The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1903, Page 1

N 22 Alcazar—*A Poor Relation.” Caltfornite—+At the Old Cross | Roads.” Central—“Midnight in China- town.” Columbia—Virginia Hamed in Pischer's—“Rubes and Roses.” | Grand—“Ben Mur.” - 181. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. YOUTHEUL BANDITS BATTLE WITH POLICEMAN AND FARMERS AND PRISON DOORS CLOSE ON A TERRIBLE RECORD OF CRIM[:: ght murders, and a long series of robberies and other depredations, fought with weapons against a host of farmers and Chicago policemen yesterday at a town near the Iilinois metropolis. | t and several were wounded. The youthful bandits were captured and complacently confessed to the police authorities that they had taken the lives of eight : : | volved in the car-barn murders, and had succeeded in making away with more than$2000. The battle with them was one of the most exciting events in the history of the poli persons during their six o POLICEMAN AND BURGLAR DIE AFTER FIERCE BATTLE Duel Is Fought Out the Streets of Oazkland. ficer J. H. Smith Is Shot Down While at Post of Duty. Fatal in ile e COLONBINS AGENT WILL aEEK PEAGE Secret Plans of Reyes Are Dis- closed. Commissioner Wants the Good Will of Uncle Sam. —_—— | Republies Are Counseled to Join in Settling the Problem. —_—— Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1 by the New York Herald Publishing Company PORT LIMON, Costa Rica, No The secret plans, of General Reyes, the Colombian Commissioner to Washing- ton, and hjs admission that it is im- possible to march an army overiand to the Isthmus of Panama from Colom- bia, were disclosed here to-day. From an absolutely reliable source I was permitted to-day to see a copy of the cable sent by General Reyes while | here to various South and Central American reptblics. ¥tom this docu- ment, which I have had translated from Spanish into English, it seems General Reyes’ last hope is that the Latin- | American republice may instruct their | representatives at Washington to con- fer with him and adjust matters with the United States Government. Reyes’ dispatch was addressed to the United States Minister Venezuela and is as follo “PORT LIMON, Nov. 2.—Herbosa, Caracas (private): I arrived from Co- lon yesterday with Presidential powers. I have sufficient forces on the Colom- bian coast—both oceans—to quell the revolution made in Panama by the mil- itary garrison there. “Rear Admiral Coghlan, with four ironclads on the Atlantic, and Rear Admiral Glass, with four on the Pa- | cific, told me that the American Gov-| | ernment would not allow the disem- barkation of Colombian forces to the| | | | i { } \ I 1 i i i | CHIEF OF POLICE OF CHICAGO AND HIS ASSISTANT, WHO FIGURE | IN THE STORY OF THE BATTLE WITH BANDITS, WHO AFTER ’ CAPTURE CONFESSED EIGHT MURDERS. L Boys Confess Their Participation in e Eight Murders and Many Robberies. .‘ I ! | 1 OAKLANT buliets at 7 the aristocrat A fustllade of -night startled Lakeside district, and when the b e in the dark was over Policeman J. H h lay dying on the stepe of 2 nearby house, one burg- lar was dead tw cks from where d the second K s the shooting occurred burglar had escaped Two hours later Policeman died from his wounds a: fre police force of Oa rching for the man who got away. h was the record night's work in the effort to capture the burglars that had been working Oskland successfully for thirty days. Ever since the robbery of the Crel- lin nnan residences in one night whic ulted in the-theft of $6000 Smith to-night the nd is out sea b of one dy worth of gems, half of the police force of Ozkland has been doing special duty in citizen's clothes. It has been the @uty of these men to stop and ques- tion every suspicious character met, &nd it was in the performance of this duty that Policeman Smith came to his death Smith wae detajled in the wealthy Lakeside district jn the neighborhood of where the red less than two weeks ago. It was in this section that further attempts were expected. and the policemen in _, this neighborhood had been especially , warned 10 be on their guard. OFFICER FOLLOWS SUSPECTS. The yousg officer was at the corner of Fourteesth and Madison streets at two big robberies occur- | E OAKL. SHT WITH TWO PORCH KILLED, AND SCENE OF THE B: AND POLICEMAN WHO CLI WAS FATALLY SHOT IN A BURGLAR THAT WAS territory of Panama, and as there is| absolutely no overland route to mobil- | B g on the sidewalk s that had no lights, iced