The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1903, Page 3

| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1903, 3 TRADE 19 STILL | RATHER UNEVEN Small Buying of Pig? Iron Becomes More Marged. Any Tendency to Overexten- sion Is Conspicuously Absent. - S5 NEW YORK, Aug 1l slightly un- ckwardness of crops reports from the mone- | 23 —Bradstreet's to- | as t ! 1 favorably sit- es well with a year osition to hold congestion re- The feeling is grounding prices and small marked, but still noted on has many ak elem g t business is doing is acter and in fact = 4 rextension s con- is firmer, in a | exports for the ¢ week year United States umber 142, against like wek of 1902, In bring some brightened by tened indu > prepare X all the nece e the crops are making side from some cotton de- AIRSHIP HOUSEBOAT ADRIFT IN A STORM uffeted by a Potomac Gale and Precious Cargo Is Badly Shaken Up. R, Va., Aug at DEWAT 28 —Professor had the he aerc E anot gal experts rome h, 1se h traveled ra where bottom. at gs and A were ken up t tponed for r ready to fl iffened experi- JUDGE DAVID L. MURDOCK | ~IS DEAD AT KANSAS CITY Former San Diego Jurist Passes Away at the Home of His Sister, | ANSKS CITY Aug —David | P 2 1 here s two brot SAN DIEGO ~Judge D. reported is from in 1887 ¥ with legal He was a member of the ollier & Murdock, Collier, ollier & Piilsbury. ow of prominence and NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A CLEANLY AGE. Twentieth Century Ideas Incline To- | ward Sanitation and Preventives. ‘ Nowadays scientists believe that in ess lies the secret of prevention | iseases. | prevent a disease, remove the cause, s unclean habits breed many disea 5 te will breed dandrufr Im: s brushes, combs, etc., | druff, and,’ in time, will aldness. | tion, nothing more nor . | de kills the dandruff germ, r to grow luxuriantly. Herpi. | ely free from grease or other | noes. ing druggists. Send 10c in to The Herpicide Co., De- | There are some pure mus- tards now; Schilling’s Best was the first. But pure is not iine; Schilling’s Best is the only fine, or at least the finest; not colored; there’s prettier mustard to iook at==that isn't what mustard is for. Your grocer’s; moneyback. FORGED PRESCRIPTION FOR DEADLY POISON ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MRS. MARTIN L. BOWERS AND PRESENTED BY HER SISTER EVIDENCE AGAINST THE WIDOW C. PETERSON, the drug clerk: “I remember distinctly » that the woman whom I now know to be Mrs. Sutton visited the store a trifle more than a week ago and pre- sented a prescription for an ounce of arsenic with Dr. Mc- Laughlin’s name attached. I am absolutely certain that Mrs. Sutton was the woman who purchased the poison.” R. McLAUGHLIN: “I never prescribed any arsenic for Mr. Bowers, and have not written any such’ prescription at any time as that filled by Peterson. My name was forged to the paper, by whom I do not know.” H ANDWRITING EXPERT KYTKA: “Dr. McLaugh- lin's signature on that prescription is a plain forgery. I have compared the handwriting on the prescription with that of Mrs. Bowers and am convinced that she did the work.” T brug Clerk Peterson Says Arsenic Was Purchased by Mrs. Z C. Sutton. RUG CLERK J. C. PETERSON, according to the evidence discovered by the police authorities, sold to Mrs. Z. C. Sutton the arsenic which brought death to Martin L. Bowers. The polson was secured on a prescription to which the name of Dr. McLaughlin was forged. The person who wrote the prescription is declared to be Mrs. Martin Bowers, who is suspected of murdering the bridge builder. The motive for thesupposed crime is thought to be the desire of Mrs. Bowers to run away with Patrick O'Leary. The chain of evidence against the suspected woman is growing stronger every hour. It is expected that she or her sister will brealk down at almost any moment and make a complete confession. Shortly after midnight of Thursday the prescription calling for an ounce of arsenic was discovered in the drug store of J. Askenasy at the corner of Fifth streets. Yesterday morning J. C. Peterson, who sold the poison, identified Mrs. Sutton as the purchaser and she was immediately taken custody by the police. Last night detectives found Dr. McLauzhlin at aluma, where he went Wednesday for a short vacation, and he pronounced e signature on the prescription a rank forgery. Handwriting Expert Kytka ed, after a microscopical examination of the chirography of Mis. Martin Bowers, that she had signed the physician’s name to the paper which called for the arsi Mrs. Bowers and Mrs. day, but denied and positively som Sutton were given two rigorous “sweatings” yester- ever having seen the arsenic in question. Attorney Frank Drury has been retained by the two imprisoned women as counsel and they are preparing to m: a determined battle against prosecution by the officers of the law. Patrick O'Leary still maintains that he is innocent of all wrong- doing. Mrs. Bowers ated to the police Thursday night lhql she had patronized on