The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1903, Page 14

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1903. 14 ; RN Cas 5.0 MAS. VAN BUREN WANTS DAMAGES Alleges Her Husband's Life Was Lost by* Negligence. et Charges the Mountain Copper Company With the TOLD AGA INCRIMINATING STORIES INST DILLARD Pretty Stenographers From Revenue Collector’s Office and Chinese Who Were Smuggled Over Border Give Testi- Responsibility. Before a fary in the United States Cir- cult Court yesterday the trial of the suit Mrs. Maud Van Buren against the Mountain Copper Company, Limited, was begun. The sul was brought to recover $50,000 dameges alleged to have been sus- t e death of her husband, John | who was killed on March 3, be caving of & stope in which king. The case was tried in | yurt last year and the jury Van Buren $15,000 damages, tes Circuit Court of verdict and ordered | | | { { of appeared for the com- Van Ness for the de- for the plaintiff \ Buren applied nd, contrary to nderground to g at the time ng and having so the company. It at the stope Buren and his ¥ ne complainant was been improperly tim- Buren of Van negligence properly to Buren te nt she had d was the ldren: Maud, death g be continued this morn- o _—————————— WIDOW DEMANDS MONEY ON A FRIEND'S DEATH Suit Against a Company on a Pe- rly Worded Policy of Life Insurance. w cul filed a suit yes- ates Circuit Court Mutual Life As- recover $2500 al- a policy for v A. Hagan, de- Wa 1 die witk ser beneficiary amount of the died within olaint al-\ fused to than ember | nths to spend in | eJs this more so e season is ly made, houlders g tired and hungry, but s & Mecca for the sports- where ssued by Robbery Charge Dismissed. f Daniel Lawlor, charged dismissed Police by ssion streets on along with an- ing a silver watch and n testified yester- sitively to | ough he the City " > robbery. —_———— Arrest Causes Damage Suit. Adyson Blal gar at who while en route from | Jose to is city June 25 last was ar- | Underwood and T. arden City, filed suit st them yesterday. rrest, which subse- a mistake, caused him | Sale of 50 School Dresses. Ages 12, 14 and 16 years, A SPECIAL INDUCE- MENT FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. Made of basket weave cheviot, in shades of gray, tan, green and navy; trimmed with cluny lace and fancy silk braid; well tailored and perfect fitting. 54 > DI o E LR DA ee | ment. | the originals in the archives of the files. | torney Shortridge for the defendant could pr—— 77 Frmma L. S pnnrr. Soonworzh, Y. 5. 7 strvct Mlorney: RNMENT OFFICIAL WHO I8 STRIVING TO CONVICT "LERK OF FORGING RESIDENCE , AND PRETTY STENOGRAPHER WHO TESTIFIED IN CASE. COLORED CERTIFICATES FOR CHI- &— OMEWHERE among the swarm ing millions in far-off China there is a wily Celestial whose presence in the United States Court for the Northern District of Califor- nia is greatly desired. This is Toy Man Sing. erstwhile merchant of Chinatown and alleged accomplice of Willlam H. Dil- lard, the colored ex-clerk in the office of the United States Internal Revenue Col- lector, now standing trial for the forgery of fraudulent Chinese certificates. Toy Man Sing is lost to the grip of the law, but his illicit dealings with Dillard were exposed before the bar of justice yester- day, Three weazened-faced Chinese testified vesterday that they came across the Mexican border on certificates furnished | them by this same Toy Man Sing, who ! had, in turn, procured the magic talis- mans from some “black man” in San Francisco. Revenue Agent Burt Thomp- son told of the raid made upon the quar- ters of the shrewd Chinaman after his hasty departure for the Orient, and of the discovery there of incriminating evidence needed to complete the chain which bound the fugitive Dillard to the whole- sale fraud perpetrated upon the Govern- | i | | i | In incongruous contrast to the jabber- ing and thoroughly frightened Chinese witnesses there were also pretty stenog- raphers and chic young women' clerks from the office of Collector Lynch to add their quota to the mountain of eviden which is being piled up against their for- mer dusky associate. F. B. Bell and A. L. Worthy, attorneys, | first took the stand to say that they had often had dealings with Dillard in his ca- | pacity of clerk of the Chinese certificates. | They said that Dillard allowed them to compare their duplicate certificates with CHINESE REVEAL PLOT. | Sam Yat S8am, who had the stand yes- when he testified to slipping over the border on a fraudulent certificate, was recalled by Attorney Woodworth. He was shown the photograph which ac- | companied the original certificate bearing his name and swore that the photograph on that one was not that of him as it ap- peared on the frandulent duplicate. At- not induce Sam Yat Sam to be uncertain as to hiscown identity, much as he might waver on other questions.