The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1903, Page 21

g b it all. VOLUME XCIV—NO. 112, CHINESE SUBSTITUTION SCANDAL BRINGS DEATH TO ONE MAN BY HIS OWN HAND AND OCCA SIONS SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1903—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. ARREST OF THREE OTHERS CONTROLLER 5 HELD UP By DEPUTY Colgan Has Queer!| Experience on Highway. Offieer Suspects Him | of the Theft of Diamonds. Millionaire Companion Also/| ; a Victim of Mistake at Placerville. ed them ed at $500. cted parties. red them to stop. e was rather er very suave, ves told about amon: th ficer immediately centersd upon him. > brush the dust from Col- he officer that while he Mr. Colgan homestly eceping pliferers out of had been sufficlently re- olgan’s bland features Dep- became satisfled of Col- as he had known him in e real suspected ame into town and were quick- charge. f their baggage, but ng was found. They e diamonds or having f who did take them, if, were taken at all. Th her bill. SHOTS ON THE TRAIN ALARM THE PASSENGERS Robber Attempts to Enter a Railroad Car, but Battles With Brakeman. Sept —An at- d train on g near Na- r n 25 reported train ted door and train was ibule door keman veral s} 1 was pi and DEATH ENDS A FAST IN FORTY-FIVE DAYS ent Tries to Abstain From Eating, but Makes a Failure. 18.—Richard €. Rich- Pomona Re Sept for forty-five had had “a command from heav- sixty for his =oul and in ntreaties 1f his wife, chil- ends he adhered to his deter- IILLS HIMSELF WHIL IN A DESPONDENT MOOD fessor Clarke, Formerly Connected With Stanford University, Com- mits Suicide in Ohio. Ohio, Sept. 19.—Professor Clarke of the Ohlo State committed suicide to-day by nself in the head. It is sup- reason for the deed was mining investments. Profes- rsity He was a graduate of the Uni- igan and was an assistant Leland Stanford University wo ¥ ANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 15.— years ssor Cl e was at one time a mem- v of Stanford University. 1591 to 1882 he held the sctor in political science Z to 1884 he ‘was assistant pro- { cconomice. Professor Clarke was very well known while at Stanford, bly being due to lis rather ture. Pomaimerad BRI T Death of Monsignor Schroeder. NEW YCRK, Sept. 19.—Advices received e report the death in Germany of Mgr. proba roeder, formerly rector of the Catholic Uni- i sity in Wa - of being dia- | ie Tallac, Lake ‘ uly to have lost by | | Deputy road watching came along aristo- Just in Hood and Brad- and allowed the party to pro- | “diamond | They willingly al- | leaves a widow and two small | o | | | | \ ok i |1 & | | L= 3% e e N (S oA Wenes 1 b DEPUTY P § | | | - > Jro7, ! 4 { BorY W gy, | ——— -~ - — -« — —— -o;- NITED STATES MARSHAL GAMBLE, WHO KILLED HIMSELF AFTER CON SSSING HIS GUILT IN SUBSTITU DECREPIT CHINESE FOR YOU MONGOLIL S ORDE D CTION WTH THE PLOT TO DEPORED, AND THREE DEPUTY SHERIFFS WHOM HE IMPLICATED AND WHO HAVE ALSO C NFESSED. \. RIFLES BARK - IN A BATTLE WITH BANDITS Arizona Pursuers Plan a Fight to Reath. ial Dispatch to The Call. TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 18.—News of a battle between officers and 2 gang of {outlaws on the Biue River, in Graham | County, has been brought into Solomon- | ville. George Roberts and his notorious gang of cattle thieves and bandits had raided | the Tom Stockton range. Bob Balley, a { Deputy Sheriff; Ranger Owen Wilson and |a number of cowboys, on learning that the outlaws were abroad In the country, | started in pursuit. They caught the trall of Roberts and hie men after a ride of thirty miles up the Frisco River. They | followed the trall untll dark on last | Wednesday night, when they reached a | small stone cabin In a box canyon three miles north from the mouth of the Blue River. From Joe Irving, an old rancher and prospector who lived in the cabin, they {learned that Roberts and three of his men { had visited it & few hours before and had gone on, but after frightening Irving he confessed that they were to return that night. Accordingly Bailey and Wlison Continued on Page 23, Column 4. DEFIES WILL PSP s S Refuses to Cast Aside Man of Her Choice. 