the Owl drug store and the one at the corner of Fifth and Folsom streets. Detective Ryan w at once to the last named establishment and asked if any prescriptions cal for ic had been filled there recently. Clerk J. C. Pe- terson fo d one by Dr. McLaughlin, which had been filled on the morn- ing of August 19, six days previous to the death of Bowers. Mrs. Z. C. Sutton Is Positively Identified. Early y ¥ morning he accompanied the detective to the Hall of Justice, where ton had bee taken previously. He was shown Mrs. Harry Bowers a an who bought the arsenic. He said she was rs 1 was brought into the room and he exclaimed at once woman When asked if it might not be possible that Mrs. the woman he replied that he was sure already, but that se if they wi When the last named woman appeared, he B Oh, no, she is certainly not the person to whom I sold the arsenic.” He was then requested to make a statement, which was as follows: “I remember distinctly to have sold the arsenic to a woman whom I now know to be Mrs. Sutton. It was a trifle more than a week ago. She came store and presented a scription to which Dr. McLaughlin's name attach lling for an ounce of the poison. I had filled several of the physician’s p riptio) at other times, but did not compare the signatures. atton said that she wanted to get the arsenic to give to the doctor. He sh serted, to use it externally for a sore. She bought some ab- cotton and w other articles at the same time and paid 9 cents for wole purchase. I saw her at the store several times before and knew her I am positive that she is the woman who bought I know how serfous a thing it is to say, but here I am t tell the truth? I cautioned Mrs. Sutton about the use of e is no mistake e poisc would not handle it. I remembered her immedi- ately when 1 s B 1 The paper on which the prescription is written is evidently a leaf torn from a blank book and does not contgin the physician’s letter head, as do all his other prescriptions. The handwriting, even to the unpracticed eye, resembles of Mrs. M th rtin Bowers very closely. The drug clerk tells a_straightfor- ward story a ements full credence by the police officials. Mr: Sutton face to face by Peterson that she presented the fate- ful plece of paper calling for the arsenic replied, “You are mistaken; it was some one else.” In reference to the charge she sai “I never bought any a c in my life. I do not know even what it looks like. Mr. Peterson is mi I visited the store on several days before August 19 and once since then, but not on that date. I went to see Mr. Bow- nearly every day while he was sick, but never gave him any medicine. My sister or Harry Bowers or his wife always attended the sick man. I cooked for them nearly every day, as I always went there in the afternoon. Refuses to Tell Name of Person She Suspects. “When I secured medicine it was some black stuff in a small bottle. I do t know the name of it. I gave it to some of them at the house and they ad- t to Mr. Bowers. I made some other purchases of articles for myselt s I always went to the drug store on the corner of Fifth and Folsom I will not say whom I suspect of poisoning Mr. Bowers. I am in- nocent of all wrong. I simply visited my sister and her sick husband and did what I could to help them. It is surely not true that I bought the arsenic.” supper at times. treets. Mrs. Martin Bowers w confronted with a statement from Dr. McLaughlin that his signature to the prescription was forged. Then she was asked to write “arsenic” and *“McLaughlin, D.” This she did. She was informed that the similarity between her own handwriting and that of the forged document was great. After some further questioning she made the following statement: “I am innocent. I know nothing of any arsenic. 1 did not write that pre- scription. I loved my husband and would not do anything to injure him. I gave him his medicine according to the doctor’s orders. There is nothing between me and that slob O'Lea I had drinks with him a few times, but that was all. I never intended to elope with him. That is all a falsehood. I drew the mcney from the bank because I taought Harry Bowers or his wife might try to make trouble for me on account of it. I did everything I could to make my husband comfortable while he was sick. If any person bought poison and gave it to Mr. Bowers I know nothing of it % Dr. McLaughlin, when informed of the state of affairs, sald: “My signature to that pregeription calling for an ounce of arsenic is a forgery. I never pre- scribed arsenic for Bowers, but did give him some strychnine at various times. I thought that he was probably suffering from ptomaine poisoning and treated him accordingly. It might have been arsenic, but how could one suspect that? I observed that the patient never vomited after coming to the Waldeck Sanatorium and that he commenced it again when he returned to Clementina street. I did not think Mrs. Bowers was feeding him according to directions. I do not sign my McLaughlif, M. D." I have no