- Ye To Yow then took the witness chair. | “How did you yet that-certificate which carried you across the * border?" asked Attorney ‘Woodworth, “It came from a black man in San Francisco. Toy Man Sing got it from the black man and sent it to a white man where 1 was, in El Pase, Mexico. He gave it to me.” “Where did you have these photographs on the certificates taken?"” “In Deming, New Mexico.’ I had them macde and gave them to the white mhn to send to the black man.” The trembling witness then said that he pald $100 into the hands of the white man, whose name he did not remember because American names were not easy ones. He said that the $100 was also for the-far away “black man.” ‘Like his pre- decessor, he failed to see any similarity between the portrait of himself and that appearing on the original paper in the files of the Collector of Revenues. He said that the white agent who acted as i 1 middleman to get him across the border had met him through a letter from Toy Man Sing. ATE WATERMELON IN OFFICE. ‘Woo Yung next told a story-of similar operations of a white man and a black — man, by which he had been smuggled into the country on a fraudulent certificate. George A. Wright, chief deputy clerk in the Internal Revenue Office, then related DISTRIBUTION NOW PROBABLE mony Which Makes Strong Case Agaifist the Accused Executor Henshaw Files - — an Account of His Stewardship. em——— Surprises ('Jogswel!v Heirs by Petitioning for Ap- porticnment. —_— Willlam G. Henshaw, executor of the who has been charged by the -heirs of | Mrs. Cogswell with delaying the distri- | bution of her estate in order that he might be pecuniarily benefited, executed a flank movement in Judge Troutt's court | vesterday that had the effect of placing | [the attorneys for the heirs in a peculiar | | position. Through his attorney, Charles |'S. Wheeler, Henshaw askéd that the pe- | tition for partial distribution be dismissed | because e had placed on file an account {of his stewardship and a petition for | final distribution of the estate. Distribution is what the heirs want, but they hardly expected that it would come | randed as an opponent of their interests. | Attorney John S. Partridge, who, with | Walter D. Mansfield, represents the heirs, refused to dismiss his petition until he | had time to examine Henshaw's account !'and petition. “It comes at this time,” he sald, “like | a thunderciap out of a clear sky and I de- sire time to examine into the documents.” Wheeler, who, up to yesterday, had used his best endeavors to Secure con- { tinuances of the hearing of the helrs’ peti- tion, ez | that Partridge consent to the | of his petition. The latter was obdurate, | though he Inti ed that a dismissal ! would follow shortly. | Henshaw's petition. Mansfleld said | was willing to consent to a dismissal, but Partridge remained firm. He did, how- heard to-day and Judge Troutt set it for |2 o'clock, when, in all probabflity, pro- to contain a joker, the Partridge petition will -be dismissed. ‘Wheeler appeared failure of his move. asked that the hearing of both petitions go over until August 18, he said: disgusted with the | view of the fact defects in the pre ccdings that 1 desire 1 ng for a continuance. © been impusne: and nder the im- s come into court and a petition for final well estate within two pasm of the last and I submit to the court prtation that b terests of petitl with his final ac | distribution of the | weeks after the | against the estate | that he has shown t unsel for the er side conveys the im- ot bec the | duty to fite it, and | ings instituted by within a_very re | a1l the claims | pared to show th him are foundationless. —_———— BERLIN, Aug. 0.—~Slegfreld Wagner has fin- iched his new opera, entitled *“Kobold™ (Goh- lin). The premiere will be given at Lelpsic next season, L e o i e e e Y ) of Toy at 625 Dupont street, but found us se of the pro heirs. There Thomas said that he found dupli- his intimate knowledge of Dillard's ac- | tions while clerk in the office. that Dillard took sole charge of the busi- ness of issuing duplicate certificates. Dii- lard .also had the key to the postoffice box and opened all the ordinary business mail before” Collector Lynch came to the office. Wright said that when Lynch received the note from the District Attorney of El | Paso, Texas, inquiring for file 68701, con- taining the originals of‘ certificates thought to be fraudulent, he searched in the file room, and after a three days’ in- termittent effort discovered