The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1903, Page 4

REDENGE, CRIMINAL S PURPOSE Angry Lawbreaker Calls at Resi- dences. Sacramento People Disturbed by Reporis. tch to The Call 2. —Ever since Gordon known as “Red another escape whose y was not disclosed, had left ators and were head- £ for Sacramento, much alarm has been ry people in this vicinity, ow and they h pearance of ome or both of the fugitives the Police Depart- me.t at & sur this afternoon that a etrange man answering the description of G near Perkjns Sta- of this city, secured ly disappeared. a sensation in reached rdon % appeared uon, & few miles east food and *hen mysteri used quit the neighbor ndent to-nigh. visited appearance of the striffge 1 that the subject [fad d the people of the locjfity. nducts a blacksmith carefully e intended it became alarmed n hunted look and ther from his shop. MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. n Mueller responded the strange wn on the steps as If to Mueller turned his b nd the man, unnoticed, fle wed his footsteps and top of oll he saw g away in the dis- lose to the Ameri i Mueller thinks the near the river. His of Gordon » men called at the mes and demand- d also asked the rough app 1 their strange Imes and she Sacr: rey Holmes w T she made ASKED FOR THE TIME. was at terday when I was in f f our place. This where w 3 erville swi as s switch here for that pe T were coming th tow the railroad track 1w xious et some news o my hus ™ with the p: Wh - to me they de- mea ed k and wanted to know The d me to go quick w 1 gave them water ¥ pe: and ge men wore a guard's coat ki coat. They : there was clothing. rder their they walked it s hidden. It guns were 1 the butts oats.” i convicts and she photographs of It have comc d joined Gordon of Folsom. The e keeping a count of his for Gordon whe Folsom = % SArmed Men sen forty-five Are Searching the Forests ——— Continued From Page 1, Column 4. Both sides opened fire, but if any effective shots were made no repert of it has been received here. The con- victs avoided a decisive encounter and are supposed to have made a circuit and are now thcught to be working back in the general lirection of Coloma. Brainard F. Smith, clerk at the prison, has notified all points in the vicinity of the scene of this morning’s encounter which can be reached by telephone of the presence of the convicts. s Jheriff :fays Convicts Are Close to Cool UBURN, July 29.—-Sheriff Bosquit of Placerville re- ports that three of the convicts were seen at 5 o'clock this even- couvered the convicts. n ing on the ridge south of Cool, | n out that Con- | o been watching for the ap- | is | srder Superior Judge Hart, | vears in l ; | STATE TROOPS FIND TRAIL OF CRIMINALS |Guardsmen Pursue the Convict Gang ? With Difficulty in the Woods. July 20.—Captain Swissler, the field in command of th Placerville Natioral Guard | company, arrived here t 4 o'clock this afternoon. He sai “We have not seen any of the convicts, | though the scouts have discovered traces of them they are making their way through the country. The country is so rough and hard that they make scarcely any trail except where th e a stop- ping place. Our scouts have been in all directions over the country in this neigh- borhood and from the signs they bave | discovered we have hope of locating the We are about escapes. to change our plans and will make another round up of the country. “It is evident that the convicts kept together for a time but the tracks now dicate that they have split up into at least three bands, though they may come together later on. These maneuvers on their part may be for the purpose of throwing us off our guard and keep us from guessing their real purpose. But though we have not seen them, we feel confident that the scouts have discover- ed enough to make sure of the general direction in which the ccnvicts are try- ing to travel, which seems to be toward Georgetown. CONVICTS IN PARTIES. “As near as we can make out the men are about seven miles from this point, or at least the main body of them are in the district thus indicated. There are still eleven of the convicts In these moun- tains somewhere. I don’t know that any have entirely deserted the others, though that may be as we are not sure about | anything except the general direction in | which they appear to be pointing. We think that there are probably two parties making toward Auburn. He also reports thlt the Placerville | militia are on hot trail of the other eight at Greenwood Creek. Forest Hill’s : People Desire State Troops OREST HILL, July 29.—A | report has reached here that| five of the escaped convicts, heav- ily armed, were seen north of Cool, heading in the direction of Forest Hill. Armed deputies are watching the river and hills south of here to-night. The excitement is intense and many think the mili- tia should be sent in this direction. —_——— LARAMIE, Wyo., July 20.