idea who could have forged my signa- ' Statements Regarding Watch Are Conflicting. An interesting feature of the case is the conflict of testimony in rsgard to the ownership of a lady’s gold watch. It was found on O'Leary at the time of hls arrest. He said that he had bought it of a jeweler In a store somewhere south of Market street. He bought it because it was cheap, although he had a time- piece of his own. He had had it for several weeks, e The watch was taken to Mrs. Martin Bowers and she said that it was hers. She gave it 10 O'Leary to keep partly because it was not worth anything, partly because it did not keep time and partly because she did not like to leave it in the house. The lid to the case showed that something had been pasted ingide - and then torn out. When asked what this had been she replied that it was her husband’s picture. The police officials belleve that this indicates that the relations between thg suspected woman and O'Leary were closer than either would like to have known in the present emergency. O'Leary is an ignorant laborer. He knows nothing of the accomplishments of reading or writing. He could not tell the number of the house in which he lived. When questioned regarding his knowledge of the cnt under investiga- tion he sai I do not think Mrs. Bowers poisoned her husband. It is untrue that he hit me over the head with a chair. I was at the house when he came from Mare Jsland that night and was introduced to him. I visited him several times later while he was sick. I never heard that Mrs. Bowers wanted to get ri?of him. I got acquainted with her about seven months ago. I was coming up the street and she said, ‘Hullo, Mr. O'Leary.’ I talked to her then and we had a'few drinks in a saloon. I saw her a number of times after that, 1 know nothing of any wrongdoing and want to get out.” After a long cross-examination by Chief of Police Wittman yesterday morn- ing the women were allowed to go to the funeral of Martin Bowers. They were accompanied by Detective Braig. Both Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Martin Bowers were in tears all day long. Neither would remove her eyes from the ground. The “sweating”” wore on them considerably. In the evening they were given a severe examination by the uistrict Attorney. Peterson again appeared in an- swer to a summons and repeated his story. Mrs. Sutton was again positively e IR Ourrons S/gyATURE THE FoRGE SIGHRTURE oy THE PRESCRIPTION s Woa 2.8 Setton_ Mos Moo [ [z SIS BowERS SGHATURE X & -+ 02 /7avenns! SICHITURE LoC TETERSON. WHO FULEQ OUT THE PRESCRIPTION *FOR THE | ARSENIC | <IN o+ ERS, DRUG CLE PRESCRIPTION ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN FORGED BY MRS. BOW- 'K WHO FILLED IT AND MAN WHOM WOMAN IS SAID TO HAVE POISONED HER HUSBAND. i it FOR LOVE OF ! identified as the pur of the morning and statements. John Cunningham, a er in the Oberon, was also examined last night. He had been a frequent visitor at the Clementina-street house. He denied all knowledge of any ill-feeling between Martin Bowers and his wife. He was al- lowed to depart on the understanding that he would be on hand if wanted. Police Search for a M The authorities have iny band for that reason. All the a certain sum weekly, which ws Bowers deposited the ma withdrew the $2800 and placed book at the latter institution wanted to get the money a fourth marriage, thi Professor Morgan, who, under the direction of City Chemist Green, is exam- inine the internal organs of the dead man, stated yesterday that the quantitative analysis would not be completed for two or three days yet. Arsenic in large quantitie§ was present in Bowers' stomach No charge will be placed against the names of any of those de- Chief Wittman says more evidence is forthcoming. white powder. tained for severa! days yet Dr. Draper, attending physician at the German Hospital, statement in regard to the Bowers case “When the patient was brought in he was in a dying condition. of the arsenic. d not vary to any considerable extent from their previous estigated the matter of the bank account and find that Mrs. Martin Bowers could not have been influenced to murder her hus- while that he was at Mare Island he sent down s deposited in the Hibernia Savings Bank. Mrs. and could have drawn it at any time. it in the German Savings Bank she left her pass- The police .think that she feared arrest where it could not be touched. she cared much more for the ignorant O’Leary than she cares to have known. Her husband was jealous of her, and his death might have cleared the way for time with O'Leary. ——pe Both women maintained their stand otive for the Murder. ‘When she and 1t is thought that The arsenic was in the form of made the following yesterda; I immediate- ly applied the usual restoratives and did everything to keep him alive. I was not positive to his ailment, as I made no examination myself, as the man was too far gone. At the time of his death I refused to sign the death certificate, as I had not treated