The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1903, Page 1

¢ Forednst made at San Fran- cisco ffr thirty hours ending t, November 27: San Prancisco snd vicinity— Pair Friday; lght northwest wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. | - THE Alcazar—"“A Poor Relation.” California—“At the OI4 Cross Roads.” Central— Midnight in China- town.” - Columbia—Virginia Hamed in “Iris.” Pischer's—“Rubes and Roses.” Grand—“Ben Hur.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. + VOL XCIV~— 180. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UME UPSETS 0L OF ENGLAND | THEORIES OF HEAR BRYAN| SCIENTISTS American Colony Experimenter With Entertains in Radium Makes London. | Discovery. Nebraskan Is GuestiLearns That One Ele- at Thanksgiving | ment May Change Banquet, to Another. ges in a Du—el of Rep- ee With Embassador Choate i STATESMEN Mysterious Substanc: Gives| Off a Gas That Turns to Helium. Enga | [ | the field ar ¥y with regard to t ance radium, which has been puzzling| ¥, whose namne is of Lord Rayte'gh n and he »n Institution and definitely | ave off heavy ly charges ia‘o h ady of ar , said ng of the Lond. lium discovery scientists lies, according that it all old theories | rto chemistry theory that the and that one ther, but now it radium of its own accord 1out external interference turns into a totally different element. LONG RESEARCH REWARDED. that States have | £ th high s is lecture Sir William Ramsay et . d how, after a long search into | ot lem of what became of the | particles with which radium | was alw ng, he was quite lately | other manifestations gives off an emanati to beh in all respects | > collected in -d and weighed and - characteristic prop- dium, but it is not perma- In about a month it entirely dis- ra ve It can u i becomes of it? Sir William > has caught this emanation in vanishing. He found that been collected for a cou- . its spectrum, which pre- & 5 entirely unlike any yet | 1 to display the typical helium gas, first known ed by its constant presence . | th sun TRANSFORMATION TO HELIUM. or five days the helium lines ighter and in another week the of hellum was positively | news inform dis- Amer- ked the forbear- £ him— etting him land r not having fter his ar- ted ex- Bank of attention, h 1 the day | nksgiving ntly of the € re thanks to G and of ah must thank their English He urged t generation bequeathing the necessity some gift commensurate essings they had estors and suggested that the ideal of international hey bequeat umity, of which The Hague arbitration ribunal tr was a lasting monu- nent Haill to the nation,” concluded Mr. 3yran, “whatever her name, who leads he world toward this high ideal for he lasting good of all humanity.” v et PRESIDENT'S QUIET DAY. >asses Holiday With His Family and Personal Friends. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The Presi- Continued on Page 2, Column 6. murderous | received | g in the hermetically seale that had been filled with the pure us output, of ra rds, 2lement seen to change into | different nature un- eyes of the experimenter. | t is this, asked Sir William, but ctual case of that transmutation element into another in which fent alchemists believed when they sought to change lead into gold and in- cidentally founded the modern science of chemistry? Editorially commenting on Ramsay’s great discovery, the Daily Mail says: | “It is as though gold were to change |into iron of its own accord and com- | pletely upset the laws of the old chem- |istry. No wonder that, with this amaz- |ing fact before them, scientists are | hopeful of reading the riddle of the | universe.” —————— SOLDIERS IN BAVARIAN | ARMY TO BE PROTECTED Chamber of Representatives Adopts Resolution Requiring the Dismis- sal of Cruel Officers. MUNICH, Bavaria, Nov. 26.—The Ba- varian Chamber of Representatives has | unanimously adopted a resolution re- | quiring the dismissal from the service ¢ all officers and non-commissioned officers found guilty of mistreating sol- | diers and the War Minister, General | Bonen Verasch, has approved the reso- lution, declaring that ‘the Bavarian my authorities are already conform- with the spirit of the resolution and | bave dismissed two officers this year who did not exercise necessary watch- fulness. The Minister approved sum- nary treatment, especially in the case of brutal non-commissioned officers. ————— Carter Goes Free To-Morrow. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Nov. 26.— Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engi- neers, U. 8. A., who has served three years and seven months of a five years’ sentence in the Federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, will pass out of the gate of the prison Saturday morning a free man. He intends going directly to Chicago. Carter positively declines to be interviewed by newspaper men, his attorney, H. G. Stone, of Chicago, warning him to say notning whatever. In or other | CANAL PAGT la RATIFIED IN ADVANGE PanamaJunta Acts Before Treaty Arrives. Notifies Washington That Agreement Is Satisfactory. Favorable Action by Ameri- can Senate Will Now Insure Waterway. PANAMA, Nov. .—The junta, com- sed o Jose Augustin Arango, To- Arias and Manuel Espinosa, held a meeting this morning, all the Minis- ters state and Councillors being present, and unanimously decided to 1atify the canal treaty as soon as it is received here, and Minister 3unau-Varilla offi 7. to transmit the 5 ion to the United States The decision of the junta with great joy tnrough- isthmus, r clas valker and G of the action WASHING confirn of o, es. Rear Admirals aken by the juuta. Nov. 2 e determination of vernment to ratify the arilla Panama canal treaty was ed by Minister Varilla at 2:50 o'cleck to: y. The State Department being cl to-day, Varilla took the y to Loomis, who is act- ing in the of Hay. The Min- ster's dispatch follows: NOTIFICATION FROM JUNTA. “PANAMA, Nov. 26.—Varilla, Minie- potentiary of the Republic of Washington—in view of the approbation given the Amador and Boyd (the commissioners who were sent by the Government of Panama to confer with Varilla) to the Hay arilla treaty, you are authorized to notify ally the Government of the United States that as s dos i is received by tne junta of the Gov ment of the republic of Fan- ama it will be ratified and sigred. 0. )sence by PINOSA. Minister of ‘ountersigne the Foreign Rel SPARILLA." attention to the sage received by him ; by the members of the Minister of he says, gives of a Minister Vari fact that the m is signed not ¢ the junta, but also by Foreign Relations, which, the communication the character formal decree of the Government. DUE TO VARILLA'S URGING. The action taken by the Panama junta doubtless is due, in part at least, | to the urgent representations of Minis- | ter Varilla that prompt steps be taken with a view to the ratification of the treaty as soon as it shall reach Pan- ama. Last day the Minister ca- bled a long synopsis of the treaty to Panama, and since that time had been in communication with the Govern- ment on the subject. The Minister recounted with a great deal of gratification to-night the rapid progress of events since the birth of the new republic of Panama, three weeks ago, ending to-day with the dec- | laration of the junta to ratify the Pan- ama canal treaty. Dr. Herran, the Colombian Charge, to-day received a dispatch from Gen- eral Reyes, the Colombian peace com- missioner, who left New Orleans last night, saying that he would reach Washington early Saturday morning. ‘With him is General Pedro Ospina. Francesco de Manotas, who arrived at New York to-day from Savanilla, is a member of the commission sent by the Governor of the State of Bolivar to the United States to obtain information as to the real state of affairs on the isth- mus. His departure was delayed at the time his fellow-commissioners, who ar- rived in Washington some days ago, left Bolivar. He has no diplomatic status. STATE OF WAR EXISTS. Decree Closing Bolivar’s Ports Dubs Panama a “Rebel Enemy.” COLON, Nov. 26.—The text of the de- cree closing the ports of the Depart- ment of Bolivar reached here to-day. It prohibits until further notice all traffic or business between the ports in that department and “the rebel depart- ment” of Panama and says. “The Department of Panama having declared itself free and independent and having taken up arms against the national Government in efforts to de- stroy Colombian integrity, dignity and honor, Colombia requires the employ- ment of such measures as are indis- pensable for the punishment and sup- pression of the rebels. The act closing the ports mentioned is taken by the Government of Bolivar independent of the Bogota Government. Bolivar can do all she considers necessary for the defense of the state and among the measures which the legitimate ends of war warrant is the depriving of the enemy of resources and the free traffic of commerce.” without distinction of | s have been informea | | ~Official | delegates, | on as the | MAJOR M’CLUNG DIES OF HIS WOUND AND HIS SLAYER, ALEXANDER GARNETT, IS ARRESTED BY POLICE [ | \ [ | f | | | IN OAKLAND | 3 | |Accused Is Found in for His Major J. W. McClung, who was shot by Alexander L. Garneit Wednesday evening in the apartments of Mrs. Lillian Hitchcock Cpit tn the | Palace Hotel, died at the Waldeck Hospital yesterday afternoon. A few down Company With Mrs Coit’s Attorney, Preparing Statement Defense. |to whom she made a statement, pub- | lished vesterday, to the effect that Gar- | | and after a few | pistol and announced his intention to kill her, whereupon Major McClung jumped to the rescue and received a | nett had suddenly burst in upon her | | remarks had drawn a | | hours later Garnett was arrested in a | bullet that was intended for her. Me- | 10dging-house in Oakland and was im- | Clung fell to the floor and then, she mediately brought to this city, where | said, she rushed to her télephone, but A charge of murder will against his name. Mystery is enveloping the tragedy, which has attracted widespread inter- | est owing to the prominence of those involved. There is evidence of an ef- fort being made to conceal something, but just what only those who figure in the strange case are able to tell, They f not only refuse to clear the mystery, but seem to be trying to throw obsta- cles in the way of the Investigators. AIDING THE SLAYER. McClung's last statement, made a few hours before he died, briefly ac- cuses Garnett of the shqoting, but ex- cuses the murderous act on the ground that the man was drunk when he com- mitted the deed. Those at the bedside of the dying man, among whom was his wife, seemingly agquiesced in his taking this view of the matter. While McClung was gasping the few words that will materially aid Alexander Gar- nett in his defense, Mrs. Coit, through the medium of a relative, Porter Gar- nett, who is a cousin of the slayer of McClung, was preparing a statement for the press, in which she, too, ex- presses the opinion that the deed was a drunken man’s act. A few hours later, when the police of Oakland arrested Garnett, he was in the company of the attorney of Mrs. Coit, preparing his own statement pre- paratory to giving himself up to-day, and when taken into custody he said the shooting was accidental; that noth- ing would ever come of his case and that there would not be any prosecu- tion. With marked emphasis he added: “And you can rest assured of that.” SITUATION STRANGE ONE. It is a strange train of circumstances that is developing out of the shooting. Contradictory statements have been made by all the persons that were in the apartments of Mrs. Coit at the time and immediately after the shooting oe- curred. Wednesday night, after Mrs. Coit had apparently recovered from the excitement attending the shooting of McClung, she instructed the hotel at- tendants to admit no interviewers to be placed The decree provides also that neutral Continued on Page 2, Column 1. her apartments. At midnight, how- ever, she received two acquaintances, | he is now confined in the City Prison. | was grabbed by Garnett, who. placed | his pistol to her breast and threatened | to shoot her if she made an outcry. A | few seconds later, when it had dawned upon Garnett's befuddled mind that he ‘hn(l « mitted a crime, he suddenly ! left the apartments of his former bene- | factress and disappeared, she said. | Dr. George Shiels, who attended Mec- | Clung before he was removed to the | Waldeck Hospital, also related how he | had been summoned to Mrs. Coit's | rooms, where he had been preceded by {Dr. Whitney, a close friend of Mrs. Coit, and found McClung lying uncon- scious on the floor. ISSUES NEW STATEMENT. Yesterday Mrs. Coit, through her | nephew, Forter Garnett, issued another | statement, this time direct to the pa- | pers, in which she presented quite a | new version of the affair. It reiter- ated her previous statement regarding | the abrupt entrance of Garnett to her |apartments, of his threats to kill her and of the ensuing struggle between ated in Garnett. breaking out of tr.e "clul(‘hes of the major and shooting the |latter down. Mrs. Coit's statement | proceeds to recount how Garnett next | turned his weapon on her and told | her he was going to kill her. She was | pleading with him when McClung, who | had been lying on the floor, slowly rose, a movement that was quickly | noted by Garnett, who turned from her a moment. As he did so Mrs. Coit | said