The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1903, Page 1

wind, changing to A G District San Francisco and vincinity— Fair Tuesday; light northerly westerly. McADIE, Forecaster. Alcazar—“A Poor Relation.” California—*“At the 014 Cross Roads.” Central—“The Counterfeiters.” Columbia—“Way Down East.” Pischer's—“I. 0. U.” @rand—“Over Niagara Falls.” Orpheum—Vaundeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. MRS. LILLIAN HITCHCOCK-COIT TELLS CORONER THE STORY ¥ SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1903. PRICE OF THE KILLING OF MAJOR M'CLUNG BY ALEXANDER GARNETT COLOMBIANS WA FLEET WANT LIFE OF BEAUPRE American Minister to Bogota in Danger. His Assassination Is Urged in Council of Leaders, Republic Is Planning for Guerrilla Warfare on the Isthmus. OLON 30.—Louis Deroux, who was a member of the Colombia of 2 Panat Represe; E on October m the Hay- canal treaty or lose the isthmus the day and who was instru- bringing about the appoint- ¢ General ‘Obaldia as Governor as arrived here from Bo- he started on November ux is a Panamaian, and well-known political con- was subjected to annoy- ronts in Bogota and on na River, where at one passage down & number atened to board the him. The trouble captain cutting the ngs and dropping down gota efforts were made Deroux 10 join the Reyes to the isthmus, but Deroux mmediately Congress closed United contin- ed with mentioned 1ld come down y Beaupre has a the ASSASSINATE BEAUPRE. ULD g0 WO consulting commis- rmed in Bogota. At is Liberals, Conservatives ccording to good g of the com- was repeatedly ust be killed ted States de- retaliation. Wiser iled entire country is General Reyes, ng a big steps in that direction made. Public contribu- ns are being made and decrees are issued reaching to w preparations. Colombia possesses number of good rifles, an ample supply a some artillery of ammunition. of ammunition have been moved in carts from Honda, from Bogota, on the alena River, to Bogota. mbia has not lost the idea of g an effort to regain the isthmus. 1 entertains hopes that General 11l succeed in effecting a satis- ory arrangement in Washington. g this the Colombians, it is be- lieved, will undoubtedly advance on the isthmue, sending troops in small par- ties of 200 to 300 along both coasts suf- ficlently inland to keep their move- | ments secret. On arriving on the bor- ders of Panama they will, it is said begin a guerrilla warfa: 1 v nebid fare, pillaging and | MAY SEND TROOPS BY SEA. Colombla may also, it is alleged, at- 't to trarsport troops by sea, in Il schooners and other such craft, between unimportant and Jittle known P hoping to avoid the .American gunboats and thus helping ‘in the gen- | movement toward Panama, or pos- biy landing troops in the Chiriqui dis- | ct. The Colombians believe they can rry out such a movement withoui the knowledge of the Americans and are confident their soldlers, inured to the ¥ f campaigning and living untry without a commissariat, ach the borders of Panama over- Colombia can mgve troops with- and she can send them into it a hospital corps, with- commissary department, without ansportation and without sh standing the Colombian Gov- ssurances, all of the politi- | ve not qully and unre- | ment’s arties servedly rallied to the support of the | Government in this crisis. The internal political dissensions are slowly grow- | ing more marked. The Liberal rbvolu-l nary element particularly is showing creasing discontent through- out the entire country and a recurrence of the recent revoit at any time within signs of the nex would not surprise those | who are familjar with Colombian af-/ ¥ e e e | Continued on Page 3, Column 2. | | dent |ally herself with Germany to forcibly |xlosure of Cijudad Bolivar and other LINCHERS HANG THIO OF BLAGKS T0 MENGE - ENEZUEL Great Britain Or- ders Ships to La Guayra. | Triple of Negroes in Louisiana. Will Press Demand for | Reopening of the Orinoco. White Man Their Crime. { | | | | Entire West Indian Squad-|Culprits Confess and Are ron to Sail for Repub- Permitted to Offer Up lic’s Coast. a Last Prayer. PR s i e ; SHREVEPORT, La., Nov, 30.