the patient for any sickness myself and was therefore obliged to notify the Coroner. I explained this to Mrs. Bowers. The patient was in tho building only a few hours before he died.” The funeral of Mr. Bowers was held Alta Lodge No. 203, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Bowers, Mr. The usual funeral services were canducted at the Odd Fellows' Hall and the remains were removed to Mount Olivet Cemetery, where funeral were Mrs. Martin members of the lodge. they were interred. L o e e e e e e aa a m ) WANDERING ORPHAN BOY ’ ARRIVES IN THIS CITY Ten-Year-Old James Erskine Travels Alone From Galveston, Texas. In the detention room of the City Hall Police Station, a lad of ten summers, who has wandered all the way from Gal- veston, Tex., watches and waits for the time when he will be free and able to re- turn once more to the existence he loves =0 well. His name is James Erskine and he can relate tales of his travels that would fill a small volume, The lad arrived in this city last Wednes- day afternoon, according to his own story. He journeyed about town till he reached the Mission district, and being tired and weary, he sat down on a Guerrero-street doorstep and fell asleep. He was found later by Patrolman O'Connor and taken to the City Hall station, where he will be kept till a home is found for him. The lad is a native of Galveston, and he left there several weeks ago, beating his way to this city on freight trains. His father was killed when he was a mere infant and his mother met her death in the terrible Galveston flood three years ago, gEver since his mother's death the boy lived with an aunt. He became tired of home and resolved to come to California. He says he had a pleasant trip and adds that he wants to be released and go to work and earn his own living. He is a bright little chap and is a remarkably good talker for one of his age. —_————— Accused of Stealing Watches. - M. Sena, a peddler, was instructed and arraigned before Police Judge Mogan yes- terday on a charge of grand, larceny and the case was continued till Monday. On Thursday afternoon he entered the store of Abraham Samuels, 1092 Howard street, and kept. Samuels in conversation while a confederate stole eight watches from the counter. Sena was arrested by De- tectives Regan and U'Conneil, but his companien succeeded In making his es- cape. vesterday under the auspices of Those that attended the and Mrs. Harry Bowers and brother PRINTERS WANTED FOR PHILIPPINE SERVICE Opportunity for Cca;pouitorl Book- binders, Pressmen, Proof-Readers, Electrotypers, Electricians, Etc. The United States Civil Service Com- mission announces that the following ex- aminations will be held at San Francisco on October 21 for the Philippine service: Estimate clerk and computer, salary $1600 per annum: jacket writer, $1600; proof- reader and reviser, $1600; compositor, $1400; compositor-linotype operator, $1400; book- binder, $1400; pressman, $1400; electrotyper, $1600; photo engrayer, $1400; electriclan- engineer-machinist, $1600 or $1800, depend- ing upon the qualifications of the person seiected. If the person appointed to this position displays intelligence and demon- strates his efficiency there is a good op- portunity for his promotion to $2000 per annum. The age limits for all of these examinations are 18 to 40 yvears. Apply to the Tinited States Civil Service Com- mission, Washington, D. C., or secretary of the Consolidated Board of Civil Ser- vice Examiners, 301 Jackson street San Francisco, for application forms 2 and 1093, which should be properly executed and filed with the commission at Wash- ington. e Republican Delegates. The Thirty-eighth Assembly District delegation to the Republican nominating convention met last night at club head- quarters at the corner of Golden Gate avenue and Webster streef. Twenty-two of the twenty-five delegates-elect were present. Max Goldberg was elected chairman. A resolution indorsing Henry Ach for chairman of the convention was unanimously adopted. The Twenty-eighth Assembly District delegates to the Re- publican local convention met recently on East street and indorsed John J. Fan- ning of 308 Folsom street for Supervisor. He is 40 years of age and a man of fam- ily. Before going into business for him- self he was a_marine engineer and skilled machinist. The district has not had a Supervisor since Chris Dunker’s term ex- pired eight years ago. Dr. McLaughlin T_ell—srl of Bowers’ Stay at Waldeck. N an interview at Petaluma yesterday | Dr. McLaughlin inferred that he, did not care to be mixed up in the Bowers case, although he willingly reviewed the events which transpired previous | to the death of the bridge builder. While Dr. McLaughlin would not say that Bowers died from arsenical poison- ing, he thought all of the conditions strange, to say the least. When Dr. Me- Laughlin first took charge of the case Bowers, according to the statement of his wife, had been suffering for three weeks from the effects of having