, W. Va., July 28.—But for the timely arrival of policemen John Pos- tecs, a Hungarian steelworker, would have been strung up by an enraged mob | on Wheeling Island to-night. Postecs, | who was drunk, caught in his arms and | embraced a well known and respected woman residing on the island as she was returning home over the bridge. The wo- man’s cries were quickly answered by citizens who rushed from their homes. The man ran, pursued by a crowd which was growing every minute. ‘When the mob drew close to the for- eigner, he turned and drew a dirk and held the mob at bay for a time. A stone was thrown, knocking the knife trom s | hand and another struck him on the head A rope was sent for by the enraged citizens. Vengeance | had been decided upon and a tree picked out when a force of policemen arrived upon the scene and rescued the man from | the mob. He was badly used up and Isl’ in a serious condition. 1 ———e—————— Reno Suspects Acquitted. | RENO, Nev., July 28.—A jury returned | a verdict of not guilty in the W. D. Phil- | lips and Harry Butts grand larceny case | this evening. Butts was arrested last January and charged with going into the | Southern Pacific Rallroad ticket office here and rebbing W. D, Phillips, the tick- et agent. Phillips was arrested as an ac- cessory. The verdict gives universal sat- isfaction. Phillips is well known among railroad ticket men all over the United States. He had been in the employ of the | Southern and Union Pacific for many years. | ————— Not a Massacre of Jews. LONDON, July 28.—Nothing is known here of a report published by a news agency in the United States to the effect that a massacre of Jews has occurred at Ofrand/near Tangier, Morocco. The Morn- ing Leader publidhes a dispatch from Tangler, saying that the Jewish quarter victs. Brown and myself drove into Fol- som prison to report and we are glad to get back.” ommqwmxmwmmm. Russia Cautious as to WASHINGTON, July 28.—Mr. Banson, the Russian Charge d'Affaires here, gave notice to Acting Secretary Loomis to-day that the Russian Government would here- after vize passports for Russia only at the imperial embassy here and at the Russian consular offices at New York, Chicago and San Francisco. This is a two- thirds reduction in the number of offices where such passports could heretofore be vized. No explanation is offered for the reduction, but it is believed that the pur- pose is to secure a more rigid scrutiny of the charcter of would-be travelers in Rus- sia. NPT 1 TSRS 1T WASHINGTON, July 28.—Orders have been given to fit up the triple-screw crulser Min- neapolis, now used as a receiving chip at the League Island Navy Yard, as the flagship of Rear Admiral Wise, commanding the training squadron of the North Atlantic fleet, of Ofran was looted by Arabs on July 17 and a building destroyed, that a girl was abducted, and that in a quarrel among | her abductors six Arabs were killed. There is no doubt that this is the basis of the report of the massacre. —_——— Fined for Carrying Revolver. LEADVILLE, Colo., July 28.—Charles D. Moyer, president of the Western Fed- eration of Miners, was arrested here at | 10:45 o’clock this morning by Sheriff Long, | charged with carrying concealed weapons. Moyer admitted having a 45-caliber revol- ver in his hip pocket and turned it over to the Sheriff. He was then marched to jail and locked up. Later he was given a hearing in a Justice's court and was fined 350 and costs, which he paid. —_—— OLYMPIA, ‘Wash. Court_to-day order returnable Friday requiring the Town Council of Bremerton to show cause why it should not be restrained from interfering with the opening of the sa- | loons of that place. —_———— KANSAS CITY, July 28, —-Rev. H. D. Hilson, cher, shot ‘and killed his wife mJ July 28.—The Supreme a negro prea confectionery store in Kansas City, s. at a late hour to-night. The woman had sued {ers have been known - Trainmen Watch for the Law- breakers. PrE s Southern Pacific Sends Out a Warning. to_The Call AND Jut 28 - hern Pacific Com- pany trainmen have been warned by the division superintendents to care- fully observe ail tramps and to keep a close watch on all trains for men who might be escaped Folsom convicts. The trainmen have been ordered to keep in close touch with police officials throughout the State so long as any of the desperadoes are fres or alive. It was in pursuance of these imstruc- tions that the conductor of an inbound freight train notified the Oakland police | at 2:30 o’clock this morning that a gang of suspicious men were on his train and that he would like to have a squad of po- lice meet the train at the Sixteenth-street station. Captain of Police Petersen de- tailed eight men under Sergeant Green, and at 3:3 o'clock they attacked the train | in force. With drawn pistols the bluecoats de- scended on a freight car where the sus- pects were supposed to be