—In the PORT OF SPAIN, Tsland of Trinidad, | PFeSence of a crowd composed of 1200 ns, whites and negroes, Phil Da- pe Nov. 30.—The' British West vis, Walter Carter and Clint Thomas, squadron will leave here on Thursday ! a) negroes, were lynchied this after- for La Guayra, Venezuela. The Gov- noon within a short distance of Bel- ernment officials in Caracas assert that | cher, which is twenty miles from the squadron’s visit to La Guayra is in | Shreveport. The men were executed connection with the closing of the|for having participased in the fatal river Orinoco by President Castro to shooting of Robert Adger, a popular foreign trade, which has specially af- business man. fected the interests of Trinidad. The negroes confessed their crime. Bass-Ironside, the British Minister in | They said that they were trying new has protested against | revolvers, and, when Adger appeared Special Dispatch to The Call Indian Caracas, twice ‘Fatal Shooting of a|While Ri %) AON iE 10 Hi5 DEATH Execution Broker E. C. Ewell Killed at San Drops Wife Meets Wagon Convey- ing Her Dyiftg Husband to His Home. QEresil Dispateh “to The Call. SAN MATEO, Noy. 30—While out | riding late this afterfoon, E. C. Ewell, a capitalist and stogk broker of San Francisco, who resides here, was thrown from his horse and almost in- stantly Kkilled. - The accident occurted a little after 5 o'clock. An eye wiiness states that Ewell was riding at @ gallop, when the wind blew his hat eff. In reaching back to catch it he lost his balance and fell to the ground, firiking his head GARG CAASH - AND INJURE PASIENGERS Disastrous Wreck on Los Angeles Railway. Fifte_aen Persons Hurt and Two of Them Fatally. Rear-End Collision Causes Horror in the Southern Metropolis. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1.—Fifteen per- sons were injured, one of them fatally | and another so badly it is impossible to determine whether he will recover, in a rear-end collision between a Whit- Pacific Electric Railway Company at 12:30 o'clock this morning. The accident happened pear the | Whittier junction, south of Slauson avenue, in a dense fog, which prevented the motorman of the Whittier car from tier car and a Long Beach car of the | I + the measure without obtaining a favor- |on the street, they thought it quite able or even polite answer. A note on | natural to turn the weapons upon him. the subject, it is believed, will be pre- 1 No shots were fired by the lynchers, sented to Venezuela while the British | the negroes all being hanged to a single squadron is at La Guayra. {limb of a tree. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Although| Two other negroes under arrest—Sam the State Department has not been in- | Lee and Peter Thomas—were released. formed by the British Government that | Lee proved that he had attempted to it intends to send its West Indian |prevent the negroes shooting Adger, squadron to La Guayra to back up the |and Thomas established the fact that demand on President Castro for the re- | he was too frightened to shoot. opening of Orinoco River ports, which,| The condemned negroes were given he closed to commerce during the last {an opportunity to pray before being revolution there, the report of such in- | hanged. tention is generally credited here. That England would adopt a vigor- ous course in Venezuela has never been considered unlikejy, although | the State - Departmen is confi- she will never again, for of public sentiment at home, —————— Santa Fe Limited in Service. TOPEKA, Kans,, Nov. 30.—The Santa Fe California Limited passenger train was again placed In seryice yesterday | for the season. It will make daily trips. The Santa Fe passenger depart- ment ‘reports the California traffic of the road never so large as this winter jand it is expected to be that way all the season. —— ‘Wagon Road Commissioner Dies. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 30 — Governor Pardee to-day received a telegram from Placerville announcing the death at that place of 8. J. Baker, Lake Tahoe wagon road Commissioner. Baker was appoint- ed by the Governor in July last and his ;;hrs.m would not have expired until May, fear collect claims from Venezuela. The ports on the Orinoco has been extreme- ly hard on British commerce. The closure applies to all commerce, but, on account of the proximity of Trinidad, it | most seriously affects England. Re- peated repregentations have been made to Venezuela by the British Minister in Caracas. The dispatch of a squadron to La Guayra is considered especially signifi- cant and indicative of the English de- sire to press Castro hard. on the hard pavement. He was picked up unconscious and bleeding from In- juries on the head and face. A wagon was procured and he was conveyed to his home, but died before reaching it, and without hdving regained conscious- ness. 7The riderless horse dashed up to Ewell's home, and Mrs. Ewell, becom- ing alarmed, went in. search of her husband. She met the wagon and joined Mr. Ewell just before he ex- pired. Coroner Crowe was sent for and pronounced the death accidental. An examination showed that the skull had been fractured near the right tem- ple. Ewell was 33 years of age, and was married eight years ago to a daughter of the late M. K. Masten, a wealthy railroad operater and real estate own- er of San Francisco. The wife alone survives him. They had no children. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made, but the interment wiil prob- ably be in Cypress Lawn Cemetery on ‘Wednesday. E. C. Ewell was a member of the firm of E. C. Ewell & Co., real estate brokers, at 232 Montgomery street. He ‘, CORONER LELAND TAKING DEPOSITION OF MRS. LILLIAN HITCHCOCK-COIT IN HER ROOM. seeing the car ahead of him and caused him to crash into it at a-speed of more than thirty miles an heur. On the Whittier car in addition to a number of other passengers were fif- teen members of Pacific Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, in uniform, who had been to Whittier to institute a new camp. When the crash came all the passengers in the rear car were hurled forward amid the splintered wod and broken iron and only two persons on the car escaped injury. When the few who were uninjured went to the assistance of the less for- tunate passengers they found nearly all those who were in the rear car piled in a heap near the front door. The L work of rescue was at once begun and as fast as the injured-were taken from the wreck they were laid alongside the track.’ The injured are as follows: ‘J. W. Bly, 3019 Maple avenue, right leg crushed. G. W. Arey, 309 San Pedro street, in- ternal injuries. O. C. Cortez, 1428 Lemoyne street, both legs broken. Others less seriously injured are: H. married Miss Jennie Masten, sister of | W. Louche, M. T. Louche, A. J. Harsh- Joseph M. Masten, receiving teller’ of the Crocker-Woolworth National Bank of this city. He was a Stanford grad- uate 8 berger, 1. J. Herbert, D. E. Devilbiss, T. B. Sutton, J. D. Jones, Pasadena; J. C. Roberts, Charles Ellery and James Kincald. SAYS PRISONER HAD _NO CAUSE TO SHOOT | Witness Recounts Details of the Tragedy. Gives Testimony at Her Room in Hotel. an Hitchcoek- presence Major J. W. McClung was fafally shot last Wednesday afternoon y Alexander Garnett while in Mrs. ts at the Palace Hotel, iently recovered yesterday to | | give her de ion to C || Dr de Mrs. C informed L | that while able to atte | Dis- | trict Attor 1s also pres- Mrs. Coit and H. Cres- well, was also in the room to watch his | | client’s inter: | Mrs. Coit di sitate in giving I'| her evid a | she told ¢ took place | | }in her .pr nce was candid and con- | vincing. shot Major in bed, but ng the ques- r Leland and District | | she sat up whil | tions Attorney Byin At times she of Coror betrayed the nervous fstrain under which she was suffering, but she brave t through the or- deal of the examination. 