the book on a lower shelf, hidden behind a box of envelopes, so as to be effectually con- cealed from any casual scrutiny. Upon cross-examination Attorney Short- ridze, in attempting to prove that many people were in the habit of frequenting | the file room, made Wright admit that, | together with the young women in the of. fice, he had sometimes discussed a., lus- clous . watermelon below theg volumes of | Chinese certificates, and that on one oc- casion he had even gone in thgre with Dillard to take a look at a flat bottle. Charles Mehan, head of the Chinese Bureau in this city, then related how he had first discovered the existence of the fraudulent certificates at Deming, N. M. He said that he had doubted the authen- ticity of the reply purporting to have certificates and had put the alleged for- gery into the hands of the local District Attorney at Deming. MEHAN IS FLUSTERED. At ‘the hands of Shortridge Mehan fared badly. The attorney for the pris- oner at the bar tried to make Mehan | acknowledge that he doubted the genuine character of any of Lynch's signatures and had reduced the Chinese inspector to almost temporary prostration before Judge de Haven interfered. Attorney - Woodworth then called upon the following members of the clerical staff in the revenue offices to state that Dillard had s=ole charge of the issuing of duplicate certificates: Charles F. Bright- enstein, Alfred Bettman, Leon ,Dennery, Martin Lichtensteiner, De Witt C. Dixon, Willlam Gilchrist, Gilroy, F. Mott, C. G. Perkins, J. G. Tyrrell, R.'E. Martin, Miss May Burke, Miss Carrie A. Jessup, Miss E. Everhart, A. Lewis, Charles W. New- house, John M. Platt, Frank J. Snow, L. :‘J‘ King, C. T. Frost and Frank H. Dris- 1. s Miss Emma D. Mounet, stenographer in Lynch's office, and Miss Emma Sloss, a deputy collector, were quizzed at some length. Shortridge accused Miss Sloss of copylng affidavits and certificates for Dillaj and other members of the office staff, but she vigorously denied having ever done so. Miss Sloss ldentified the letter press copy of a letter dictated to-her by Dillard. THOMAS TELLS STORY. Burt Thomas, special revenue officer, then gave direct testimony. He sald that in searching through the fileroom he found the fourteen fraudulent duplicate certificates mentioned in the indictment against Dillard in a package by them- selves among some bona fide documents. The originals of.the duplicates were not in existence go far as the records of the office indicated. He also told of finding a stubbook in Dillard’s desk with the traud- ulent duplicate certificate for one Ho uong still unattached and made out In Dillard’s handwriting. About May 24 the Chinese go-bsiween, Toy Man Sing, called at Thomas' office and at Lynch's office half a dozen times in an endeavor to get this incriminating evidence. When Dillard was discovered, Thomas says that he went to the rooms ome from Collector Lynch in response to | a demand for file No. 68701 of the original | He said | {estate of the late Caroline E. Cogswell, | n request of Henshaw, whom they have | fly shifted his position and op- | posed the granting of time and spggested | ismissal | s | however, and refused Wheeler's request, | [ said, that the matter go over until Au-| He preferred, he | gust 18, the time set for the hearing of ! he | ever, consent that,the matter should be | l\'idlng the Henshaw petition is not found | When Partridge | I do not feel dfsposed to consent to that, in | there are jurisdictional | claim | at he has not jbeen dila- | fon that he h en foroed to do =0 by | their proceedings. I desire to say such is not | the case. unt is filed because it 1 He {8 in court | nable time after settling | nst the estate, and is pre- | t the charges made against | the wary Chinese had departed for China. | cate photographs of those appearing on fraudulent certificates. “I had been previously struck by the fact,” sald Thomas, “that Dillard was | tantly In the company of Toy Man | before the disappearance of both of Toy was often in Dillard's office them and the prisofder was several times seen by me at Toy's place of business. When appeared there were 200 certifi- | from the stubs The cross-examination of Thomas will take place to-day OINTMENT Puest of Emollients and Greatest of Skin Cures. The Most Wonderful Curative of Al Time For Torturing, Disfiguring Skin Humours And Purest and Swastest of Tollt Emolens. 