that the men wore 4 his suspicions, they walked toward Thir- ng Thirteenth and then up Fourteenth suspicion in and 0 meet Smith street © Jackson. hesitation about the movements of the young policeman. He saw several cious circumstances, and with the courage that had marked his career in the department he deter- mined to satisfy those suspicions or land the men. The fact that there were them as they came There was two men and that he was alone did not | deter him, and he dashed down Four- teenth street just in time to meet them at the corner of Jackson as they had doubled back upon their trail. ‘Without a moment’s hesitation Smith stopped the men and began to question | them as to who they were and where they came from. Their answers were vague and unsatisfactory, and when they did not explain to his satisfaction Smith said: TRIES TO ARREST TWO. “1 zuess that you had better come with me up to the City Hall, on sus- picion.” No sooner were the words out of his mouth than one of the men drew a re- volver and opened fire. Smith, though he must have been hit early in the firing, drew his revolver | and fired back. | Nine shots were probably exchanged, for the burglar is believed to have emptied his revolver. and Smith is | thought to have fired four shots of the | five in his weapon. Smith then “broke” his revolver in an attempt to reload it, | but was overcome by the wound, anf dropped. One loaded shell, found be- | side four empty ones where Smith was | standing, is belleved to tell the story of how he tried to reload his weapon before the last chamber was emptied. The two burglars ran down Four- | teenth street toward Lake Merritt, and one of them was heard by Smith to say “Walit for me, Kid.” Smith dragged himself up the steps of the residence of Charies T. Palmer, 7 o'clock ths evening when he noticed | the cashier of ‘the Union National he | | | | | | | i i | Bank, in front g rred. |, The entire neighborhocd was aroused | s, and people began running from all directions, but instead of try- ing to stop those running away from the scene, efforts were directed toward finding out what had occurred. Mem- | bers of Mr. Paimer's family rushed to the door and found the dying police- man on the At that moment Reeves Baker rushed from the Hamil- ton residence opposite Fourteenth street, and telephoned word of the shooting to Police Captain Petersen, in charge at the City Hall POLICE RUSH TO SCENE. { It required but a moment for the night captain to hurry to the scene | with the patrol wagon and two alds. He found Policeman Smith partly con- ecious and suffering intensely. The wounded man was placed in the patrol wagon under Captain Petersen’s direc- tion and taken to the Recelving Hospi- | tal, from which place the captain or- dered every available man in the de- partment out in citizens’ clothes to pa- trol the district in which the shooting occurred in the hopes of capturing the men. As soon as the wounded man had been cared for Captain Petersen joined Chief of Police Hodgkins and the two took charge of the squad that was searching the district for the escapes. It remained for two lads in the ncigh- | borhood to find, the body of the dead burglar. Fred and Charles Kutz, at- tracted by the shooting and the excite- ment, mixed with the crowd and they found the body of the dead man on the lawn beside the residence of H. J. Kn es, corner of Fourteenth and Oak | streets, two blocks from where the shooting occurred. The man had run two blocks and then dropped beside the Knowles residence, but his partner had continued on his way and made his escape. When found, the body lay partly on one side. When Captain Petersen was notified a hurried search of the pockets revealed many loose cartridges of two sizes, a dirk knife in a sheath attached to his belt. but no revolver. A careful search of the neighborhood resulted in the dis- covery by Policeman Andrews of the revolver where the fleeing burglar had thrown it when trying to make his escape. A minute search was made of the of which the shootin, steps. | ize my forces, and as Colombia lacks | and other governments, practical thing the Latin-Ameri- | a navy, they have completely paralyzed any action, thus sanctioning most scan- dalously gismemberment of the country and establishing a precedent that will insure the same treatment to all other Latin-American republics in a like situation. “As the republic of Panama has al- ready been recognized by the American 1 believe the only can their countries interests can do to safeguard and maintain their | | brotherhood is to order their represen- | tatives at Washington to confer with me and together take friendly action with the American Government to ar- range this delicate question, which I consider equally affects all nations of | our race. “] have telegraphéd a similar senti- ment to Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argen- tina and Brazil. I beg an answer to ‘Washington addressed to Pedro Nelo- shina. “RAFAEL REYES.” RUMOR OF REVOLUTION. Y . State Department Learns of Brewing Discontent at Bogota. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The State Department has received advices from | Minister Beaupre at Bogota, dated No- vember 25, in which he statesthat con- siderable excitement prevails at the Co. lombian capital; that there is much talk of raising an army, but no troops have yet been enlisted, and there are rumors in the city of a revolution in the State of Cauca, directed against the Marroquin government. Rumors have reached the State Department from another source that General Reyes' mission to Washington is pri- marily to try to array opposition Sena- tors against the ratification of the Bu- nau-Varilla-Hay canal treaty. There also is talk of the forma- tion of a combination of South Ameri- can countries directed against the United States. Respecting the coming of General Reyes to Washington, it is said at the State Department that much depends upon the nature of his credentials as to the reception he is given. It seems probable that if he is brought to the Department by the Co- lombian-charge, Dr.- Herran, he will be accorded a respectful hearing. But it is also pointed out that his activities must be confined to lawful channels as an alien, and any attempt on his part Continued on Page 2, Column 1. Continued on Page 2, Column 5. - | “CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—Chained wrist to | the policemen advanced in a circle up- wrist, their hair matted with ‘blood, on the dugout where the three robbers their clothing covered with dust and | Were supposed to be concealed. Dris- 4 oll picked up a chunk of wood and vo beardless boys, Peter Neider- | :;;e:“:ndw;ri::y N andine, sat. to. |Buried it at the dugout. Instantly there . | was a flash, a report, and Driscoll fell, night in the presence of Mayor Harri- | shot through the abdomen. son, Chief of Police O'Neil and Assls(-! The policemen opened fire on the ant Chief Schuettler calmly confessing | dugout, from which shots were now thelr share in a three months’ record | coming thick and fast. While the fire of crime, which has included. eight|Was at its hottest Vandine and Roeski murders, the wounding of five.other rushed out, followed a few minutes men and a long series of robberies. |later by Neldermeyer. The latter ran The two young bandits, neither of |10 the tracks of the Michigan Central whom is over 21 years of age, together | Railroad and, throwing himself flat on with thelr companion, Emil Roeski, | the roadbed, steadied his arm on the who is no older, were captured near |F2il as he kept up a rapid fire with Liverpool, Ind., to-day after a fight in | three revolvers. which they battled against policemen, | BATTLE IN THE SNOW. raflroad detectives, railroad laborers| p ..t ran for the brush, but Van- S armess. e e, 0% | dine retreated slowly, although the atr i |around him was filled with bullets and the young bandits were wounded, but; Dot SeioNELEThe. Sead- | the snow at h'l.l feet was kicked up by T. J. SOVEA, brakeman on the Penn- them. Catching sight of Detective e > Zimmer, who was behind a tree, he sylvania Railroad. s The wounded are: Joseph Driscoll, |Treq, Zimmer Wwent down with a bul- detective on the Chicago police force, shot through abdomen and can live but a short time; Matthew Zimmer, detec- tive on police force, shot in head and arm. Neidermeyer was wounded in the hand by birdshot. Vandine was simi- larly injured, and sustained in addi- tion a flesh wound in the left thigh. Roeski was shot in the right hip. MURDER AND ROBBERY. The three men were wanted by the police for complicity in the murders at the car barns of the Chicago City Rall- way Company on August 30, when two men were killed, a third badly wounded and $2250 stolen from the company. Gustav Marx, who last Saturday night murdered Officer John Quinn, when the policeman endeavored to place him under arrest, confessed