hidden. Out of the darkness they dragged three men, but the trio were not fugitive comvicts, only a lot of perambulating ““hoboes.” During the excitement of the raid Patrol | Wagon Driver Howlett added to realism by accidentally causing the discharge of his loaded revolver. The trigger caught in his overcoat pocket while he was guarding a freight car entrance. The overcoat was set afire and Howlett burned his hands smothering the flaming gar- ment. The bullet passed through How- lett's coat and trousers, but lodged near his feet in a plank without wounding him The three men arrested gave the names of William Roneberz, Willlam Kuhl- meyer and Charles Habel. They were un- armed. Along“the line of the Southern Pacifle Company out of Oakland and through Sacramento to Truckee and the section adfacent to the scene of the conviets’ fiight the trainmen have been heavily | armed to resist a posstble attack from the | tugitive jailbirds. ————— e BREAKING UP GANG OF LAND SWINDLERS Postoffice Inspectors Arrest Fourteen Men for Misuse of the Mails. ST. LOUIS, July 23.—Henry A. Brad- ford was arrested here to-day by Post- office inspectors on the charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, as a result of an investigation of land swindles that have been in progress since last Decem- ber. The Investigation has been pursued in Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Missouri, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Bradford's arrest resulted from come plaints that he was using the mails to sell fraudulent land titles. Bradford's bond was fixed at $2000, but up to a late hour to-night he had failed to give bond. Postoffice Inspector Dice said the inves- tigation had led to the arrest of thirteen other men on similar charges in different parts of the country, and he was of the opinfon that the arrest to-day would prove the collapse of one of the most gi- gantic land swindles in the history of the country. —_— ' CALMLY CONFESSES MURDER OF HIS WIFE Martin Ebelt Clears Mystery Sur- rounding Woman Found Dead in a Sewer. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., July 28.—Mar- tin Ebelt was held to-night to the Grand Jury for the murder of his wife, Augusta, whose body was found In a sewer on Sunday. He confessed freely and without the least tremor or seeming fear. Ebelt said he had been worried by his wife's demands for money and had de- cided to get riu of her. A week before he had noted the break in the sewer pipe. which he calculated would serve him to hide the body. He then prepared the way for the murder by telling his wife he had found a place for her to work. He re- quested her to get ready and said he would take her to the place. On the way, he said, they quarreled, and after choking the woman to death he tied a shoestring around her neck and lowered her body into the sewer, expect~. ing it to be swept down into the Sound. This confession was signed by the pris- oner. —_————— Negro Escapes Indiana Mob. LOGANSPORT, Ind., July 28 —Sheriff Richardson and a posse of about ome hundred citizens of Washington Town- ship, armed with shotguns, revolvers and pitchforks, followed ' two bloodhounds eight miles this afternoon and evening in an effort to find the negro assaflant of Mrs. Joseph Watts. The chase ended at Boone, a small station along the Pan- handle, where was found a revoiver, be- lieved to have belonged to the nogro. It is thought that he boarded a train at this station and escaped. % —_———————— Heat Kills Aged Prospector. PHOENIX, A. T., July 3.—Charles Na- deau, a prospector, 75 years old, has been found dead near Agua Caliente. He left Agua Caliente Springs on the 23d for Phdenix with five burros. Two days later one of the burros returned to Agua Cali- ente and a searching party found Nadeau and two of his burros, which were tied up, dead. It is thought Nadeau became fll or was overcome by the heat. The burros died of thirst ————— PHOENIX. A. T.. July 38.—Frank Col- well was murdered last night at the Buckeva les from Bowie station, . by & on--armed man named who was last seen heading for Jay Gould, Mexico. ——————— NAC ISLAND, Mich,, July 28 —The ainth _annual convention of the Commercial Law League of America was held here to-day W. H. G. Dinkelsoiel of San Francisco way among those Who responded to the address of welcome. —_————— A Cure for Drunkenness. In Norway drunkenness is punished by imprisonment. When a man is incarcer- ated he has a loaf and wine morning and evening. The bread is served in a wood- en bowl full of wine, in which it has been soaking for an hour. The first day the drunkard his allowance willingly enpugh. The sec. ond dav it seems less pleasing, and at the end of the eight or ten days prison- to abstain aito- gether from the food tbn-#mouly pree sented. [Excent in rare fastances. the drunkard is radically cured by this treat. ment.—Exchange