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When only six years old he was dispatch- ed on a pleasure trip down the Missis- sippl River to the Mexican gulf and since | then has made another journey from Chi- cago south as far as Alabama, this time accompanied by his little sister. His only credentials are his passes, provided him by the various railroads, and a few let- | ters which his father has given his son addressed to rallroads agents in the vari- ous towns and cities which are included in the itinerary of the traveler. Young Bell is a pupil of the Chicago schools and is allowed to travel during the vacation months. He started west- ward on his present trip on July 22 and went direct to Los Angeles, where he was afforded every facility within the power of the railroad officials there to visit the different points of interest, and finally he proceeded on his journey to this city, where he contemplated with pleasure a chance to visit the Cliff House and hear Dennett immediately upen his arrival here yesterday pald his respects to G. W. Hallock, city passenger agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, who is an old friend of the boy’'s father and who at once invited the little fellow to be his guest during his stay In San Francisco. Discussing his trip yesterday with a Call reporter, Den- nett said in a rather blase manner: “Traveling ain’t so hard for a bov if he is used to it, and this trip didn’t worry me a bit until I got into California, and then the fleas began to bite me. Whew! But don’t they chew you? “I wanted to go to Honolulu, but papa wouldn’t listen to the proposition. - He also kicked last year when I asked him to send me over to Europe, but I'll get there before many years. California is a great place for a boy to come to, for there is lots to see here and a fellow can get along nicely without much trouble.” —_————— AMERICAN PESO FAILS o TO PLEASEN FILIPINOS Prejudice Exists Among the Natives Against the Use of the New Coins. MANILA, Aug. 6.—The effort of the United States Government to introduce its new currency Into the . Philippine Is.ands has not met with the success that was expected. Although a large quantity of the coins minted at S8an Francisco have reached the islands, there exists consid-+ erable prejudice against their use, espe- clally in the provinces. The baunkers. of manila, having become convinced of the necessity of action in the matter, held a conference to-day with Governor Taft, and after a full discussion promisea to render the Government all the aid in their power to secure the acceptance of @he American peso as the standard of value and the general use of the new colns. ' i A. Abrahamson of the Hotel Richelieu had a badly inflamed foot which he cured in a short time with Koenigstein's Red Salve. - —_——————— Save Old Lady From Flames. A coal oll lamp exploded on Wednesday night in the bedroom of Mrs. Bridget Ahern, 1009 Bryant street, and set fire to"| the window shades. The flames were ob- served by Policeman Butler, who called Policeman William Hyland to his assist- ance, and with the aid of buckets they quickly extinguished the blaze. Mrs. Ahern is more than 80 years of age and bedridden, and if it had not been for the opportune arrival of the policemen she might have been burned to death. She suffered no ill effects from the shock. —_— e J Secret of ‘three mnoted society beauty. Read the Wasp. — ——e———— Bitten by a Comrade. Roscoe Kinsey and Fred Bruuson, pri- vates in the Twenty-seventh Company, Coast Artillery, had a fight in a saloon on Pacific street early yesterday morning and Brunson used his teeth on Kinsey's ear and finger. Kinsey called at the Cen- tral police station and was taken to the Harbor Hospital, where his wounded ear and finger were dressed. \ ————————— Bank Stock paper, the best on earth. Mysell- Rollins, 22 Clay st, sell It. It saves the sight.* women's. STOREKEEPERS FILE PROTEST Bitterly Complain of Delay in Repaving Third Street. A number of storekeepers on Third street appeared before the Supervisors’ Street Committee yesterday to protest against granting the Barber Asphalt Company an extension of ninety da; within which to complete its contract tc widen and repave the thoroughfare named # frun: Mission to Berry streets. The store- keepers bitterly complained that the wretched condition of the street had caused business to suffer to the extent of 50 per cent. Gratz K. Brown of the paving company stated that it was ready to proceed with the work if it could get work room. Brown said the railroad company was be- hindhand owing to the difficulty encoun- tered at the crossings. General Manager Chapman. who was. communicated with by telephone, sald that the United Rail- roads did not desire an extension of time. President Casey of the Board of Public Works said the United Railroads had en- tered Into a verbal agreement to turn the cars from Third street at Mission to Fourth street and thus permit the work to