partaken of | pork, she also having been a sufferer. The symptoms were diarrhea, vomiting and emactation. The physiclan refused to handle the patient unless he was removed to the Waldeck Sanatorium and Drs. Von Tietjen and Dillon had been reimbursed for their services. Bowers had been at | the sanatorium only one day when Dr McLaughlin was successful in stopping the spells of vomiting. Later the diarrhea gave way to treatment and on a die: of peptonized milk the sick man appeared on the road to recovery. Dr. McLaughlin's treatiment had been the regular one employed In cases of ptomaine poisoning, althovgh Bowers had | all the symptoms of a person suffering from lead poisoning, and this was puz- | zling. In fact, it was such an interesting | and unusual feature that Dr. MgLaughlin | invited Dr. O'Brien of Petaluma to have a look at the patient, and this latter phy- siclan corroborated yecterday the state- ment of Dr. McLaughlin. After being at the sanatorium nearly four weeks. Dr. McLaughlin thought Bowers well enough to be taken home and so told his wife, es- peclally as she complained of being too poor to keep her husband at such an es- tablishment. ‘ Strangely enough, the very day that Bowers was removed to his Clementina- street restdence, there was a_resumption of the vomiting spells. said that her husband was unable to take the peptonized milk longer. As Dr. Lagen had at this stage been summoned in the case, Dr. McLaughlin refused to have anything more to do with the patient. | .-l-l—!—l—l—l—l—l—l—l—!—l—l—!—l—l—l—H’H-l-l-.‘; A MAN WITH A METHOD. A Practical Salesman Inaugurates a Successful System for Trav- eling Men. Mr. Charles S. Burhaus and wife of Elk- hart, Ind., are visiting San Francisco on a trip both of business and pleasure. Mr. Burhaus holds one of the most re- sponsible positions in the business of the Dr. Miles Medical Company, which ranks as one of the leading patent medicine in- stitutions of the world. He has the superintendence and direc- tion of over fifty traveling salesmen, and has originated and perfected a system of organization of his force that is said to be nearer perfection than any other used in this line of business. In some instances men are routed for a ten months’ trip be- fore returning to the home office, and vet Mr. Burhaus' system is so minutely per- fect that he knows each day just where his representative is. Another feature which has vastly extended his reputation has been the establishment of a traveling men’'s school of instruction, which con- sists of a three weeks’' course each year. Early in July the men are called in from the road and are organized into three classes and daily are addressed upon top- ics pertaining to each feature and detail of the business. They are informed of trade conditions existing in all parts of the country, as well as the banking and crop situation, and are asked to freely co. operate with the management in the dis- cussion of business policies for the ensu- ing year. Some impression of the magni- tude of the business of this company may be gained when it is known that nearly 200 men are on the pay roll and that dur- ing the year 20,000,000 pieces of literature are distributed from house to house, be- sides mailing 4,000,000 pleces of additional matter to separate addresses. In view ol this enormous amount of postal material Elkhart has been ralsed from the position of. twelfth postoffice in importance in In- diana to fourth position. Mr. Burhaus has been for nine years in the service of the company and was for many years a traveling salesman. Havis spent several ‘weeks in Southern Califo: and this city he returns to the East in a few days. —_——— Mrs. Bowers also The idea that cherry stones, grape seeds and the like are the cause of appendicitis does not seem to be borne out by ex- perience. They are sometimes found in the vermiform appendix, but there is no good reason for believing that they really cause appendicitis. | the Scape and Spurwin. | decided that no landing was effec NAVY'S GALLANT - FEATS ARE VOID Umpires in War Game Decide Against Invaders. Contest Between Squadron and Chaffee’s Troops Will End at Ncon. —_— PORTLAND, Me., Aug. 28.—At noon to- morrow the mimic war waged off this port since midnight Tuesday, with all manner of maneuvers by the navy, will come to an end and the several thousand men hurried to the defense of the city will be withdrawn from the harbor defenses To-day’s movements consisted of a flerce engagement, during which a landing party of 1800 men under Rear Admiral Coghlan captured all the stations and defenses of The marines and Jackies landed almost at dawn and were engaged until after noon, when they re- turned to the fleet, which had remained off Richmonds Island all day. Rear Ad- miral Coghlan belleved he had achieved the grandest victory of the navy, but at 3:45 Lieutenant Jordan, in command of the engineer corps at the Two Lights, was in- formed by telephone that the umpires had 1 by the invaders, as the men and boats