that he, in company with these three men, had committed the crimes. at the car barns. The hunt for Vandine, Neider- meyer and Roeski had been hot ever since. Although they knew that the entire police force was looking for them, these three men remained in the city until Wednesday morning. On ‘Wednesday they left Chicago, going to a dugout made by railroad laborers near the tracks of the Michigan Cen- tral road near Millers, Ind. . Last night they spent in another dug- out near Millers station, Ind., and there they were surprised by eight" Chicago policemen this morning. As soon as they were in sight of the place fired again and the second bullet went through Zimmer’s arm. Roeski had by this time disappeared, and Vandine and Neidermeyer, placing run for freedom. The detectives fired constantly, but the bandits escaped. After running about a mile across the country they came to the tracks of the | Pennsylvania road. A switch engine with a train of cars was close at hand, | and, hurrying to it, the men ordered Brakeman Sovea to uncouple the train from the locomotive. He refused and attempted to take Neidermeyer's re- volver from him. The latter instantly sent a bullet through the brakeman's brain, laying him dead in the snow. Springing past Sovea's body the ban- dits mounted the locomotive with re- volvers in hand and ordered the en- gineer to move out in a hurry, which he did, going in the direction of La Porte, Ind. After two miles had been covered the men ordered the engineer to slow up, and, leaping to the ground, disappeared in the woods. The news of the fight at the dugout had spread with great rapidity through the country, and by the time the two panting men rushed up to the locomo- tive 100 farmers and railroad laborers were after them. These were left be- hind with the Chicago detectives, al- though one farmer, armed with a shot- gun, got in his work as the train start- ed away. Catcling sight of Vandine, " Continued on Page 2, Column 5. - EMPEROR'S MALADY 13 INGREASING Kaiser May Have . a Second Op- eration. Special Dispatch to The Call. VIENNA, Nov. 27.—The Wiener All- gemeine Zeitung prints the following dispatch from Berlin reference to Emperor William, which attracts gen- eral attention, especially as the Zeitung often receives semi-official information: “Though there can be no doubt that the operation recently undergone by the Emperor concerned a benignant formation, it must be recognized that the process of healing has not taken the favorable course originally hoped for. It is by no means certain that in the near future the Emperor will under- take a journey south, since it is doubt- ful whether hfs physicians will assume the responsibility of exposing the m« | arch in his present condition to the fa- tigue of a long jourmey. +“In the whole course of the process | of healing hitherto it seems as though there had ar'sen unexpected complica- | tions which very rarely follow the sim- ple operation for singers’ polypus. In court circles there is a certain uneasi- | ness, which, during the last few days, has found expression in talk of the pos- sibility and even the probability of a | new operation. “It is impossible to verify the latter rumor. The Emperor, whose mood re- mains good, has been ordered by his physicians to take the maximum ot | rest, and to spare his vocal organs as | much as possible.” — e | their revolvers in their pockets, made a | VATICAN COMMISSION | WILL CUT EXPENDITURES Trouble in the Palace of the Pope. | ROME, Nov. 27.—The financial 4ifi- pculties of the Vatican are increasing. |1t is ascertained that Pope Leo XIII | left very little property. The interest | on the money deposited by Pope Pius X | with the Rothschild Bank of Vienna amounts to 4,000,000 francs. The annual | contribution of Peter's pence hardly yields 2,000,000, and the ordinary expen- | ditures of the Vatican are about 8§,000,- | 000 franes. | The Pope has appointed a commis- sion to examine the reports of the financiers, with a view of increasing the revenue and reducing the expendi- | tures. e et Arrest Streetcar Passengers. LONDON, Nov. 27.—The North Lon- don authorities have adopted a novel method for suppressing the overcrowd- ing on street cars. Finding that the arrest and fining of conductors was in- sufficient they are now resorting to the arrest of passengers, including women whom the magistrates fine for “aiding and abetting” conductors in contraven~ ing the anti-crowding law.