proceed without hindrance. to the agreement, and that the only rem- edy was to compel the company to run its cars down Fourth street. The committee summoned Manager Chapman and Super- Irtendent of Construction Lynch_to ap- pear before it this morning to see ¥f the arrangements suggested could not be car- ried out so the work may proceed. The committee reported in favor of a resolution requesting the Board of Pub- lic Works to provide a sufficient sum out of its county road fund to repair Buena | Vista avenue, one-half of the expense to be paid by property-owners. The committee reported in favor of ac- cepting New Montgomery street. E. A. Selfridge protested without avail on the ground that a portion of the street is pri- vate property. The committee held that the city pas a title by user and since 1885 has actually owned the street, despite the fact that the Selfridges have paid taxes thereon. The Sanitary Reduction Works was granted permission to build a spur track on Rhode Island street. The committee rgported in favor of the map. showing the boundaries of the djs- trict affected and to be assessed ir changes of grades on Polk and Chestnut streets; on certain streets on Parnassus Heights; of ordering the construction of a sewer in Pine street, between Mason and Taylor; of referring to the City gineer thé complaint of the. University Mound and Bay View Improvement Club that the Board of Public Works has not removed obstructions in the districts named. The committee referred to the City En- | gineer the proposed ordinance providing | for a grant to the Western Pacific Rail- way Company for a right of way for a stéam road along certain streets, he to report upon the route selected by the peti- tloner. e ~ SETS DATE FOR CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION The Civil Service Commission will hold an examination for truckmen in the Fire Department on September 5, 1%3. The scope of the examination will be: Physi cal quallfications, 50; athletic test, 20; gen- eral knowledge of dutles, 20; writing of report, 10: total, 100 Applicants must be 5 feet 9 inches in | stripped. | height and weigh 155 pounds The medical examinations will be held August 27, 28 and 29; the athletic exami- nation August 31, September 1 and 2. The athletic test will be as follows: Run (about 83 yards)—13 seconds, 20 credits; 14 secands, 10 credits; 15 seconds, 5 ered- its, Ladder work—Hand over hand on ladder, up and down five rungs, 4 credits to a rung. Carrying dummy weighing 125 pounds up and down an inclined ladder; maximum credit 20. “Vaulting the horse (4 feet 2 Inches)—Maximum credit 20; ten credits off for touching any part of the body, hands- excepted. Climbing perch pole—Maximum credit 20 for 10 feet clear; under 10 feet, 2 credits to a foot. BT i May Introduce Water Supply. The Spring Valley Water Company no- tified the Supervisors’ Water Committee yesterday that the request of property holders in the district bounded by Bight- eenth and Twentleth avenues and N and O streets for the introduction of a water supply will be complied with only when the district i§ graded and macadamized and the number of houses is sufficient to warrant the expense, when a subsidiary reservoir may be constructed. Referring to the complaint of lack of pressure on Pacific street, the company says it i1s laying a twenty-four-inch main into the Western Addition, designed to im. prove the fire and domestic pressure that region. Casey | added that the company had not lved up | | GRAUMAN SELLS THEATER STOCK No Longer Manager of House That Bears' His Name. Dennis J. Grauman {s no longer connect- ed with the Pacific Coast Vaudeville Com- pany. He has resigned as, manager of circuit and also as manager of the theater Market streets that bears sold out his stock to the other members of the company last Saturda and they allege that he has not given sat Isfaction either’as manager of the circuit ar of Grauman Theater for some time. Although Grauman has sold out his stock in the Pacific_Coast Vaudeville Company, he still retains an interest in the Unique Theater, on Market street, of which Mrs. Straus, former owner of the Bay State market, owns the majority of the stock. The Pacific Coast Vaudeville Company was organized In the month of April of this year. At the present time, besides owning the Grauman Theater in this city, it also conducts amusement houses in Oakland, Portland, Or., and Seattle. In dis Grauman’s retirement from the vaudeville company one of the stockholders sald: “Grauman retired as manager of the Pacific Coast Vaudeville Company on Sat- urday, He also sold out his stock at the same’time. 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