had been put out of action before the landing was attempted. Therefore the capture o all the points on the Scape, including t signal hlight and fire trol tions at Two Lights, the defenses at e ver Springs and the searchlight at Pon | Cove, was vold, and they stand as if ne attempt had been made at their capture. This left the immense searchlights in action for a demonstration to-night. Re- ports that the invaders e marching upon the forts and the city prevailed, but if such had been the intention it was not carried out, the men returning to the ships at 3:45. The men standing at the entrenchments on Meeting House Hill, three miles from the city, were reinforced by 600 men from the forts in anticipation of an assault from the invaders or an at- tempt to march upon the city proper. The capture of this force would require more than 6000 invaders. —————e KANSAS RIVER CONTINUES TO RISE THREATENINGLY Floods Do Much Damage to Prop- erty in Omaha and Coun- cil Bluffs. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. ‘The pre- dicted rise in the Kansas River at this point is being realized. From midnight to 8 o'clock this morning the river had risen three feet, a total of eight feet in twenty- four hours, and it continues to rise at the rate of two inches an hour. It is expected that the water will continue to come up at the present rate for another twelve hours at least. OMAHA, Aug. 25.—Three deaths are re- ported as a result of the high water. Two of them were Jefferson Keep and Edgar Hamilton, aged 10 and 11, in South Omaha. They were swimming in back- water and got beyond their depth and were drowned before assistance could reach them, The third was Willie Paulsen, who lost his life in the flooded cellar of his home in_Council Bluffs. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., Aug. 2.—All the lower portions of the city are still under water that has covered the lower floors of many homes. Rowboats were being used in several of the down-town districts to-day and, that_portion of the country between here and the south is a solid lake. Street cars were abandoned on' the line to Manawa and launches are being used instead. But one railroad had ! clear tracks out of the city to-day. East- ern mails are forty-eight hours late. BILLINGS, Mont., Aug. 28.—Word has been received here from Mooreroft, Wyo., that the most disastrous cloudburst in the history of that section occurved there yes- terday morning. Two large bridges on the Burlington and a large amount of trackage were washed out and destroyed, delaying traffic from twelve to twenty- four hours. Two passenger trains are stalled and it is not expected to get trains through until late to-night, —e—————— QUARREL OVER TOOLS ENDS IN A HOMICIDE John Hippert Jr. Shoots and Kills L N. Robinson, a Pioneer, in God’s Country. NEVADA, Aug. 28.—As a result of an altercation over some borrowed tools and a small sum of money, I. N. Robinson is dead and John Hippert Jr. is in custody. Word was received at Graniteville this morning that a shooting affray had taken place in God's country, and a constable was dispatched to the sceme. The Cor- oner and Sheriff left for the place this morning. There were no witnesses to the shooting, but young Hippert's version is that he shot in self defense. I N. Rob- inson, the murdered man, was a native of Ohio, but has resided in the State for more than forty years, and was con- sidered well to do. He shot and killed Patrick Mulligan several years ago, but | was acquitted on the plea of self defense. RIS MRS. ALEXANDER WINTON DROWNS HERSELF IN LAKE Wife of Manufacturer of Automo- biles, Suffering From Sickness, Takes Her Own Life. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 25.—Mrs. Alexander Winton, wife of the president of the Winton Automobtle Company, com- mitted sulcide early to-day by throwing herself into the lake. Mrs. Winton had been in fll-health for several months. She arose from bed early this morning during the temporary absence of her nurse and disappeared. Subsequently her body was recovered from the lake. Intimate friends express the belief that she accigentally fell over the steep em- bankment near the Winton residence. When the body was found it was clad only in a night robe. —_———— Death of a Former Legislator. STOCKTON, Aug. 28—W. R. Leadbet- ter, a ploneer resident of this city, who was identified with the eity’s progress for years, being City Superintendent of Schools, and holding other positions of trust, died this morning at the age of & years. A widow and two married daugh- ters survive him. He represented this dis- trict in the Legislature in 188, and was formerly a member of the Maine Legis'a- ture. - THE CALL'S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, 1903, and all holders of Atlas Coupons are requested to pre- sent them immediately, as this great opportunity to secure ome of these splendid Atlases at The Call’s premium rates will be brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. L e s 4 TR s