—Dr. Wilbur Clinton Knight, professor of geology and min- ing engineering in the University of Wyoming and curator of the State Museum, died last night of peritonitis. He was born at Rochelle, 1il., December 13, 1858, and was graduated from the University of Nebraska: of four and one party of three, but whether they are entirely independent of each other or whether they have an un- derstanding as to their general move- ments we can only guess. “If there have been any shots ex- changed with the convicts since the fight at Pilot Hill we do not know it and have not seen anybody who does know of any such thing. Our men have been in all the places where the convicts might be sup- posed to visit, but they have steered clear of such places. The houses in this coun- try are few and far between and it would be thought that they would make for a hoyge to get something to eat or drink, buf not one of them has appeared at any farmhouse in this neighborhood. It seems to me that they can’t keep out much longer, for our information is that they have not much of a supply of grub. ROUGHNESS OF COUNTRY. “If they once show themselves our fel- 1o will soon dig them out of the brush. This is an immense country to hunt over and it is rough beyond description. It is covered with chaparral, in which a man may hide so effectually that he might be a few feet away and a searcher not see him. - “The convicts are traveling pretty fast, considering the conditions, as they can- not move an inch except in the daytime, owing to the chaparral. The difficulties are so great that unless some of them know a good deal about the country here they are in danger of getting lost. In that event some of them might make a run for the open trails and then our boys would quickly be on them. All that my men are complaining about is that they have had no chance to use their ammuni- tion. “Sheriff Reese of Sacramento is here and will go out again soon. Sheriff Bos- quit of El Dorado County is in the coun- try near Cool. There is little prospect of getting any of the convicts to-night, as they will not dare to move in the dark.” VENEZUELA INVITES THE WRATH OF SPAIN Madrid’s Consul at La Guayra Is Insulted and Deprived of Exequatur. PORT OF SPAIN, Island of Trinidad, July 29.—The Spanish Consul at La Guay- ra, Venezuela, has been deprived of his exequatur, according to passengers who have just arrived from La Guayra.” The action is the result of friction between the Consul and the local authorities over the Spanish claims in his district aganst Venezuela. The passengers say that the Spanish Consul requested the authorities at La Guayra to give him permission to attend the meetings of the Claims Commission. It is alleged that the Prefect of the Com- mission replied in a letter In which he spoke of the Consul as “the son of pil- lagers” and subsequently distributed printed copies of the letter in the streets of La Guayra. The Federal authorities are then said to have withdrawn the Con- sul's exequatur without notifying the Spanish Minister. o kg Chief Arthur’s Successor Dies. . CLEVELAND, July 30—A special from Meadville, Pa., says that A. B. Youngson, who succeeds to the chieftainship of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, died at 2:40 o'clock this morning. S, Sy BUTTE, Mont.. July 20.—Attorney D. W. Cotter of the law firm of Cotter & McHatton, leading counsel for the Hq Interests, died of paralysis to- 'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, T CONDICT “REDSHIRT” GORDON IS RSDAY, JULY 30, NEAR SACRAMENTO EY e A S FOLSOM OFFICIALS W HO WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE CONVICTS. Chico Troops in Readiness ACRAMENTO, July 20.—The Gov- Jernor‘! office has been notified that Sheriff Mansfield of San Mateo Coun- ty and a deputy have arrived at Auburn, Placer County, and that they might join in the pursuit of the escaped convicts. Colonel Seymour has received a tele- gram from Captain Bond, ©ommanding Company A at Chico, stating that the en- tire company could be assembled at very short notice should its services be re- quired in connection with the Folsom prison preak. Folsom Dictim Buried From His Daughter’s Home CRAMENTO, July 20.—William L. JACMQH. the guard who was killed at Folsom prison last Monday, was buried in this city to-day from the resi- dence of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Byers. A.large number of friends of the deceased were in attendance. The guards of Fol- som prison sent two beautiful floral pleces. Convict Davis Well Known at the Navy Yard ALLEJO, July 20.—Edward Davis, Uone of the fugitives from Folsom, was employed at Mare Island in 1%L While under the influence of liquor he robbed a man on a street in San Francis- co and was arrested by the police of that city. He was sentenced to thirty-three vears in Folsom. Davis is a Spanish- American war veteran, which fact partly accounts for his employment at the navy vard. z e e e R e Y EVENLY MATCHED HOUNDS IN COURSING STAKE Sixty-Four Fliers Are Entered for This Week’s Competition at Union Park. Sixty-four greyhounds of class were en- tered last night for the meeting to be held at Union Coursing Park on Sunday. The draw resulted as follows: Presidio Boy vs. Vina: Flying Pasha vs. Full Moon; Real Article vs. Cook's Water: Doreen vs.' America; Concord Boy vs. Man- hattan King; Ruby Sankey vs. Balendine; Rub- ber Ankles vs. Melrose; Fancy Free vs. Sem- pronius; Rector vs. Wedgewood; Idaho Boy vs. Otto; Tyrone Prince vs, Eagle; Reckless Acro- bat vs. Frisky Barbara; Pepper Hill vs. Viking; Los Angeles vs. Belfast; Braw's Hill vs, Fair Oaks; Cremo vs, Modest Beauty; Clarice vs. Sylvan; ng;n! Artfst vs. Silver Heels; False Alarm vs. Ben Porter; Queen’s Motto v: m. bit; Roman Athlete 'vs. Jack Shoct; Mickey Firm Fellow: Plowman vs. Ragged Cascade vs. Lord Brazen; Ecstiake vs. Reno; My Bonnle King vs. Red Rocl Tralee vs. Tillle R; Krishna Fla Boy vs. Barge; Flying Fox vs. Liberator Ren- egade Apache vs, Bonnie Pasha; Game Boy vs. Master Rocket. —_—— Racer Oom Paul Is Dead. NEW YORK, July 29.