19. fon It is because of of Miss all unshaken by argument and pleading—that this sting young woman is to be mar- | rled on Saturday, October 3, to Willlam | Homer Leavitt, the painter of portraits. | When Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Neb., send out invita- tions to the marriage of their _cldest | daughter it will be the close of a strug- gle in which the strong will of the father been overcome by the even stronger will of the daughter. Behind the consent | which these invitations will signify to the | general public is a story of the supreme | effort put forth by the parents of the |young woman to prevent, and, falling in that, at least to postpone for one year | or longer the marriage of Miss Ruth to | the young widower, Willlam M. Leavitt of Newport. These and other points of ordinary im- portance are however, Insignificant be- glde the main fact that the day after Miss Bryan becomes of age—and her own mistress—she will wed the man of her cholce, as she vowed she would do when she encountered the strongest sort of pa- rental opposition fmmediately after that choice was made known in the family circle. Miss Ruth Bryan will be 18 years of age | €ves were blackened from the blow of the | — — —~———- -~ on the morning of Friday, October 2. OF PRRENTS | Willlam P. Gamble sent a bullet crash- | Ruth | | | | i | | | | | | | i | | tween Broderick and - Central W. P. Gamble Ends| Blighted Career With Bullet. e Unable to Face Con- sequeznces of His Dishone#fty. | RIVEN to desperation by the disgrace which attended the revelation of his connection with the Chinese substitution scandal, smarting under dis- | missal from his officlal post' and suffering keen remorse at having brought disc.edit upon his family and | friends, "Deputy United States Marshal ing through his brain some time in the chill, dark hours of Friday night. | He choss as a spot for the final trag- edy of his life the thickly wooded em- bankment fronting on Haight street, be- | avenue, | kfown as Blena Vista Park. Up the long | flight of stairs he dragged his weary feet, { leaving hope, love and sympathy behind, an@ penetrating about 200 yards into the park he crawled into the shrubbery and | | sought oblivion of what he deemed was | the oue irreparable mistake of a life otherwise outwardly fair and honorable | iu the sight of men, | ACT WAS DELIBERATE. | All of his preparations for death indl- | cate the utmost deliberation and a deter- mination that would brook no thwarting. After selecting a spot ohscured from the gaze of any chance passer-by on the path, | Gumble evidently sat down and placing | his revolver to his right temple, fired one shot. The bullet glanced off from the skull, inflicting a scalp wound. Finding that his first attempt was ineffectual he placed the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and fired a second time. The bul- let plowed through the teeth and gums and shattered the skull as if it had been an egg shell. In his dying convulsions Gamble turned face, downward on the grass, in which po- sition he was found. His right hana stili clutched the weapon that had brought re- lease from a life that had become un- bearable. His lips were swollen and his fatal bllet and it was hard to recognize L S.a result of . the dis- Acloxun’s made in- the matter of substituting decrepit Chinamen for young wmen of that nation- ality who have been ordered to be deported William P. | Gamble, formerly a Deputy United States Marshal, who confessed to his part in the affair, unable to bear the disgrace - attendant on his wrongdoing, shot and killed himself Friday mnight in | Buena Vista Park. His body | was discovered yesterday morning. As a result of the confession madc by Gamble, William F. Dasha, Thomas T. Burnctt and Thomas J. Decizpsey, three night jailers at. the County Jail, were taken into custody Friday stight ' and kept without communicalion in @ room in the Appraisers’ building until last evening, when they were transferred to the City Prison. . They have confessed to complicity in the substitution plot. in the distorted, face the debonaire fea- ' tures that until a few days ago looked | fearlessly back into honest men's eyes. The rigidity of the body indicated that | Geath bad ensued fully ten hours before | the discovery: i LEAVES DIRECTIONS. The act of self-destruction was not the | impulse of-a mad moment. but was delib- | crately planned for hours and perhaps | days before. On Friday morning Gam- | ble left the Frankiin Hotel at Franklin | and Market streets. where he had been | < T | | | | we Page 22, Column 4. Continued on | December. | should be | the" susoi | rately, { o'clock In the evening and lasting until 4|, Guardians of County Jail Invoived in Crime. Conspire to .Violate Federal Exclusion Law. ——e s a result of the confession made by Deputy United States Marshal Willlam P. Gamble last Monday three Sheriff's deputies are under arrest and | have made complete confes- | sions to the effect that they and the late | Marshal's deputy had been cpgaged