she stepped over to the telephone, i but Garnett anticipated her intentions by dashing the phone from her hand. McClung by this time had opened his waistcoat, revealing a blood-stained shirt front, a sight which, she says, startled Garnett. She told the latter that McClung was dying and appealed to Garnett to go for a doctor. T GARNETT BRINGS DOCTOR. Then follows an interesting story that Garnett had recovered his sober senses and fully appreciated the serious predicament into which he had got | himself. Mrs. Coit in her statement tells how Garnett laid down his pistol, with the remark that he would go for a doctor, and at once left the room, reappearing shortly afterward. accompanied by Dr. | McClung and Garnett, which termin- ; going out to “bring Bradley,” to H. W. Bradley of the law firm of Bradley & McKinstry, who is an old friend of Mrs. Coit and has acted as her legal adviser. Garnett left the ho- find Bradley. He returned later to Mrs. Coit's rooms and was met by her in the hallway, where they conversed for a few seconds, and then, after ask- ing for his overcoat, he departed for good. Why no attempt was made to appre- hend Garnett on his second or third visit to Mrs. Coit's rooms, when two physiclans were close at hand and the hotel filled with guests and employes, who would have readily responded to [ a call, is a matter that is yet to be de- termined by the police in their investi- | gation. STATEMENT REVISED. Yesterday, when Porter Garnett gave out Mrs. Coit's statement to the pa- pers, he exolained that it had been pre- pared by him at Mrs. Coit's suggestion | and that they had together gone over | it carefully a number of times during | the night. Porter Garnett vouched for its correctness in every detail. Last | evening, however, he made the rounds | of the newspaper offices with a cor- | rected -statement. the main feature of which was relative to Garnett’s actions after the shooting and especially that portion referring to Garnett's leaving Mrs. Coit’s rooms the second time. He said Mrs. Coit was not sure that Gar- nett went to the Hoffman Cafe, but re membered his returning and demanding his overcoat and pistol and that she told him to “hurry and get out of here. Porter Garnett also gave a new version of Alexander Garnett’s parting with the pistol with which he wounded Me- Clung. According to Mrs. Coit's cor- rected sgatement. immediately after the shooting, McClung, although badly wounded. attempted to leave her room, referring | tel, presumably to go to the Hoffman | Cafe, where he evidently expected to | | —_— - - - TWO PRINCIPALS IN FATAL TRAG D IN THE E PALACE HOTEL ESDAY NIGH WOMAN IN | WHOSE APARTMENTS THE SHOOTING OCCURRED. i S - - —— + Whitney. He then said that he was | but she withhe!d him and locked the door. Later she went out into the hall- | wa followed by MeClung’'s assailant, | who continued to threaten her. PICKS UP REVOLVER. pleadings finally softened his | heart and with the remark that he | would not kill her he dropped the re- | volver at her feet and hurried away. | She picked the weapon up and carried | it back to her room, where Dr. Shiels afterward found it and put it in his | pocket, where it remained until he turned it over to the police yesterday | morning. Porter Garnett said last evening that he remained with Mrs. Colt in her apartments until nearly daylight yes- terday. She was in a nervous state and would not consider a suggestion to seek rest untii the morning papers had been brcught to her and she had read the ac- counts of the shooting. ARRESTED IN ROOM. It has been common talk among those who are acquainted with the princi- pals of the tragedy that Garnett, when wanted, would be easily located, and | the events of yesterday would suggest | that there was good foundation for the | story, for it was not many hours after } MeClung died that word was received at the local police headquarters that the slayer was in custody there. Gar- nett was arrested in a small lodging- house in Oakland shortly after 8 o'clock last evening and half an hour later he was turned over to Detective Ryan, who was dispatched from this side of the bay to get him. In company with Garnett at the time of his arrest was H. W. Bradley of the law firm of Bradley & McKinstry of this city. With Bradley, who, as be- fore stated, is a lifelong friend of Mrs. Coit and frequently her legal adviser, facts which he admitted last night, Garnett was engaged in the prepara- Continued on Page 2, Column & | Her