—It was announced at the Jamaica track to-day that Oom Paul, which ran such a miserable on Monady, died to-day of acute gastritis. BERLIN, July 20.—A prmu’l is on foot to amalgamate the Natlonal Sotlalist party and the Radical Union and it is said that a Na- tional Socialist Congress, which will meet at Goettinger August 20 and 30 will undoubtedly agree to the amalgamation S = PR SR R News Arrives in Fragments at the Prison Special Dispatch to The Call JIOLSOM, July 29.—This has been a Fday of keen expectation and anxiety at the prison. From early morning hundreds of rumors filled the air. Clerk Smith of the penitentiary has been kept busy all day answering and sending tele- phone messages to El Dorado County. Shortly aftem daybreak information reached here that the convicts had been surrounded at a point near Greenwood. Then messages were received from Placer- ville that the convicts had been corraled in a gully some miles from Pilot Hill, but this was proven to be false. It is the opinion here that the convicts have hidden in the dense brush and will wait for the darkness of night to try and get through the guarded lines. It is evi- dent that the murderous gang has split up Into a few parties and will try and get away toward Lake Tahoe. The only hope at present is that they will be discovered at any minute when compelled to get out of hiding or seek water and food. It ig known that they have but little ammunition with them and that they were almost played out when they set some of the guards free last Monday evening. Escape for the convict band is declared to be impossible by men who know the vicinity of the ground-in El Dorado County in which the posses are now working. . L B e e e ] CHAMPION CORBETT ENOCKS OUT O'NEILL Philadelphia Lad Receives Punch on the Jaw in the Fifth Round. PHILADELPHIA, July 29.—Champion Young Corbett knocked out Jack O'Neill of this city in the fifth round to-night at the National Athletic Club. The first three and a half rounds were tame, O'Neill avoiding the champion's rushes. In the fourth round O'Neill hit Corbett three glancing bléws on the jaw and was about to deliver a fourth onme when Corbett drgpped to his knees to avoid it. This gave the local man confidence in the fifth round, which proved fatal to him. He met Corbett's rushes and in an un- guarded moment recelved a terrific right hand punch on tke jaw which sent him to the floor and he was counted out. ————— Conditions Better for Grain Crop. TACOMA, Wash., July 29.—A letter from State Grain Commissioner A. R. Smith re- ports a great change for the better in the grain situation in the Palouse country. The Commissigner says the hot wave which has beert dyying up the wheat and inflicting great damage came to an end | on the 26th, and that subsequent weather conditions were satisfactory, allowing the withering crops to entirely recover, The Commissioner is informed by farmers that the regular thrashing will commence in two weeks, and that a crop of 2 per cent of the returns of last year is expect- led. The grain, however, is of excellont quality. —_——— ‘War Improbable, Says Kcrupatkin. LONDON, July 30.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Maj] reports that General Korupatkin, the Russian Minister of War, who has just Teturned from the Port Arthur conference, is great- ly pleased with the resuits of his tour and communicated to the Czar that, al. though a fairly strong party in Japan wanted war with Russia, the majority of the people seemed against it; that the Mikado was well disposed’ toward Russia. The correspondent says that General Korupatkin considers that the situation has been cleared for a long time and that ‘war is very improbable \QUTBREAK THE PLAN OF A FEW Conspiracy Is Said to Have Been Confined. Blood Is Discovered in the Cell of a Convict. Special Dispatch to The Call ACRAMENTO, July 23.—Distric Attorney A. M. Seymour returned from the Folsom State Prison late this evening, having been engagea in an investigation of the outbreak Statements of several eye-witaesses, guards and trusties were taken for the purpose of determining whether some of the prisoners who did not escape had been engaged in the plot to secure free- dom. The District Attorney examined a num; ber of convicts, and while no information was officially given out by him or by Warden Wilkinson, it is poSitively learned to-night that these two officials are s fied that there was no wide-reaching plot for one hundred or more convicts to be liberated by the plan carried out last It was learned that the colored . Seavis, only jumped into the ranks of the fighting eonvicis when he hat they had Warden Wilkinson and Is in their power. It appears that W. A. Chalmers, the outside gatekeeper, -was attacked by two prisoners and received a severe cut on his right hand. “Andy” Myers has been identified by some as one of the convicts who