in the work of substituting Chinese since last Willam F. Dasha, Thomas T. Burnett and Thomas J. Dempsey. These three ere on the night shift at the County Jail and it was necessary that the entire shift in the conspiracy, otherwise cions of the odd man might be aroused and detection be risked. Accord- !ing to the confessions as made to United States Marshal Shine, United States Dis- trict Attorney Woodworth, United States Secret Service Agents Willlam J. Burns | and Harmy - Moffitt, Sheriff John Lack-| mann and Deputy United States Marshal Farish, the consoirators received $200 for each Chinese person substituted. One third of this sum was Gamble's share and the two-thirds remaining was divided, or to be divided, among the tiftee jallers. THREE JAILERS CONFESS. On Friday afternoon the Federal posse called upon Sheriff Lackmann and made him atcuainted’ with that part of Gam- ble's confcssion implicating The Sheriff was thunderstruck at the reveiation and volunteered to assist the posse in bringing his guilty deputies to justicé. The posse. divided, and Dasha, Burrett and Dempsey were arrested sepa- rately and taken quiet'y to a private house. Here the prisoners were questioned sepa- the examination beginning at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. After each had weakened before the persistence of the Sheriff and the United States Mar- shal and told hig story the three were brought togcther to compare notes and barmorize apparent discrepancies. Continved on Page 22, Columa 2. i The names of the deputles are the jailers. | INSURGENTS BEGIN SiesE O MIELNIK gle Furfish Bat- talion Defends the Town. {Sultan Is Hurrying Re- | inforcements to the ; Garrison. Fighting Becomes General Throughout All East- ern Macedonia. LR SOFIA, Sept. now Sin i | onists are concentrating rations in Eastern Macedor from which latest dispat lol report that a gen- eral rising was fixed to begin to-day. The insurgents to have accumulated vast stor: ns, ammunition and dynamite reparing to emter already proceeding at Mel- which place 1s be- under the Fighting is ecaderst ff, Darving- hoff and of whom formerly were of The town of Melnik is a very important stra- command the Turkish garr sist of only on ik Delmar-Hi off, Asg the lead- Kortcha- ff and % men ready to begin opera- Severe fighting is reported to have taken place at Okhrida band of révolution- ists operating 1 rrounded a force of Tu 1 a fight er sued whi t an en day. In the even irgents, arafoff, at- on all sides and routed at the troops 1 now dies of from 3000 to 4000, e district of Leren, Turks mer lost d. The , but many re- een ed to have of Kas- officers left Con- y on their way to Sa- | e G Pt AMERICAN FISHERMEN MAXE OUT A GOOD CASE Claim That Canadian Officials Who Seized Their Boat Went by Guesswork. WELLAND, Ontario, Sept. 10.—The suit d by the owners of the Ameri D, which was seized revenue ter Petrel is alleged to have been was contin | while the fc | fishing in Canadian waters, ued ‘to-day. “The testimony developed the Petrel's commander depended on his log to fix the dividing line between American and Canadian waters. The seizure was made near the center of the lake. A storm was blowing at the time and the American fishermen claimed that the location of the line by the Cana- dian revenue officials was mors or less guesswork. The evidence presented will be argued | in Toronto at a date to be decided upon | later. | STNDICATE TO BUY ‘ SIX MJILLION ACRES | Corporation Headed by Morgan Will | Invest in Mexican Timber that Lands. | Spectal Cable to The Call and New York PHerald. Copyright, 1005, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 19.—1It is re- | ported here that an American syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan of New York has ’!rcuréd an option on about 6,000,000 acres | of land tn Western Mexico, adjacent Yo the Mayo River. Pine forests cover about 2,000,000 acres of this land. The syndicate contemplates establishing large lumber !mi]ls to utilize the timber, and it will Fbulld about 100 miles of rallway if the purchase be made. The proposed pur- chase price is sald to be 40 cents per acre. ———————— PANAMA CANAL TREATY WILL NOT BE RATIFIED Minister Beaupre Cables That Situa- tion Is Unchanged and Discus- sion Seems Hopeless. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — Minister Beaupre has abandoned hope of the ratification of the Panama ecanal treaty. He cables the State Department under date of Bogota, September 18, that the situation i nchanged, discussion seems hopeless, and the Congress proba- | bly will adjourn on October 20,