1 POINTED 0UT LOCATIONS. | In answering the questions of the Coroner and District Attorney Mrs. Coit fllustrated ence by point- ing out the locations in the room where Garnett and his victim stood at she time of the tragedy last Wednesday. Save for the darkened electric light that hung over the Head of the bed upon which M reclined, the apartment was in semi-darkness while the investigation was held. A trained | | nurse was in the room, but her ser- | | vices were not required during the two hours occupied in taking the te: ny | of the eye-witness to the killing of Major M ng by Garnett. | | While the evidence of Mrs. Coit only Coit did | not differ materially from the state- | ment she made to Detective Byram on i the night of the shooting it brought cut | one prominent fact that w be difi- | cult for Garnett to explain away. | Mrs. Coit erday stated more than i once that Garnett had pulled a revoiver | from his vest before Major McClung ever laid his ha on the man who { afterward to s life. | Garnett on the night of his arrest | claimed that McClung had tried to throw him out of Mrs. Coit's apart- | ments, that he drew his revolver to de- | | fend himself and that the weapon ex- 1 | ploded in the struggle. Mrs. Coit flatly \ !} | contradiets this After be- ing sworn by Cor gave her name, an to recount the shooting ¢ by Garnett. GARNETT'S EYES BLAZED. “It was last Wednesday,” she said, “about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Ma- jor McClung ' was visiting me. He brought me a message from his wife. We were seated in this room. I had my back to the door. The door was slightly open leading into the hallway of my apartments. “Major McClung suddenly smiled and said, ‘Here is Garnett.’ I turned and saw Garnett standing in the doorway. He had his hat on and his overcoat on his arm. “Garnett came into the room. and 1 said to him, “What do you want? He had a most fearful expression on his face and I would not have known him ST SUMS N BEBHTES FOR WATSDN CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Investigations before Bankruptcy Referee Wean to- | day cast some light on the ‘“secret| profits” amassed by James S. Watson, | g:l;:!e‘ r():reside:; of the firm of FPorter |, a1 not him on the street. His eyes .’ Company. were blazing and he had his teeth Testimony given by George B. Rob- ‘Clenchpd. When he came in " said, bins of Armour & Co. showed that| . more than $700,000 had been pald fo| ‘o ;‘:":w};";';:swe, S bt ok Watson in the last six years as rebates | mgx Sndt told hiss ha tae Ghutlsnnd ;n l;:lggeratngchargesCmade by the to go away, but he told Major McClung ru rowers’ Express Company. ¢ or Attorney Bach, “whe is conducting“n 1“‘30"1:0 r(;(:m!. r:”l:‘(:dn:;“r::’l.‘ the examination, announced his inten- Fv\(:ult:m my .gues!. Garnett again told tion of placing J. Ogden Armour on | v 1 the stand on Thursday to obtain adai- | (16 ™aior 1 :;:;;r'(’:fr‘;",;’::;, e 1 tional evidence and of then inquiring | 285%™ A5XEC 1€ FE L Homat he could into possible rebates made by railroads T "‘e"‘ o I was going to dress for on transportation tariffs. Robbins sup- | 20t Fém& :’ :5 S daicd him what he plied transcripts of express company’s | A/NDeT, an ahxfl SRS T an ive’ for accounts with Watson and presented | ::":::;0;? S ey records showing large loans made to = ‘Watson personally by the Armours. SLAYER DREW HIS PIS'?OL It developed that documents that had ! Coroner Leéland—Where did Garnett becn relied upon to show the number of | stand at this time? cars handled for the Porter Brothers Mre. Coit—He was standing just in- Company since 189 had been destroyed. | side the door and the major and my- Robbins explained that such records | self were standing in the middle of the accumulated too fast to permit'of their | room near the center fable. preservation. Coroner Leland—What Armour & Co.’s books showed that |then? out of eight large loans made to Wat- Mrs. Coit—Something that Garnett son but one had been written in the|said or did caused Major McClung and name of Porter Brothers & Co. myself to approach him. I cannot re- “We always regarded the company | member just what it was. It may have a8 a one-man concern,” said Robbins, | been the act of Garnett closing the door “and considered Watson's security as good as could be desired.” took place 3 S Continued on Page 3, Column 4