assaulted Chalmers, It was stated by some of the eye-wit- nesses that Willlam A. Leverone; one of the convicts, who is doing forty-five years for robbery, was engaged in assisting Myers in his attack on Chalmers. Both Myers and Leverone returned to the main prison through the gate immediately after the assault upen the officers and guards. This was rather puzzling to the officers, for they could not understand why they did not carry out their design of escaping. It appears, however, that while they were engaged in their attack some thots were fired and it Is probable that Myers and Leverone heard these shots, imazined that the guards had opened fire and as a matter of safety they rushed into .lae prison. It was soon too late for them to join their confederates, who were crossing the prison grounds on their way to freedom. Myers and Leverone were questioned by District Attorney Seymour and Captain of the Guard Murphy as to their ‘con- nection with the conspiracy to escape, but they denied they. participated in it and stoutly maintained they had no knowl- edge of it. They also claimed they did not assault Chalmers and had merely re- turned to the prison through the gate to avold getting into the difficulty. Guard Carey subsequently investigated the cell which Leverone occupied and dis- covered a shirt of Leverone’s from which several pieces had been cut on which there were blood spats. These pieces had been thrown into the waste can. Blood was also discovered on the pack of the shirt, showing plainly he had’participated in the assault. Leverone was called into the office to explain this circumstance, but as soon as he was questioned about it "he said: “Do you suppose I am going to =t here and answer all the questions you are going to put to me?” “Why, yes,” said District Attorney Sey- mour. He replied that he would not de it then, but at what he designated as the proper time he would tell what he knew. “If you are going to try me for any- thing I will do it then, but will say no more now. I am done.” District Attorney Seymour and the prison officials had one of the cellmates of Harry Eldridge, one . of the escapes, before them yesterday afternoon. They decline to give the name of this conv From him they learned that he had told a trusty that something was wrong h the men and that he had bettsr warn the lieutenant of the day watch. The trusty told this convict to report the matter to Guard Cochrane, but he was unable to do S0 for the reason that ildridge and Woods kept at his side afterward. EI- dridge and Woods were among the first to get out of the line and make the at- tack on the office of Captain of the Guard Murphy. Eldridge’s .cellmate told the officers at the examination that last Sunday night Eldridge questioned him about the coun- try in which the escapes have sought ref- uge. This occurred after the prisone: had all been locked in their cells for the night. Eldridge then showed his fellow convict the rifle balls which he had and said he was to have received more of them, but the person who was to have brought them got ‘“cold feet.” Eldridge told his cellmate that he was going to “get out,” and asked him to join with him. He told Eldridge he would have nothing to do with any jail break an Eldridge was foolish to attempt dridge then pulled a knife from under h shirt and threatened to kill his fellow prisoner if he ever sald a word to any free man about what he had told him. The next morning Eldridge watched his cellmate closely, but the latter managed to hastily impart a word of g to a trusty, advising him to tenant Kipp of the threatening anger, but the y di ay any attention to the trusty did mot pay any attention o the warning, telling the pri * Y Cochrane. The prisoner sald 1tnum-mf‘; saw him talking to a free man he wou kill him. Fldridge and Woods came up to the former's cellmate and t:e had (n:) further chance to talk to the "‘::f:' They both asked what he had said and he replied that he had been talking about going to work on the rock crusher. They hem until the men formed in et i b t'to work, when the assault og‘:sggbn {s directed to a convict named Smalding as one wWho assisted in perfect- r the escape. The of- lans fo :‘5 e L quite sure he placed the dyna- conspirators could get it rTnx::: l’sotr!:edyndmlle with which it was intended to blow up the armory pest if the guards made a figsht. The Investiga- tion on this line has not been concluded Juan Martinez, a convict, is given much credit by the prison officials for the part he took in assisting the officers. When the attack on Guard Chalmers occurred Martinez was standing near the capt office. He rushed to the guard's ass ance and engaged In a struggle with of the convicts who was assaulting ¢ hal- mers. One of the attacking convicts struck ¢ Martinez with his knife, but the latte dodged the blow and the knife :wrmv Mar- struck the cement floor and broke. tinez then grabbed the bell rope and gave the alarm from that quarter. Dr. Plant, the prison physician, says Martinez fought like a demon. Martinez is totally plind in one eye and the vision of the other is defective. He lost his eye through septic poisoning while nursing one of the convicts. It is very likely hig loyalty to the prison authorities will be rewarded with a pardon or a parole.